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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).
 
Tuesday, 23 July 2024

07:50 - 9:50 1 session: Nonequilibrium, quantum dynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Jürgen Stockburger
07:50 - 08:20 Meng Xu, Stockburger Jürgen, and Ankerhold Joachim
A Universal Framework for Quantum Dissipation: Minimally Extended State Space and Exact Time-Local Dynamics
08:20 - 08:50 Tapio Ala-Nissilä
Unraveling correlation in quantum master equations for open system dynamics
08:50 - 09:20 Aurel Bulgac
Non-Markovian character, irreversibility, and entanglement entropy of real-time quantum many-body dynamics
09:20 - 09:50 Jens Eisert
Typical thermalization

09:50 - 10:10 Coffee break

10:10 - 12:10 2 session: Quantum computing and simulation
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Elisabetta Paladino
10:10 - 10:40 Richard Jozsa
Classically simulatable quantum computations
10:40 - 11:10 Franco Nori (online)
Machine Learning Techniques Applied to Quantum Physics
11:10 - 11:40 Giuseppe A. Falci
Adiabatic passage in solid state: from ultrastrong coupling to noise sensing
11:40 - 12:10 P. Zapletal, L. Sander, M. K. Hoffmann, N. A. McMahon, and M. J. Hartmann
Quantum convolutional neural networks for the recognition of many-body topological phases of matter

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:10 3 session - A parallel: Foundations of quantum mechanics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Theo Nieuwenhuizen
13:00 - 13:30 Bryan Dalton (online)
Can quantum theory be underpinned by a non-local hidden variable theory?
13:30 - 14:00 Ana Maria Cetto and Luis de la Peña
Physical explanation for the emergence of the quantum operator formalism and its connection with linear response theory
14:00 - 14:30 Stephen A. Fulling
Detailed Semiclassical Propagators for Simple but Nontrivial Systems
14:30 - 14:50 Yutaka Shikano
On Observer-Dependent Description of Quantum State on Identical Particles
14:50 - 15:10 Nicole Yunger Halpern
Beyond the first law: Peculiarly quantum conservation laws in thermodynamics

13:00 - 15:10 3 session - B parallel: Quantum dynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
chairperson: Joachim Ankerhold
13:00 - 13:30 Yigal Meir
Backaction and Anderson overlap catastrophe in quantum dots
13:30 - 14:00 Michael Thoss
Quantum transport and thermodynamics using the hierarchical equations of motion method
14:00 - 14:30 Luca Magazzù, Elisabetta Paladino, and Milena Grifoni
Heat transport in the quantum Rabi model: Universality and ultrastrong coupling effects
14:30 - 14:50 Kacper Prech, Gabriel Landi, Florian Meier, Nuriya Nurgalieva, Patrick Potts, Ralph Silva, and Mark Mitchison
Optimal time estimation and the clock uncertainty relation for Markovian stochastic processes
14:50 - 15:10 Klaus Ensslin
Graphene quantum devices

13:00 - 15:10 3 session - C parallel: Topological states, Anyons
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C
chairperson: Petr Zapletal
13:00 - 13:30 Ady Stern (online)
The return of the Anyons - news from the fractional quantum Hall effect
13:30 - 14:00 Eric Akkermans, Amit Goft, Yuval Abulafia, and Nadav Orion
Topological Defects: Creating and Imaging Quantum Matter
14:00 - 14:30 Marcelo Lozada-Cassou, Adrián Silva-Caballero, and Alejandra Lozada-Hidalgo
Impact of nanopore's topology on the electrical double layer and capacitance
14:30 - 14:50 Kishore Iyer, Flavio Ronetti, Benoît Grémaud, Thierry Martin, Jérôme Rech, and Thibaut Jonckheere
Finite width of anyons changes their braiding signatures
14:50 - 15:10 Frédéric Chevy
The quasi-1D polaron problem. When is 1D still 1D?

15:10 - 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 - 16:30 Afternoon session: Public lecture of Peter Hanggi
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Udo Seifert

15:30 - 16:20 Public lecture
15:30 - 16:20 Peter Hänggi
The ring of Brownian motion: Its beneficial use for physics and elsewhere

16:20 - 16:30 Discussion after the lecture of Peter Hanggi

16:30 - 17:45 Free time

17:45 - 22:00 Evening session: Public lectures of Theo Geisel, Allen Hermann and concert
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Václav Špička

17:45 - 18:00 Opening address

18:00 - 18:50 Public lecture
18:00 - 18:50 Theo Geisel
Musical Synchronization and the Secrets of Swing

18:50 - 19:00 Discussion after the lecture of Theo Geisel

19:00 - 19:15 Break

19:15 - 20:05 Public lecture
19:15 - 20:05 Allen Hermann
Fundamental Aspects of the Physics of Music

20:05 - 20:15 Disscusion after the lecture of Allen Hermann

20:15 - 20:30 Break

20:30 - 22:00 Concert of jazz music