Full Program | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday
Times in program corresponds to
Prague time zone (UTC/GMT +2 hours).
| Thursday, 15 July 2021 | |
| 13:00 - 18:00 | Session for testing zoom connections |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Testing period for speakers from Australia and Far East |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Testing period for speakers from Europe, Middle East and Africa |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Testing period for speakers from America |
| Friday, 16 July 2021 | |
| 13:00 - 18:00 | Session for testing zoom connections |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Testing period for speakers from Australia and Far East |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Testing period for speakers from Europe, Middle East and Africa |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Testing period for speakers from America |
| Sunday, 18 July 2021 | |
| 13:00 - 16:00 | Final testing |
| Monday, 19 July 2021 | |
| 08:00 - 8:30 | Opening addresses |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | 1 session: Quantum optics |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Franco Nori Quantum Nonlinear Optics without Photons, how to excite two or more atoms simultaneously with a single photon, and other unusual properties of ultra-strongly-coupled QED systems |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Travis J. Baker, Seyed N. Saadatmand, Dominic W. Berry, and Howard M. Wiseman The Heisenberg Limit to Laser Coherence |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Warwick P Bowen, Catxere A Casacio, Lars S Madsen, Alex Terrasson, Muhammad Waleed, Kai Barnscheidt, Boris Hage, and Michael A Taylor Absolute quantum advantage in light microscopy |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Yuval Gefen Measurement-Induced Quantum Steering |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Break |
| 10:50 - 13:10 | 2 session: Many body physics, Graphene |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Gopi Nath Daptary, Eyal Walach, Efrat Shimshoni, and Aviad Frydman Superconducting Dirac point in proximetized graphene |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Llorenç Serra, Nassima Benchtaber, and David Sanchez Scattering of topological kink-antikink states in bilayer graphene |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | T.L. van den Berg, A. De Martino, M.R. Calvo, and D. Bercioux Volkov-Pankratov states in topological graphene nanoribbons |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Folkert Kornelis de Vries, Elias Portoles, Giulia Zheng, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Thomas Ihn, Klaus Ensslin, and Peter Rickhaus Superconducting devices in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | David Sanchez Andreev drag effect in Coulomb coupled quantum dots |
| 12:30 - 12:50 | Moshe Schechter On the nature of tunneling two-level systems in amorphous solids, and the mitigation of their deleterious effects in superconducting circuits |
| 12:50 - 13:10 | Hannes Weisbrich, Raffael Klees, Gianluca Rastelli, and Wolfgang Belzig Higher-dimensional topology in multi-terminal superconducting structures |
| 13:10 - 14:00 | Break |
| 14:00 - 15:20 | 3 session: Quantum thermodynamics |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Jianshu Cao Thermodynamics and Symmetry of Driven Open Quantum Systems |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Doron Cohen Breakdown of quantum-to-classical correspondence for diffusion in high temperature thermal environment |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Peter D. Keefe Thermodynamics of Mesoscopic Superconductors |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Break |
| 15:40 - 17:10 | 4 session: Foundations of quantum physics |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 15:40 - 16:10 | Raphael Kaubruegger, Denis V. Vasilyev, Marius Schulte, Klemens Hammerer, and Peter Zoller Quantum Variational Optimization of Ramsey Interferometry and Atomic Clocks |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | Arkady Plotnitsky “The Observations Obtained under the Specified Circumstances:” What quantum measurement is, and what it is not. |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Ehtibar Dzhafarov Quantum contextuality: the most general definition? |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Break |
| 17:30 - 19:30 | 5 session: Foundations of quantum physics |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Gerard ’t Hooft Specific Models for Fast Hidden Variables, FreeWill, and all that |
| 18:00 - 18:30 | Gregor Weihs, Sebastian Gstir, Edmond Chan, Robert Keil, Toni Eichelkraut, and Alexander Szameit Multipath Interference Tests of Quantum Mechanics |
| 18:30 - 18:50 | Alex J. Schimmoller, Gerard McCaul, Hartmut Abele, and Denys I. Bondar Decoherence-Free Entropic Gravity: Model and Experimental Tests |
| 18:50 - 19:10 | Ana María Cetto and Luis de la Peña The physics behind quantum operators |
| 19:10 - 19:30 | Luis de la Peña, Ana María Cetto, and Andrea Valdés-Hernández How fast is a quantum jump? |
| Tuesday, 20 July 2021 | |
| 08:30 - 10:20 | 1 session: Biophysics |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | William A. T. Gibby, Miroslav L. Barabash, Carlo Guardiani, Olena A. Fedorenko, Stephen K. Roberts, Dmitry G. Luchinsky, and Peter V. E. McClintock Ionic Coulomb blockade and selectivity in biological ion channels |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | David Seiferth, Peter Sollich, and Stefan Klumpp Coarse-graining discrete stochastic models of biochemical systems |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Hong-Guang Duan, Ajay Jha, Lipeng Chen, Vandana Tiwari, Richard J. Cogdell, Khuram Ashraf, Valentyn I. Prokhorenko, Michael Thorwart, and R.J. Dwayne Miller Vibronic quantum coherence at ultralow temperatures in photosynthetic protein complexes |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Yutaka Shikano Quantum Nanodiamond Thermometry for Biological System |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Break |
| 10:40 - 13:00 | 2 session: Hall effect, Thermodynamics |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Jakub Spiechowicz and Jerzy Luczka Quantum analogue of energy equipartition theorem |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Konstantin Dorfman Incoherent control of optical signals: Quantum-heat-engine approach |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Jiří J. Mareš, Václav Špička, and Pavel Hubík Hall Effect and the problem of "hidden momentum" |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Marie Ohuchi, Hikaru Ueki, Ezekiel Sambo Joshua, Wataru Kohno, Hiroki Morita, and Takafumi Kita Charging and Thermal Hall Effect in Superconductors |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Konrad Viebahn, Joaquín Minguzzi, Zijie Zhu, Anne-Sophie Walter, Kilian Sandholzer, and Tilman Esslinger Thouless pumping in a Floquet-driven lattice |
| 12:20 - 12:40 | Masayuki Hashisaka, Thibaut Jonckheere, Takafumi Akiho, Satoshi Sasaki, Jérôme Rech, Thierry Martin, and Koji Muraki Andreev reflection of fractional quantum Hall quasiparticles |
| 12:40 - 13:00 | Jerome Rech, Thibaut Jonckheere, Benoit Gremaud, and Thierry Martin Negative Delta-T Noise in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Break |
| 14:00 - 15:20 | 3 session: Physics of quantum information |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Steven Mark Girvin Using Boson Sampling for Efficient Simulation of Molecular Spectra on a Small Quantum Processor |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | James Freericks, Jia Chen, and Hai-Ping Cheng Strategies for quantum chemistry on a quantum computer using a factorized form of the unitary coupled cluster method |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Sebastian Deffner Energetic cost of Hamiltonian quantum gates |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Break |
| 15:40 - 17:20 | 4 session: Nonequilibrium statistical physics |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 15:40 - 16:10 | Erik Schroedter, Michael Bonitz, and Jan-Philip Joost Towards many-body quantum dynamics based on fluctuations |
| 16:10 - 16:40 | Hao Lin, Hossein Mahzoon, Arnau Rios, and Pawel Danielewicz Dynamics of Correlated Systems with Nonequilibrium Green's Functions |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Michael Galperin A Green’s function perspective on the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of open quantum systems strongly coupled to baths |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Michael Ridley Time-dependent electromagnetics of molecular junctions |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | Break |
| 17:40 - 19:20 | 5 session: Many body physics |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 17:40 - 18:10 | Xin H H Zhang and Harold U Baranger Driven-Dissipative Phase Transition in a Kerr Oscillator |
| 18:10 - 18:40 | Dietrich Belitz and Theodore R Kirkpatrick Soft modes in Fermi liquids |
| 18:40 - 19:00 | Thomas Vojta, Martin Puschmann, Jack Crewse, Joao C. Getelina, and Jose A. Hoyos Collective modes at the superfluid - Mott glass transition |
| 19:00 - 19:20 | Vincent P. Flynn, Emilio Cobanera, and Lorenza Viola Manifestation of topology in metastable driven-dissipative bosonic systems |
| 19:20 - 20:00 | Free time |
| 20:00 - 20:45 | Concert of classical and jazz-inspired music |
| Location: | Václav Trojan's studio and live on internet |
| Wednesday, 21 July 2021 | |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | 1 session: Quantum Thermodynamics |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Stephen M. Barnett Thermofields for Quantum Thermodynamics |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Maciej Andrzej Lewenstein From Generalized Resource Theories of Quantum Thermodynamics to Novel Quantum Thermometry |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Jens Eisert Quantum field thermal machines |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Gershon Kurizki, Tomas Opatrny, and Avijit Misra Unitary and Non-Unitary Few-Mode Heat Machines |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Break |
| 10:50 - 12:50 | 2 session: Simulations |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Jürgen T. Stockburger A novel quantum simulation method for complex system-reservoir dynamics |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Peter Schmitteckert Cluster Embedding Schemes |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Christian Kokail Characterizing Quantum Many-Body States via Entanglement Hamiltonian Learning |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Jiri Minar, Bart van Voorden, and Kareljan Schoutens Kink dynamics and quantum simulation of supersymmetric lattice Hamiltonians |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Ian J. David, Solomon A. Uriri, Filip A. Wudarski, Ilya Sinayskiy, Mark Tame, and Francesco Petruccione Quantum Simulation of Markovian and non-Markovian channel addition on NISQ devices and in the Quantum Optics Lab |
| 12:30 - 12:50 | Gediminas Kirsanskas, Martin Franckie, Maitane M Basagoiti, Patrick P Potts, and Andreas Wacker PERLind, a versatile approach to model bath coupling in quantum kinetics |
| 12:50 - 14:00 | Break |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | 3 session: Poster Session |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | 4 Session: Physics of superfluids |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Fernando Sols, Jesús Mateos, Eduardo Bernal, Gregor Pieplow, and Charles E. Creffield Superfluidity from correlations |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Stephanie M Reimann Effects beyond mean-field in bosonic quantum systems |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Yoram Alhassid, Scott Jensen, Shasta Ramachandran, and Christopher N Gilbreth The thermodynamics of the strongly interacting cold atomic Fermi gas in the crossover from BEC to BCS |
| 17:30 - 17:50 | Break |
| 17:50 - 19:40 | 5 session: Physics of superfluids, Foundations of quantum physics |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 17:50 - 18:20 | Aneta Stefanovska, Hala Siddiq, Kostyantyn Nasyedkin, Kimitoshi Kono, Dmitry Zmeev, Peter V. E. McClintock, and Yuri A. Pashkin Non-Equilibrium Oscillatory Dynamics of Electrons on the Surface of Liquid Helium |
| 18:20 - 18:50 | Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato Quantum Turbulence in atomic superfluid: characteristics and presence of universality |
| 18:50 - 19:20 | Ernst M. Rasel Quantum gases in free-fall |
| 19:20 - 19:40 | Andrei Khrennikov Getting rid of nonlocality from quantum physics through Bohr's complementarity |
| Thursday, 22 July 2021 | |
| 08:30 - 10:20 | 1 Session: Nonequlibrium statistical physics |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Philipp Heinen, Aleksandr N. Mikheev, Christian M. Schmied, Paul Wittmer, Carlo Ewerz, and Thomas Gasenzer Universal dynamics far from equilibrium |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Francesco Petruccione Open quantum systems on quantum computers |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Mikko Möttönen, Roope Kokkoniemi, Jean-Philipper Girard, Arto Viitanen, Kassius Kohvakkka, Timm Mörstedt, Matti Silveri, Maté Jenei, Vasilii Sevriuk, Kuan Yen Tan, Dibyendu Hazra, Antti Laitinen, Joonas Govenius, Russell Evan Lake, Antti Karjasilta, Iiro Sallinen, Visa Vesterinen, Matti Partanen, Ji Yu Tan, Kok Wai Chan, Wei Liu, Pertti Hakonen, Suman Kundu, Jan Goetz, Leif Grönberg, Tapio Ala-Nissilä, Vasilii Vadimov, and Valtteri Lahtinen Experiments on open quantum systems made of superconducting qubits with tunable coupling to their environment |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Zubair Iftikhar, Müller Jonas, Philippe Joyez, Patrice Roche, and Carles Altimiras Experimental test of Kubo relation in a non-linear quantum conductor driven out of equilibrium |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Break |
| 10:40 - 12:40 | 2 Session: Quantum liquids, Casimir force |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Jia Wang, Peter Hannaford, and Bryan J Dalton Discrete Time Crystals in Ultracold Quantum Gases |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Neill Lambert, Mauro Cirio, Shahnawaz Ahmed, Po-chen Kuo, and Franco Nori Pseudo-modes for bosons and fermions |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Kensuke Kobayashi Three-body correlations in nonlinear response of correlated quantum liquid |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Gergely Zaránd, András Grabarits, Izabella Lovas, and Márton Kormos Quantum work statistics in chaotic and disordered Fermi liquids |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Yigal Meir Measuring entropies of exotic quasi-particles? |
| 12:20 - 12:40 | Mauro Antezza Casimir torque and force on gratings |
| 12:40 - 13:30 | Break |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | 3 Session: Biophysics |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Felix Ritort Information-to-measurement conversion in DNA pulling experiments with feedback: from protocols to strategies |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Arnab Pal, Shlomi Reuveni, and Saar Rahav Uncertainty relation for enzymes, resetting systems, and other processes with irreversible transitions |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Alexandre Zagoskin Quantum entanglement of living organisms |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Philip Hemmer Biosensing applications of quantum emitters in diamond and phosphors |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Break |
| 15:20 - 17:00 | 4 Session: General physics |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Georgi Gary Rozenman, Freyja Ullinger, Lev Shemer, Matthias Zimmermann, Maxim A. Efremov, Wolfgang P. Schleich, Denys I. Bondar, and Ady Arie Gravitational and Quantum Mechanical Phenomena in Surface Gravity Water Waves |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Kimball A. Milton, Yang Li, and Prachi Parashar Negative Casimir Entropies and their Implications |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Roland E Allen Predictions of a fundamental statistical picture, including experimental signatures of a new dark matter WIMP |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen The interior of astrophysical black holes: no singularity, just standard model physics? |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Break |
| 17:20 - 18:50 | 5 Session: Quantum Optics |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 17:20 - 17:50 | Hui Cao Controlling nonlinear dynamics of complex lasers |
| 17:50 - 18:20 | A. Douglas Stone, William R. Sweeney, Chia Wei Hsu, Kabish Wisal, and Zeyu Wang Reflectionless Excitation of Arbitrary Photonic Structures: A General Theory |
| 18:20 - 18:50 | Mark Dykman Resonant time-symmetry breaking in coupled oscillators |
| 18:50 - 19:30 | Free time |
| 19:30 - 21:00 | Concert of classical music |
| Location: | Prague Castle - St. Vitus Cathedral and live on internet |
| Friday, 23 July 2021 | |
| 08:30 - 10:20 | 1 Session: Many body physics, Spins |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Amnon Aharony, Ora Entin-Wohlman, and Yasuhiro Utsumi Breaking Time-Reversal Symmetry and Spin Selection in chiral molecules |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Ora Entin-Wohlman, Robert I Shekhter, Mats Jonson, and Amnon Aharony Magnetization generated by microwave-induced Rashba interaction |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | E.K.U. Gross Non-adiabatic Berry connection, the mediator of energy, momentum, and angular-momentum transfer between electrons and nuclei |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Yasuhiro Utsumi, Ora Entin-Wohlman, and Amnon Aharony Spin selectivity through time-reversal symmetric helical junctions |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Break |
| 10:40 - 13:00 | 2 Session: Quantum thermodynamics |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Lea Bresque, Patrice Camati, Spencer Rogers, Kater Murch, Andrew Jordan, and Alexia Auffèves Two-qubit engine fueled by entanglement and local measurements |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Daniel Mayer, Eric Lutz, and Artur Widera Experimental verification of a reversed Clausius inequality in a closed system |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Paolo Abiuso and Marti Perarnau-Llobet Optimal cycles for finite-time Carnot engines |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Rafael Sánchez, Cosimo Gorini, and Geneviève Fleury Interference-induced extrinsic thermoelectrics |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Artur Widera Quantum probes and quantum engines realized via individual impurities immersed in an ultracold bath. |
| 12:20 - 12:40 | Giuseppe Falci, Luigi Giannelli, Giuliano Benenti, Alessandro Ridolfo, Simone Montangero, and Elisabetta Paladino Quantum operations in ultrastrongly coupled quantum networks |
| 12:40 - 13:00 | Bibek Bhandari, Paolo Andrea Erdman, Rosario Fazio, Elisabetta Paladino, and Fabio Taddei Thermal rectification through a nonlinear quantum resonator |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Break |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | 3 Session: Quantum optics |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Farit V. Vagizov, Xiwen Zhang, Yevgeny V. Radyonychev, Ilias R. Khairulin, Vladimir A. Antonov, Yuri V. Shvyd'ko, and Olga Kocharovskaya Quantum optics with ultra-narrow nuclear resonances |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Norbert Kroo and Peter Racz Plasmon assisted Cooper pair formation at room temperature |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Yuri Rostovtsev, Brian Squires, Daniel Brown, and Arup Neogy Quantum control and coherence in 2D materials |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Yuri Rostovtsev, Billie DeLuca, Colin Roy, and Anil Patnaik Dispersion of a Single Atom Experienced by Single Photon |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Break |
| 15:50 - 17:20 | 4 session: Quantum optics, Nonequilibrium statistical physics |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Ben Lang and Andrew Armour Complex Resonances in Josephson Photonics |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Matthias Zimmermann, Maxim A Efremov, Wolfgang P Schleich, Jeffrey P Lee, and Frank A Narducci On the way to a demonstration of a T-cubed atom interferometer |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Radim Filip Highly non-Gaussian quantum physics |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Lea F Santos, Francisco Perez-Bernal, and Jonathan Torres-Herrera Speck of chaos |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | Break |
| 17:40 - 19:00 | 5 Session: Many body systems |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |
| 17:40 - 18:10 | Joseph Maciejko and Steven Rayan Hyperbolic band theory |
| 18:10 - 18:40 | Benjamin Ashwell, Sai Ramakrishna, and Tamar Seideman Quantum Rotational Coherences in Complex Media |
| 18:40 - 19:00 | Avik Ghosh Exploiting topology and strong interactions in electronics |
| 19:00 - 19:30 | Closing Remarks |
| Location: | Virtual Zoom Session |