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Times in program corresponds to
Prague time zone (UTC/GMT +2 hours).
| 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? |