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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

18-24 July 2021, Prague, Czech Republic

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
chairperson: Václav Špička

08:30 - 10:30 1 session: Quantum optics
Location: Virtual Zoom Session
chairperson: Andrew Armour
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
chairperson: Amnon Aharony
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
chairperson: Theo Nieuwenhuizen
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
chairperson: Doron Cohen
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
chairperson: Arkady Plotnitsky
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
chairperson: Aneta Stefanovska
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
chairperson: Ora Entin-Wohlman
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
chairperson: Elisabetta Paladino
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
chairperson: Andreas Wacker
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
chairperson: Steven Girvin
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
chairperson: Konstantin Dorfman
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
chairperson: Francesco Petruccione
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
chairperson:

16:00 - 17:30 4 Session: Physics of superfluids
chairperson: Peter McClintock
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
chairperson: Stephanie Reimann, Fernando Sols
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
chairperson: Giuseppe Falci
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
chairperson: Fernando Sols
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
chairperson: Stefan Klumpp
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
chairperson: Peter Keefe
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
chairperson: Frank Narducci
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
chairperson: Yuval Gefen
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
chairperson: Jürgen Stockburger
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
chairperson: Douglas Stone
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
chairperson: Anil Patnaik
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
chairperson: Andrew Armour
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
chairperson: Václav Špička