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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).
 
Monday, 1 August 2022

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

08:20 - 9:50 1 session: Nonequilibrum physics and thermodynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Joachim Ankerhold
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
chairperson: Wolfgang Schleich
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
chairperson: Stefan Nimmrichter
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
chairperson: James Freericks
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
chairperson: Branislav Nikolic
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
chairperson: Howard Wiseman
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