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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

31 July - 6 August 2022, Prague, Czech Republic

Full Program | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday

Times in program corresponds to Prague time zone (UTC/GMT +2 hours).
 
Sunday, 31 July 2022

17:00 - 21:00 Registration and welcome refreshment
Location: Pyramida Hotel - lobby

 
Monday, 1 August 2022

07:50 - 8:20 Opening address
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

08:20 - 9:50 1 session: Nonequilibrum physics and thermodynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
08:20 - 08:50 Maciej Andrzej Lewenstein
To thermalize or not to thermalize, that is the question
08:50 - 09:20 Jianshu Cao
Symmetry in non-equilibrium quantum processes
09:20 - 09:50 Raffaele Salvia, Martí Perarnau-Llobet, Géraldine Haack, Nicolas Brunner, and Stefan Nimmrichter
Quantum advantage in the charging of batteries by repeated interactions

09:50 - 10:10 Coffee break

10:10 - 12:10 2 session: General physics, gravitation
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
10:10 - 10:40 Eve Bodnia, Vlad Isenbaev, Kellan Colburn, Joe Swearngin, and Dirk Bouwmeester
Conformal cyclic cosmology signatures and anomalies of the CMB sky
10:40 - 11:10 Petr Hořava
Non-equilibrium string theory and the Schwinger-Keldysh time contour
11:10 - 11:40 Hartmut Abele
Gravity resonance spectroscopy, and a search for Lorentz violation, beyond-Riemann and entropic gravity
11:40 - 12:10 Ron Folman
Realization of a complete Stern-Gerlach interferometer: Towards a test of quantum gravity

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:10 3 session - A parallel: Quantum thermodynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
13:00 - 13:30 Vlatko Vedral (online)
Quantum cooling activated by coherently-controlled thermalisation
13:30 - 14:00 Andreas Wacker (online)
Non-resonant transitions: Insights from quantum-thermodynamics
14:00 - 14:30 Konstantin Dorfman and Qutubuddin Md (online)
Quantum heat engine perspective on controlling optical measurements with quantum light
14:30 - 14:50 David Edward Bruschi
Quantum thermodynamics of localized relativistic quantum systems
14:50 - 15:10 Ilana Bogod and Saar Rahav
Singular optimal solutions of stochastic pumps

13:00 - 15:10 3 session - B parallel: Quantum transport
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
13:00 - 13:30 Meng Xu, Jürgen Thomas Stockburger, Malte Krug, and Joachim Ankerhold
The different guises of hierarchical equations of motion
13:30 - 14:00 Michael Thoss
Simulation of quantum transport using the hierarchical equations of motion method
14:00 - 14:30 Doron Cohen
Breakdown of adiabaticity in the quasi-static limit
14:30 - 14:50 Andre Erpenbeck, Emanuel Gull, and Guy Cohen
Steady state formulation of inchworm Quantum Monte Carlo
14:50 - 15:10 Michael Knap (online)
Probing finite-temperature observables in quantum simulators with short-time dynamics

13:00 - 15:10 3 session - C parallel: Spin dynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C
13:00 - 13:30 Gergely Zaránd, Miklós Werner, Pascu Moca, Örs Legeza, Balázs Dóra, and Márton Kormos
Dynamics of negative temperature hadron formation in repulsive SU(n) Hubbard models
13:30 - 14:00 Peter Schmitteckert
Automated generation of spin-bath Hamiltonians for a wide range of interacting systems
14:00 - 14:30 Thore Posske and Michael Thorwart
The power of the boundary: Creating quantum spin helices, quantum skyrmions, and measuring one-dimensional topological superconductivity without relying on Majorana modes
14:30 - 14:50 Aires Ferreira
Emergent spin-orbit phenomena in designer 2D van der Waals materials
14:50 - 15:10 Emil Viñas Boström, Angel Rubio, and Claudio Verdozzi (online)
Microscopic theory of ultrafast optical skyrmion excitation in magnetic thin films

15:10 - 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 - 18:00 4 session: Foundations of quantum physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
15:30 - 16:00 Ana María Cetto and Luis de la Peña (online)
The quantization of radiation: role of the vacuum field
16:00 - 16:30 Wolfgang Schleich
The Riemann zeta function and quantum mechanics
16:30 - 17:00 Yaroslav Herasymenko, Igor Gornyi, and Yuval Gefen
Passive vs. active quantum steering
17:00 - 17:30 Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova and Yoav Afik
Quantum information with top quarks at the LHC
17:30 - 18:00 Gregor Weihs, Julian Münzberg, Franz Draxl, Yusuf Karli, Robert Keil, Christoph Dittel, Gabriel Dufour, Andreas Buchleitner, Alexander Szameit, Saimon Filipe Covre da Silva, and Armando Rastelli
Multiparticle Quantum Interferometry

18:00 - 19:00 Free time and transfer to Wallenstein Palace

19:00 - 22:00 Welcome party
Location: Wallenstein Palace and its Garden

19:00 - 19:30 Opening

19:30 - 22:00 Welcome party in the Wallenstein Palace Garden

 
Tuesday, 2 August 2022

07:50 - 9:50 1 session: Physics of superfluids
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
07:50 - 08:20 Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato
Production and characterization of a far from equilibrium BEC: turbulence and universality
08:20 - 08:50 Fernando Sols, Jesús Mateos, Greg Pieplow, and Charles E. Creffield
Superfluidity from correlations in driven boson systems
08:50 - 09:20 Nir Navon
Ultracold Fermi gases in a box
09:20 - 09:50 Frédéric Chevy
Fermi gases in quantum wires

09:50 - 10:10 Coffee break

10:10 - 12:10 2 session: Thermodynamics, molecular machines
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
10:10 - 10:40 Andrew N. Jordan
Quantum engines based on entanglement and continuous measurement
10:40 - 11:10 Jens Eisert
Quantum field thermal machines
11:10 - 11:40 Jennifer Koch, Keerthy Menon, Eloisa Cuestas, Thomas Fogarty, Sian Barbosa, Eric Lutz, Thomas Busch, and Artur Widera
Many-body effects in quantum engines
11:40 - 12:10 Liliana Arrachea
Energy dynamics, heat production and heat-work conversion with qubits

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:10 3 session - A parallel: Many body physics, quantum transport
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
13:00 - 13:30 Sergey N. Shevchenko, Oleh V. Ivakhnenko, and Franco Nori (online)
Quantum control via Landau-Zener-Stuckelberg-Majorana transitions
13:30 - 14:00 Akimitsu Kirikoshi and Takafumi Kita (online)
Asymmetry of critical exponents above and below second-order transitions with continuous symmetries
14:00 - 14:30 Alexander G. Bauer, Benedikt Scharf, Laurens W. Molenkamp, Ewelina M. Hankiewicz, and Björn Sothmann
Quantized phase-coherent heat transport of counterpropagating Majorana modes
14:30 - 14:50 Graham Kells, Dganit Meidan, and Alessandro Romito
Measurement-induced topological transition in a free fermion model
14:50 - 15:10 Llorenç Serra
Trivial and topological confinements in bilayer graphene

13:00 - 15:10 3 session - B parallel: Molecular junctions
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
13:00 - 13:30 Oren Tal
Quantum flicker noise demonstrated in molecular junctions
13:30 - 14:00 Francesco M. D. Pellegrino, Giuseppe Falci, and Elisabetta Paladino
Supercurrent noise in short ballistic graphene Josephson junctions
14:00 - 14:30 Gianmichele Blasi, Fabio Taddei, Liliana Arrachea, Matteo Carrega, and Alessandro Braggio
Nonlocal thermoelectricity in topological Josephson junctions
14:30 - 14:50 Olivier Maillet, Diego Subero, Dmitry Golubev, and Jukka Pekola
Anomalous photonic heat transport across a Josephson junction in a highly dissipative environment
14:50 - 15:10 Jerome Rech, Giacomo Rebora, Thibaut Jonckheere, Dario Ferraro, Benoit Grémaud, Maura Sassetti, and Thierry Martin
Delta-T noise in quantum Hall junctions

13:00 - 15:10 3 session - C parallel: Quantum transport, superconductivity
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C
13:00 - 13:30 Vivien Perrin, Marcello Civelli, and Pascal Simon
Shot noise in superconducting sub gap states
13:30 - 14:00 Christian Kohlfürst, Friedemann Queisser, and Ralf Schützhold
Dynamically assisted tunneling in the impulse regime
14:00 - 14:30 Ambroise Peugeot, Gerbold Ménard, Iouri Moukharski, Carles Altimiras, Denis Vion, Daniel Esteve, Ciprian Padurariu, Björn Kubala, Joachim Ankerhold, and Fabien Portier
Entangled beams and photon multiplets from a dc-biased superconducting circuit
14:30 - 14:50 Thibaut Jonckheere, Jérôme Rech, Benoît Grémaud, and Thierry Martin
Anyonic statistics revealed by the Hong-Ou-Mandel dip for fractional excitations
14:50 - 15:10 Marios Kounalakis, Gerrit E. W. Bauer, and Yaroslav M. Blanter (online)
Analog quantum control of magnonic cat states on-a-chip by a superconducting qubit

15:10 - 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 - 17:30 4 session - A parallel: Many body physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
15:30 - 16:00 Stephanie M Reimann (online)
Droplet-superfluid compounds in binary bosonic mixtures
16:00 - 16:30 Yoram Alhassid, Shasta Ramachandran, and Scott Jensen (online)
Cold atomic Fermi gases in two dimensions: superfluidity and pseudogap effects in the strongly interacting regime
16:30 - 17:00 Alexandre Zagoskin (online)
Towards qualitative theory of large quantum coherent structures
17:00 - 17:30 Radim Filip
Quantum non-Gaussian optics and mechanics

15:30 - 17:30 4 session - B parallel: Physics of quantum information
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
15:30 - 16:00 Erik Fitzke, Maximilian Tippmann, and Thomas Walther
A scalable quantum key distribution network based on time-bin entanglement
16:00 - 16:30 Yasuhiro Utsumi, Yasuchika Ito, Dimitry Golubev, and Ferdinand Peper
Computation time and thermodynamic uncertainty relation of Brownian circuits
16:30 - 17:00 Martin Ringbauer
Quantum computing and simulation with high-dimensional systems
17:00 - 17:30 Wister Wei Huang, Chuyao Tong, Lisa Maria Gächter, Rebekka Garreis, Annika Kurzmann, Jonas Daniel Gerber, Max Josef Ruckriegel, Benedikt Kratochwil, Folkert Kornelis de Vries, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Thomas Ihn, and Klaus Ensslin
Quantum information processing with graphene quantum dots

15:30 - 17:30 4 session - C parallel: General physics, quantum structures
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C
15:30 - 16:00 Joseph Maciejko (online)
Hyperbolic band theory
16:00 - 16:30 Rémi Lefevre, Krissia de Zawadzki, and Grégoire Ithier
Many body density of states of a system of spinless fermions
16:30 - 17:00 Parveen Kumar, Kyrylo Snizhko, Yuval Gefen, and Bernd Rosenow
Optimized steering: Quantum state engineering and exceptional points

17:30 - 19:20 Poster session and refreshment
Location: Pyramida Hotel - first floor

19:20 - 20:00 Free time