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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).
 
Wednesday, 3 August 2022

07:50 - 9:50 1 session: Light - matter interactions
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Yuri Rostovtsev
07:50 - 08:20 Franco Nori (online)
Quantum optics with giant atoms: Decoherence-free interaction between giant atoms in waveguide quantum electrodynamics.
08:20 - 08:50 Ortwin Hess (online)
Nanoplasmonics as enabler of room-temperature quantum nanophotonics
08:50 - 09:20 Ruben Pompe, Matthias Hensen, Matthew Otten, Stephen K Gray, and Walter Pfeiffer
Emergent functionality in quantum plasmonics
09:20 - 09:50 Norbert Kroo
Some applications of high field nanoplasmonics

09:50 - 10:10 Coffee break

10:10 - 12:10 2 session: Quantum thermodynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Andrew Jordan
10:10 - 10:40 Tapio Ala-Nissilä
Unraveling correlation in quantum master equations for open system dynamics
10:40 - 11:10 Gabriel Artur Weiderpass and Amir Ordacgi Caldeira
Von Neumann entropy and entropy production of a damped harmonic oscillator
11:10 - 11:40 J. Miguel Rubi and Rodrigo de Miguel
Negative thermophoresis in the strong coupling regime
11:40 - 12:10 Gershon Kurizki
Nonlinear coherent steering of heat and work

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:40 3 session - A parallel: General physics, biophysics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Lev Mourokh
13:00 - 13:30 Warwick P. Bowen, Catxere A. Casacio, Lars S. Madsen, Alex Terrasson, Muhammad Waleed, Kai Barnscheidt, Boris Hage, and Michael A. Taylor (online)
Absolute quantum advantage in imaging: biological microscopy beyond the quantum limit
13:30 - 14:00 Suzy Lidström and Roland E. Allen
Consciousness as coherent excitation of a hybrid quantum field
14:00 - 14:20 Jiří J. Mareš, Václav Špička, and Pavel Hubík
On physical processes controlling biological neural networks
14:20 - 14:40 Peter D. Keefe
The first order phase transition of Type I superconductors: Bardeen hysteresis explained

13:00 - 14:40 3 session - B parallel: Hall effect
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
chairperson: Branislav Nikolic
13:00 - 13:30 Andreas Bock Michelsen, Patrik Recher, Bernd Braunecker, and Thomas L Schmidt
Supercurrent-enabled Andreev reflection in a chiral quantum Hall edge state
13:30 - 14:00 Pavel Středa and Karel Výborný
Anomalous Hall conductivity and quantum friction
14:00 - 14:20 David F. Mross
The fractional quantum Hall state at nu=5/2: Recent insights from theory and experiment
14:20 - 14:40 Jiří J. Mareš, Václav Špička, and Pavel Hubík
Hidden momentum and Hall effect

13:00 - 14:40 3 session - C parallel: General physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C
chairperson: Shmuel Gurvitz
13:00 - 13:30 Chiara Marletto, Vlatko Vedral, Laura Tamara Knoll, Fabrizio Piacentini, Ettore Bernardi, Enrico Rebufello, Alessio Avella, Marco Gramegna, Ivo Pietro Degiovanni, and Marco Genovese
Emergence of constructor-based irreversibility in quantum systems
13:30 - 14:00 Ofer Biham, Ido Tishby, and Eytan Katzav
The life cycle of random walks on random regular graphs
14:00 - 14:20 Eytan Katzav, Ido Tishby, Barak Budnick, and Ofer Biham
Convergence of contracting networks towards an asymptotic maximum-entropy structure
14:20 - 14:40 Satoshi Ejima, Florian Lange, and Holger Fehske
Photoinduced pairing states in pumped excitonic insulators

14:40 - 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 - 17:10 4 session - A parallel: Quantum optics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Wolfgang Schleich
15:00 - 15:30 Yuri Rostovtsev
Room-temperature tunable masers based on the weakly aligned molecules
15:30 - 16:00 Marlan Scully (online)
Of Bose condensates, squeezed light and black holes
16:00 - 16:30 Xiwen Zhang, Yuri Shvyd'ko, and Olga Kocharovskaya (online)
Nuclear ensembles with controllable inhomogeneous broadening for nuclear quantum memories and spectral intensity enhancement
16:30 - 16:50 Jeffrey G. Lee, Matthias Zimmermann, Maxim A. Efremov, Wolfgang P. Schleich, and Frank A. Narducci (online)
A T-cubed atom interferometer
16:50 - 17:10 Anil K Patnaik (online)
Tabletop mixed radiation source from liquid target via extreme light interactions

15:00 - 17:10 4 session - B parallel: Quantum transport
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
chairperson: James Freericks
15:00 - 15:30 Riku Tuovinen
Time-linear non-equilibrium Green's function approach to correlated quantum transport
15:30 - 16:00 Michael Ridley (online)
Quantum probability from causal structure
16:00 - 16:30 Hao Lin, Hossein Mahzoon, Arnau Rios, and Pawel Danielewicz
Slabs of correlated nucleons with nonequilibrium Green's functions
16:30 - 16:50 Michael Galperin
Green's function methods for single molecule junctions
16:50 - 17:10 Ivan Rungger
Quantum computing algorithms for Green's functions in materials science

15:00 - 17:10 4 session - C parallel: Quantum physics and gravitation
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C
chairperson: Dirk Bouwmeester
15:00 - 15:30 Vasilis Fragkos, Michael Kopp, and Igor Pikovski
Lessons on quantum gravity from gravitationally induced entanglement
15:30 - 16:00 Roland E Allen
Origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, Einstein-Hilbert action, and a dark matter particle that should be detected in the next 2-5 years
16:00 - 16:30 Giorgio Torrieri
The equivalence principle and inertial-gravitational decoherence
16:30 - 16:50 Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen
Exact solutions for black holes with a smooth quantum core
16:50 - 17:10 Matthias Zimmermann, Freyja Ullinger, and Wolfgang P. Schleich
Hawking radiation, the logarithmic phase singularity, and the inverted harmonic oscillator

17:10 - 19:00 Free time and transfer to St. Vitus Cathedral

19:00 - 20:30 Concert of classical music
Location: Prague Castle - St. Vitus Cathedral and live on internet