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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

21-27 July 2024, Prague, Czech Republic

20th anniversary of the first (FQMT'04) conference, 10th FQMT conference.

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

Times in program corresponds to Prague time zone (UTC/GMT +2 hours).
 
Monday, 22 July 2024

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

08:20 - 9:50 1 session: Stochastic and quantum thermodynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Peter Hänggi
08:20 - 08:50 Udo Seifert
Stochastic thermodynamics: From concepts to model-free inference
08:50 - 09:20 Cheolhee Han, Doron Cohen, and Eran Sela
Measuring stochastic thermodynamics in mesoscopic systems using a quantum work agent
09:20 - 09:50 Gershon Kurizki
Quantum nonlinear thermodynamics from polaritons and spins to black holes

09:50 - 10:10 Coffee break

10:10 - 12:10 2 session: Quantum measurement
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Anna Maria Cetto
10:10 - 10:40 Andrew N Jordan and Irfan A Siddiqi
Quantum Measurement: Theory and Practice
10:40 - 11:10 Aritro Mukherjee, Lotte Mertens, and Jasper van Wezel
Spontaneous unitarity violation as a model for quantum state reduction
11:10 - 11:40 Dirk Bouwmeester, Vitaly Fedoseev, Ian Hedgepeth, Fernando Luna, Xinrui Wei, Leon Raabe, Wolfgang Loeffler, Geert Timmerman, Hidde Kanger, Harmen van der Meer, Kier Heeck, and Enrique Morell
Quantum optomechanics for investigating the collapse of the quantum wave function
11:40 - 12:10 Josias Langbehn, Kyrylo Snizhko, Igor Gornyi, Giovanna Morigi, Yuval Gefen, and Christiane Koch
Measurement-assisted quantum cooling

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:10 3 session - A parallel: Quantum dynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Michael Thoss
13:00 - 13:30 Alexander Kemper, Chao Yang, and Emanuel Gull
Denoising and Extension of Real- and Imaginary-time Green's Functions
13:30 - 14:00 Michael Bonitz, Jan-Philip Joost, Karsten Balzer, Christopher Makait, and Erik K Schroedter
Accelerating nonequilibrium Green functions simulations: the G1-G2 scheme
14:00 - 14:20 Rafael Sánchez and José Balduque
Scattering theory of thermal and thermoelectric diodes

13:00 - 15:10 3 session - B parallel : Quantum optics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
chairperson: Walter Pfeiffer
13:00 - 13:30 Noah S Everett, Keith A Wyman, and Anil K Patnaik
Reconstructing the Quantum State of Photon Propagating Through Atmospheric Turbulence Simulator
13:30 - 14:00 Radim Filip
Quantum non-Gaussian coherence and correlation of light and atoms
14:00 - 14:30 Jacek Grela, Maciej A. Nowak, and Wojciech Tarnowski (online)
Eikonal formulation of large dynamical random matrix models
14:30 - 14:50 Matthias Krüger
Theory of thermal transport via photons within media
14:50 - 15:10 Evgeniy Narimanov (online)
The Effective Permittivity of a Composite Material

13:00 - 15:10 3 session - C parallel: Many body physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C
chairperson: Eric Akkermans
13:00 - 13:30 Thomas Vojta, Martin Puschmann, Pulloor Kuttanikkad Vishnu, and Rajesh Narayanan
Critical Behavior and Collective Modes at the Superfluid Transition in Amorphous Systems
13:30 - 14:00 Mauro Antezza
Spontaneous Breaking of Time Reversal Symmetry and Time-Crystal States in Chiral Atomic Systems
14:00 - 14:30 Grégoire Ithier, Rémi Lefèvre, and Hovan Lee
Typicality and unconventional stationary states of a system of interacting spinless fermions
14:30 - 14:50 Yohann Machu, Andrés Durán Hernández, Gautier Creutzer, Aurore-Alice Young, Paul Méhaignerie, Jean-Michel Raimond, Michel Brune, and Clément Sayrin
Interacting laser-trapped circular Rydberg atoms
14:50 - 15:10 Jeremy R Armstrong, Neelam Shukla, and Artem G Volosniev
Static properties of an asymmetric impurity in a dipolar BEC

15:10 - 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 - 16:00 Opening address: 20th Anniversary of the first FQMT conference
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Udo Seifert

16:00 - 18:00 4 session: 20th Anniversary of the first FQMT conference
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Václav Špička
16:00 - 16:30 Marlan O. Scully (online)
Entanglement in Unruh and Hawking radiation from a quantum optical perspective
16:30 - 17:00 Heiner Linke
Symmetry-breaking as a tool for increasing power and efficiency in thermal-to-electric energy conversion
17:00 - 17:30 Gabriel A. Weiderpass, Gustavo M. Monteiro, and Amir O. Caldeira
Exact Solution for the Heat Conductance in Harmonic Chains
17:30 - 18:00 Peter Hänggi
Aspects of Quantum Thermodynamics: Facts, debatable issues and unsolved issues

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