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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).
 
Thursday, 25 July 2024

07:50 - 9:50 1 session: Foundations of quantum physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
07:50 - 08:20 Vitaly Wirthl, Omer Amit, Derya Taray, Vincent Weis, Lothar Maisenbacher, Theodor Hänsch, and Thomas Udem
Fundamental Physics with atomic Hydrogen
08:20 - 08:50 Georgi Gary Rozenman
Quantum Mechanical and Optical Inspirations in Surface Gravity Water Waves: An Analogy Exploration
08:50 - 09:20 Salvatore Virzì, Enrico Rebufello, Francesco Atzori, Alessio Avella, Fabrizio Piacentini, Rudi Lussana, Iris Cusini, Francesca Madonini, Federica Villa, Marco Gramegna, Eliahu Cohen, Ivo Pietro Degiovanni, and Marco Genovese
Entanglement-preserving single-pair measurement of the Bell parameter
09:20 - 09:50 Dana Zachary Anderson
Maxwell Matter Waves: Coherence Properties, Generation, and Applications

09:50 - 10:10 Coffee break

10:10 - 12:10 2 session - A parallel: Biophysics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
10:10 - 10:40 Philip Hemmer
Engineering Nanodiamonds for Quantum-enhanced Bio-sensing
10:40 - 11:10 Lev Mourokh
VitaCrystallography: Old Approach to New Challenges
11:10 - 11:40 Yaroslav M. Blanter
Electron transport in cable bacteria
11:40 - 12:10 Jiří J. Mareš, Václav Špička, and Pavel Hubík
Physical processes controlling biological neural networks

10:10 - 12:10 2 session - B parallel: Thermodynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
10:10 - 10:40 Franklin Rodrigues and Eric Lutz
Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of quantum coherence beyond linear response
10:40 - 11:10 Yan Fyodorov, Ewa Gudowska-Nowak, Maciej A. Nowak, and Wojciech Tarnowski (online)
Non-orthogonal eigenvectors, fluctuation-dissipation relations and entropy production
11:10 - 11:40 Lucianno Defaveri, Eli Barkai, and David A Kessler
Stretched Exponential Relaxation of Weakly-Confined Brownian Particles
11:40 - 12:10 Gabriele De Chiara
Thermodynamics of quantum time crystals

10:10 - 12:10 2 session - C parallel: Quantum computing
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C
10:10 - 10:40 Sebastian Luhn, Freyja Ullinger, and Matthias Zimmermann
Quantum computing with continuous quantum systems
10:40 - 11:10 Ivan Rungger, Abhishek Agarwal, Lachlan Lindoy, Deep Lall, and Francois Jamet
Modelling non-Markovian noise in superconducting qubits
11:10 - 11:40 Paolo Piergentili, Francesco Marzioni, Michele Bonaldi, Antonio Borrielli, Riccardo Natali, Nicola Malossi, Enrico Serra, David Vitali, and Giovanni Di Giuseppe
Low Noise Opto-Electro-Mechanical Modulator for RF-to-Optical Transduction in Quantum Communications
11:40 - 12:10 Maximilian Tippmann, Jakob Kaltwasser, Maximilian Mengler, and Thomas Walther
A scalable quantum key distribution network based on time-bin entanglement - reloaded

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:30 3 session: Biophysics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
13:00 - 13:30 Hong-Guang Duan, Ajay Jha, Pan-Pan Zhang, Vandana Tiwari, Lipeng Chen, Richard J. Cogdell, Khuram Ashraf, Valentyn I. Prokhorenko, Michael Thorwart, and R.J. Dwayne Miller
Unraveling quantum coherences in photosynthetic protein complexes at ultralow temperatures
13:30 - 14:00 J. D. Torrenegra-Rico, A. Arango-Resptrepo, and J. M. Rubi
Optimal transport of active particles induced by substrate concentration oscillations
14:00 - 14:30 Stefan Klumpp
Patterns of active filaments

14:30 - 14:50 Coffee break

14:50 - 16:20 4 session: Non-equilibrium statistical physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
14:50 - 15:20 Uri Peskin, Saar Rahav, and Michael Iv
Emergence of Boltzmann subspaces in open quantum systems far from equilibrium
15:20 - 15:50 Rudolf Hilfer
Statistical Ensembles for Unstable Quantum and Classical Systems
15:50 - 16:20 Aneta Stefanovska
Stability in multiscale oscillatory systems away from equilibrium

16:20 - 18:10 Poster session and refreshment
Location: Pyramida hotel - first floor

18:10 - 18:30 Free time

18:30 - 22:00 Evening session: Public lecture of John Mather and concert
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

18:30 - 18:45 Opening address and music introduction

18:45 - 19:45 Public lecture
18:45 - 19:45 John C Mather
Discoveries with the James Webb Space Telescope

19:45 - 20:00 Discussion after the lecture of John Mather

20:00 - 20:30 Break

20:30 - 22:00 Concert of classical music