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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).
 
Saturday, 6 August 2022

08:20 - 10:20 1 session: Foundations of quantum physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
08:20 - 08:50 Howard M. Wiseman, Eric G. Cavalcanti, and Eleanor G. Rieffel
Can a qubit be your friend? Why experimental metaphysics needs a quantum computer.
08:50 - 09:20 James Freericks
How do we measure the momentum of a quantum particle
09:20 - 09:50 Gerard Kennedy
Energetics of quantum vacuum friction
09:50 - 10:20 Federico Cerisola, Marco Berritta, Stefano Scali, Simon A.R. Horsley, James D. Cresser, and Janet Anders
Quantum-classical correspondence in spin-boson equilibrium states at arbitrary coupling

10:20 - 10:40 Coffee break

10:40 - 12:10 2 session: Physics of superfluids
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
10:40 - 11:10 Jeff Steinhauer, Murad Abuzarli, Tangui Aladjidi, Tom Bienaime, Clara Piekarski, Wei Liu, Elisabeth Giacobino, Alberto Bramati, and Quentin Glorieux (online)
Analogue cosmological particle creation in an ultracold quantum fluid of light
11:10 - 11:40 Philipp Heinen, Aleksandr N. Mikheev, Christian M. Schmied, Ido Siovitz, and Thomas Gasenzer
Instantons in far-from-equilibrium spinor gases
11:40 - 12:10 Anthony M. Guenault, Peter V. E. McClintock, Malcolm Poole, Roch Schanen, Viktor Tsepelin, Dmitri Zmeev, David Schmoranzer, and William F. Vinen
Quantum turbulence in superfluid He-4: creation, evolution and decay in novel geometries

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:00 3 session: Thermodynamics and statistical physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
13:00 - 13:30 Rudolf Hilfer
Foundations of statistical mechanics for unstable interactions
13:30 - 14:00 Jerzy Ɓuczka
Quantum counterpart of energy equipartition theorem - General case
14:00 - 14:30 Gert-Ludwig Ingold, Tanja Schoger, Benjamin Spreng, Paulo A. Maia Neto, and Serge Reynaud
Casimir interaction in colloidal and biophysical systems
14:30 - 15:00 Mario Arnolfo Ciampini and Nikolai Kiesel
Spatiotemporal control of levitated nanoparticles for nonequlibrium thermodynamics

15:00 - 15:30 Closing remarks
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A