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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

18-24 July 2021, Prague, Czech Republic

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