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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).
 
Wednesday, 24 July 2024

07:50 - 9:50 1 session: Bose Einstein condensation, Gravity, Sensors
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Wolfgang Schleich
07:50 - 08:20 Vanderlei S. Bagnato (online)
Time evolution of a far-from-equilibrium BEC: turbulence, scalability, reversing cascade, and thermalization
08:20 - 08:50 Ernst Maria Rasel
Interferometry with Bose-Einstein condensates in microgravity
08:50 - 09:20 Hansjörg Dittus
Quantum sensors in spacetime
09:20 - 09:50 Vanessa Ortiz, Jens Berdahl, Michael Manicchia, and Frank Narducci
Measuring the period of a pendulum with a tall atom interferometer

09:50 - 10:10 Coffee break

10:10 - 12:10 2 session: Quantum optics, plasmons
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Frank Narducci
10:10 - 10:40 Wolfgang Schleich
Equivalence of Hamiltonians in Atom Optics
10:40 - 11:10 Ortwin Hess
Quantum Coherent Perfect Absorption in Nanoplasmonic Cavities
11:10 - 11:40 Walter Pfeiffer
Quantumness in plasmon assisted multiphoton photoemission
11:40 - 12:10 Norbert Kroo
High field nanoplasmonics (On the way to nuclear fusion)

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:40 3 session - A parallel: Quantum optics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Anil Patnaik
13:00 - 13:30 Jacob Emerick, Trever Harborth, and Yuri Rostovtsev
Correlated quantum photon states generated by vacuum fields
13:30 - 14:00 Nir Navon
Many-body physics with Fermions in an Optical Box
14:00 - 14:20 Vincenzo Macrì, Alberto Mercurio, Franco Nori, Salvatore Savasta, and Carlos Sánchez Muñoz
Spontaneous scattering of Raman photons from cavity-QED systems in the ultrastrong coupling regime
14:20 - 14:40 Ian Joel David, Ilya Sinayskiy, and Francesco Petruccione (online)
Quantum Simulation of Markovian Open Quantum Systems

13:00 - 14:40 3 session - B parallel: Quantum transport
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
chairperson: Joachim Ankerhold
13:00 - 13:30 Edvin Idrisov, Ivan Levkivskyi, and Eugene Sukhorukov
Charge-conserving equilibration of quantum Hall edge states
13:30 - 14:00 Alessandro Braggio, Matteo Carrega, Bjoern Sothmann, and Rafael Sanchez
Nonlocal thermoelectric detection of interaction and correlations in Quantum Hall edge states
14:00 - 14:20 Udit Khanna, Ke Huang, Ganpathy Murthy, Herbert Abraham Fertig, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jun Zhu, and Efrat Shimshoni
New view on the quantum Hall phase diagram of bilayer graphene
14:20 - 14:40 Michael Kastner, Emma C. King, and Johannes N. Kriel
Cooling towards a quantum critical point: Universality and scaling in open quantum systems

13:00 - 14:40 3 session - C parallel: Quantum structures and dynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C
chairperson: Frithjof Anders
13:00 - 13:30 Peter Samuelsson (online)
Quantum measurement and control of a Maxwell demon in double quantum dots
13:30 - 14:00 Björn Sothmann
Higgs-like pair amplitude dynamics in superconductor-quantum dot hybrids
14:00 - 14:20 C. Han, M. Wang, B. Zhang, M. I. Dykman, and H. B. Chan
Controlled asymmetric Ising model implemented with parametric micromechanical oscillators
14:20 - 14:40 Gergely Zaránd, Patrik Penc, Pascu Moca, Örs Legeza, Tomaz Prosen, and Miklós Werner
Loss-induced quantum information jet in an infinite temperature Hubbard chain

14:40 - 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 - 17:10 4 session - A parallel: Quantum transport
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Mauro Antezza
15:00 - 15:30 Shmuel Gurvitz and Dmitri Sokolovski
New approach beyond Floquet to tunneling current under external periodic drive of arbitrary shape
15:30 - 16:00 Fernando Sols and Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova
Simultaneous symmetry breaking in spontaneous Floquet states: Floquet-Nambu-Goldstone modes, Floquet thermodynamics, and the time operator
16:00 - 16:30 Oren Tal
Experimental demonstration of an atomic-scale heat pump
16:30 - 16:50 Chen Xu, Andreas Haller, Suraj Hegde, Tobias Meng, and Thomas L Schmidt
Quantum geometry and semiclassical dynamics in inhomogeneous fields
16:50 - 17:10 Mateusz Wiśniewski, Jerzy Łuczka, and Jakub Spiechowicz
Effective mass approach to memory in non-Markovian systems

15:00 - 17:10 4 session - B parallel: Out of equilibrium systems, Active matter
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
chairperson: Lev Mourokh
15:00 - 15:30 Kimball A Milton, Nima Poutolami, Gerard Kennedy, and Xin Guo (online)
Quantum Self-Propulsion of an Inhomogeneous Object out of Thermal Equilibrium
15:30 - 16:00 Hartmut Löwen
Nonequilibrium phase transitions in active matter
16:00 - 16:30 Hila Katznelson and Saar Rahav
Can auxiliary sites accelerate enzymatic reactions?
16:30 - 16:50 Daniel M Dantchev
On ensemble dependence of fluctuation-induced forces: Exact results for Casimir and Helmholtz forces
16:50 - 17:10 Ido Siovitz, Yannick Deller, Alexander Schmutz, Helmut Strobel, Markus K. Oberthaler, and Thomas Gasenzer
Non-linear excitations and low-energy effective theories of spinor gases far from equilibrium

15:00 - 17:10 4 session - C parallel: General physics - models and methods
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C
chairperson: Giuseppe Falci
15:00 - 15:30 Ofer Biham, Ido Tishby, and Eytan Katzav
The distribution of first passage times of random walks on random regular graphs
15:30 - 16:00 Gianluca Rastelli, Michele Governale, Pasquale Scarlino, and Christian Schönenberger
Entangled photon-pair emission in circuit QED from a Cooper pair splitter
16:00 - 16:30 Peter Schmitteckert
NMR: From Molecules to Spectra
16:30 - 16:50 Alexandre Zagoskin (online)
Generalized Pechukas-Yukawa formalism for quantum systems with discrete energy spectra
16:50 - 17:10 Mauro Paternostro (online)
Informational steady-states and conditional entropy production in continuously monitored systems

17:10 - 19:00 Free time and transfer to the Church of Our Lady before Týn

19:00 - 20:30 Concert of classical music
Location: Church of Our Lady before Týn