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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

31 July - 6 August 2022, Prague, Czech Republic

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Times in program corresponds to Prague time zone (UTC/GMT +2 hours).
 
Friday, 5 August 2022

07:50 - 9:50 1 session: General physics, biophysics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Peter McClintock
07:50 - 08:20 Cristiane de Morais Smith
Time glasses, imaginary time crystals, and all that
08:20 - 08:50 Lev Mourokh
Physical models of mitochondrial proton-pumping complexes
08:50 - 09:20 Yutaka Shikano
Quantum computer health check via quantum random number generation
09:20 - 09:50 Karl John Friston (online)
Me and my Markov blanket

09:50 - 10:10 Coffee break

10:10 - 12:10 2 session - A parallel: Quantum transport, spin dynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Friedemann Queisser
10:10 - 10:40 Artur Soriani, Pierre Nazé, Marcus V. S. Bonança, Bartłomiej Gardas, and Sebastian Deffner (online)
Assessing nonequilibrium excitations in quantum annealers
10:40 - 11:10 Mohamad Niknam, Talia Lezama, David Cory, and Lea F. Santos
Experimental detection of the correlation Renyi entropy in the central spin model
11:10 - 11:40 Jaroslav Fabian
Spintronics with van der Waals heterostructures
11:40 - 12:10 Branislav Nikolic
What is quantum spin torque: Spintronics meets nonequilibrium strongly correlated and long-range entangled quantum matter

10:10 - 12:10 2 session - B parallel: Foundations of quantum physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
chairperson: Howard Wiseman
10:10 - 10:40 Wenlei Zhang, Jacob M. Leamer, Ravi K. Saripalli, Nicholas J. Savino, Ryan T. Glasser, and Denys I. Bondar (online)
Experimental classical optical analogues of open quantum systems: Quantum discord, violation of the Leggett-Garg inequality, and decoherence enhanced tunneling
10:40 - 11:10 Georgi Gary Rozenman, Freyja Ullinger, Matthias Zimmermann, Maxim A. Efremov, Wolfgang P. Schleich, Lev Shemer, and Ady Arie
Emulating black holes using surface gravity waves
11:10 - 11:40 Enrico Rebufello, Fabrizio Piacentini, Alessio Avella, Muriel Aparecida de Souza, Marco Gramegna, Jan Dziewior, Eliahu Cohen, Lev Vaidman, Rudi Lussana, Federica Villa, Alberto Tosi, Franco Zappa, Ivo Pietro Degiovanni, and Marco Genovese
Extracting (anomalous) weak values by detecting a single photon
11:40 - 12:10 Ehtibar Dzhafarov
A general proof that context-independent mapping (or local causality) and free choice are equivalent

10:10 - 12:10 2 session - C parallel: Foundations of quantum physics, transport theory
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C
chairperson: Jerome Rech
10:10 - 10:40 John Goold
Taking the temperature of a pure quantum state
10:40 - 11:10 Jakub Spiechowicz and Jerzy Łuczka
Arcsine law and multistable Brownian dynamics in a tilted periodic potential
11:10 - 11:40 Eugene Sukhorukov and Florian Stabler
Transmission line approach to transport of heat in chiral and drift-diffusion systems with dissipation
11:40 - 12:10 Sungguen Ryu, Rosa López, Llorenç Serra, and David Sanchez
Photoassisted chiral transport beyond the Carnot limit

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:00 3 session: Space exploration
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Wolfgang Schleich
13:00 - 13:30 Harrison H Schmitt
50 Years and counting: Major science from Apollo 17 mission to Taurus-Littrow on the Moon
13:30 - 14:00 Guy J. Consolmagno
What’s surfacing about Bennu?
14:00 - 14:30 Hansjörg Dittus
Quantum sensors - A necessity on modern spacecraft
14:30 - 15:00 Ernst M Rasel
Twin lattice interferometry - a tool for gyros and gravitational-wave detection

15:00 - 15:20 Coffee break

15:20 - 16:20 4 session: Many body physics, magnetism
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Björn Sothmann
15:20 - 15:50 Wolfgang Belzig
Quantum properties of squeezed magnons in ferro- and antiferromagnets
15:50 - 16:20 Thomas Vojta, Xuecheng Ye, and Rajesh Narayanan
Controlling the stripe order in a diluted frustrated magnet

16:20 - 17:30 Free time and transfer to Strahov monastery

17:30 - 23:00 Guided tour, conference dinner and concert
Location: Strahov Monastery

17:30 - 19:00 Guided tour through Strahov monastery

19:00 - 19:20 Welcome

19:20 - 20:30 First part of the conference dinner

20:30 - 21:30 Concert of classical music in the Basilica of Assumption of Our Lady

21:30 - 23:00 Second part of the conference dinner