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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics 2026 - FQMT'26

26 July - 1 August 2026, Prague, Czech Republic

11th FQMT conference
Times in program corresponds to Prague time zone (UTC/GMT +2 hours).
Full Program | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday
Sunday, 26 July 2026
 
17:00 - 21:00 Registration and welcome refreshment
Location: Pyramida Hotel - Lobby

 
Monday, 27 July 2026
 
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: Eric Lutz
08:20 - 08:50
08:50 - 09:20
09:20 - 09:50

09:50 - 10:10 Coffee break

10:10 - 12:10 2 session: Quantum computing
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Eric Akkermans
10:10 - 10:40
Yuval Gefen, Josias Langbehn, George Mouloudakis, Emma King, Raphael Menu, Giovanna Morigi, Igor Gornyi, and Christiane Koch
Quantum Cooling through Measurements
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 - 11:40
11:40 - 12:10

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:10 3 session - A parallel: Many body systems out of equilibrium
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Riku Tuovinen
13:00 - 13:30
Branislav K. Nikolic, Federico Garcia-Gaitan, Jalil Varela-Manjarres, and Felipe Reyes-Osorio
Driven-dissipative quantum spin systems: Fate of their entanglement and the origins of the classical Landau-Lifshitz equation
13:30 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:30
Sean Fancher and Jordan Horowitz
The geometry of nonequilibrium response
14:30 - 14:50
14:50 - 15:10
David Edward Bruschi
Toward Algebraic Quantum Control

13:00 - 15:10 3 session - B parallel: Quantum information
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
chairperson: Jens Eisert
13:00 - 13:30
Laura Hoek, Neta Ben Ari, Remi Goerlich, Yael Roichman, and Saar Rahav
Information engines with self-propelling particles
13:30 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:30
14:30 - 14:50
Soroush Khademi, Jesse J Slim, Kiarn T Laverick, Jin Chang, Jingkun Guo, Simon Groblacher, Howard M Wiseman, and Warwick P Bowen
Post-processed estimation of quantum evolution
14:50 - 15:10
Jose Este Jaloveckas, Alexander Shnirman, and Moshe Schechter
Conditional Dynamics of a Dual-Rail Qubit with Asymmetric Erasure Rates

13:00 - 15:10 3 session - C parallel: Quantum optics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C
chairperson: Ernst Rasel
13:00 - 13:30
Dana Z. Anderson and Katarzyna Krzyzanowska
The Mechanics of Maxwell Matter Waves
13:30 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:30
Walter Pfeiffer, Andreas Gebauer, Luis Maschmann, Nikolay M. Kabachnik, and Eugene E. Krasovskii
Impact of surface scattering on photoelectron escape times
14:30 - 14:50
14:50 - 15:10
Sarthak Girdhar, Edvin G. Idrisov, and Thomas L. Schmidt
Fabry–Perot interferometry with stochastic anyonic sources

15:10 - 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 - 18:00 4 session: Foundations of quantum physics, dedicated to the memory of Luis de la Peña
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Theo Nieuwenhuizen
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 - 17:00
17:00 - 17:30
Mathias Van Den Bossche and Philippe Grangier
Contextual unification of classical and quantum physics
17:30 - 18:00
Hervé Zwirn
Are Events Absolute?

18:00 - 19:00 Free time and transfer to Wallenstein Palace

19:00 - 22:00 Welcome Party
Location: Wallenstein Palac and its Garden

19:00 - 19:30 Opening

19:30 - 22:00 Welcome party in the Wallenstein Palace Garden

 
Tuesday, 28 July 2026
 
07:50 - 9:50 1 session: Quantum computing
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Mohammad Ansari
07:50 - 08:20
08:20 - 08:50
Naser Ahmadiniaz, Dennis Kraft, Gernot Schaller, and Ralf Schuetzhold
Quantum Zeno effect versus adiabatic quantum computing and quantum annealing
08:50 - 09:20
Kiarn Travis Laverick, Samyak Pratyush Prasad, Pascale Senellart, Maria Maffei, and Alexia Auffèves
An energetic constraint for qubit-qubit entanglement
09:20 - 09:50
Eric Akkermans, Nadav Orion, Nirron Miller, and Boris Rotstein
Topological sum rule for geometric phases of quantum gates

09:50 - 10:10 Coffee break

10:10 - 12:10 2 session: Quantum thermodynamics, engines
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Ronnie Kosloff
10:10 - 10:40
10:40 - 11:10
Waner Hou, Wanchao Yao, Xingyu Zhao, Kamran Rehan, Yi Li, Yue Li, Eric Lutz, Yiheng Lin, and Jiangfeng Du
Combining energy efficiency and quantum advantage in cyclic machines
11:10 - 11:40
11:40 - 12:10

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:10 3 session - A parallel: Quantum structures and dynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Alexia Auffeves
13:00 - 13:30
13:30 - 14:00
Leo Kouwenhoven, Nick van Loo, Francesco Zatelli, Bart Roovers, Vincent Sietses, Florian Bennebroek Evertsz, Antonio Lombardi, Pablo Cova Farina, Ashley Ang, and Mats de Jong
Experiments on Kitaev chains in nanowires
14:00 - 14:30
14:30 - 14:50
Filippo Antola, Giorgio De Simoni, Francesco Giazotto, and Alessandro Braggio
Quantum bipolar thermoelectricity
14:50 - 15:10
Dolev Haddad, Herbert A. Fertig, and Efrat Shimshoni
Striped Spin Density Wave in a Graphene/Black Phosphorous Heterostructure

13:00 - 15:10 3 session - B parallel: Quantum thermodynamics and transport
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
chairperson: Saar Rahav
13:00 - 13:30
13:30 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:30
14:30 - 14:50
14:50 - 15:10

13:00 - 15:10 3 session - C parallel: Quantum many body systems
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C
chairperson: Alexandre Zagoskin
13:00 - 13:30
13:30 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:30
Joseph Maciejko
Topological Landau theory
14:30 - 14:50
Adrian Reich, Kiryl Piasotski, Eytan Grosfeld, and Alexander Shnirman
Emergence of multiple zero modes bound to vortices in extended topological Josephson junctions
14:50 - 15:10

15:10 - 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 - 17:00 4 session: Information, classical and quantum dynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Doron Cohen
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 - 16:30
Thiago Rodrigues de Oliveira, Fernando de Melo, Gabriel Dias Carvalho, Pedro Correia, Raul Vallejos, and Tiago Debarba
Emergence of Classicality from Equilibration in Isolated Quantum Systems
16:30 - 17:00

18:15 - 22:00 Evening session: Public lectures of Philippe Grangier and Allen Hermann followed by jazz concert
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Václav Špička

18:15 - 18:30 Opening address

18:30 - 19:20 Public lecture:
18:30 - 19:20

19:20 - 19:30 Discussion after the lecture of Philippe Grangier

19:30 - 19:45 Break

19:45 - 20:35 Public lecture:
19:45 - 20:35

20:35 - 20:45 Disscusion after the lecture of Bob Montgomery and Allen Hermann

20:45 - 21:00 Break

21:00 - 22:00 Jazz concert

 
Wednesday, 29 July 2026
 
07:50 - 9:50 1 session: Quantum optics, superfluids out of equilibrium
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Nir Navon
07:50 - 08:20
08:20 - 08:50
08:50 - 09:20
Vanderlei S Bagnato, Sarah Sab, Michelle M Armijos, Arnol G Orozco, and Amilson Fritch
Stages of the relaxation for a far-from-equilibrium trapped superfluid
09:20 - 09:50
Peter McClintock, Malcolm Poole, Roch Schanen, Aneta Stefanovska, Viktor Tsepelin, Dmitry Zmeev, David Schmoranzer, Simon Midlik, Carlos Uriarte Gonzalez, Deepak Garg, Kalpana Devi, and Makoto Tsubota
Creation of quantised vortices at a moving surface in superfluid 4He

09:50 - 10:10 Coffee break

10:10 - 12:10 2 session: Quantum systems out of equilibrium
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Jürgen Stockburger
10:10 - 10:40
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 - 11:40
11:40 - 12:10
Uri Peskin, Saar Rahav, Yotam Gomeh, and Michael Iv
Boltzmann subspaces and temperatures in systems driven far from equilibrium

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:40 3 session - A parallel: Quantum dynamics, spin systems
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Alexander Shnirman
13:00 - 13:30
13:30 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:20
14:20 - 14:40
Ido Avidan, Roee Factor, and David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky (online)
Physical requirements for anomalous thermalization (Mpemba effect)

13:00 - 14:40 3 session - B parallel: Biophysics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
chairperson: Peter Schmitteckert
13:00 - 13:30
13:30 - 14:00
Thomas Vojta, Ralf Metzler, and Skirmantas Janusonis
Reflected fractional Brownian motion as model of serotonergic axons in the brain
14:00 - 14:20
Jiří J. Mareš, Václav Špička, and Pavel Hubík
Formation of action potential in neuron and the quantum diffusion of somatic ions
14:20 - 14:40

13:00 - 14:40 3 session - C parallel: Quantum information
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C
chairperson: Henning Kirchberg
13:00 - 13:30
13:30 - 14:00
Alessandro Tarantola, Alexander Sauer, Johanna Seitz, Jannes Weghake, Freyja Ullinger, Lukas Pausch, and Matthias Zimmermann
Advanced Quantum Networks - Future Applications and Technology Demonstrations
14:00 - 14:20
14:20 - 14:40
Oleksandr Yu. Kitsenko, Sergey N. Shevchenko, Lorenzo Peri, and Franco Nori (online)
Quantum capacitances and resistances of electron boxes and transistors

14:40 - 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 - 17:10 4 session - A parallel: General physics - models and methods
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Thomas Vojta
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 - 16:50
H. B. Chan, T. U. Ngai, Z. Zhang, Q. Zhang, Y. Jeyar, M. Luo, J. Li, Z. Luo, B. Guizal, and M. Antezza
Casimir force on gratings covered with graphene
16:50 - 17:10
Gabriel H. S. Aguiar and George E. A. Matsas (online)
A gravitational self-decoherence model and a gentle recovery of the classical world

15:00 - 17:10 4 session - B parallel: Foundations of quantum physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
chairperson: Gregor Weihs
15:00 - 15:30
Pietro Oreglia, Andrea Marchese, Daniele Contessi, Alessio Recati, Gianluigi Catelani, Andrea Vinante, and Gianluca Rastelli
Magnetically Levitated Systems Approaching the Quantum Regime
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 - 16:50
16:50 - 17:10
Alberto Riccardi and Lorenzo Maccone
Tight Entropic Uncertainty Relations

15:00 - 17:10 4 session - C parallel: General physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C
chairperson: Konstantin Beyer
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 - 16:50
Jiří J. Mareš, Václav Špička, and Pavel Hubík
Note on the so-called “big G puzzle”
16:50 - 17:10

17:10 - 19:00 Free time and transfer to the Church of Saint Nicholas

19:00 - 20:00 Concert of classical music
Location: Church of Saint Nicholas

 
Thursday, 30 July 2026
 
07:50 - 9:50 1 session: General physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Ralf Schuetzhold
07:50 - 08:20
08:20 - 08:50
Aida Sadeghi, Fatema Tanjia, and Joan Alfina Vaccaro
The quantum theory of time: Emergence of Lorentz invariance
08:50 - 09:20
Bei-Lok Hu
Vacuum Viscosity
09:20 - 09:50

09:50 - 10:10 Coffee break

10:10 - 12:10 2 session - A parallel: General physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: John Bush
10:10 - 10:40
Georgi Gary Rozenman, Joel Been, Arnaud Lazarus, and John W M Bush
Aharonov–Bohm, Kennard Phase, and Three-Slit Dynamics in Pilot-Wave Hydrodynamics
10:40 - 11:10
Stefan Nimmrichter, Dennis Rätzel, Isobel C Bicket, Michael S Seifner, and Philipp Haslinger
Electron-enabled Nanoparticle Diffraction
11:10 - 11:40
11:40 - 12:10

10:10 - 12:10 2 session - B parallel: Many body systems, dynamics, spins
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
chairperson: Branislav Nikolic
10:10 - 10:40
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 - 11:40
Vincenzo Varrica, Giuseppe Falci, Elisabetta Paladino, and Francesco Pellegrino
Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics with two-dimensional material-based Josephson Junctions
11:40 - 12:10

10:10 - 12:10 2 session - C parallel: Quantum optics and dynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C
chairperson: Fabio Pistolesi
10:10 - 10:40
10:40 - 11:10
Francesco Marzioni, Giacomo Novelli, Riccardo Natali, Michele Bonaldi, Antonio Borrielli, Enrico Serra, Nicola Malossi, David Vitali, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, and Paolo Piergentili
Radio frequency to optical transducer based on a soft-clamped membrane
11:10 - 11:40
11:40 - 12:10
Oleh V. Ivakhneko, Diana O. Shendryk, Sergey N. Shevchenko, and Franco Nori (online)
Fast Nonadiabatic Gates for Quantum Signal Processing via Landau–Zener–Stückelberg–Majorana interferometry

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:30 3 session: Quantum optics, cold atoms
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Dana Anderson
13:00 - 13:30
Aephraim Matthew Steinberg, Daniela Angulo, Kyle Thompson, Vida-Michelle Nixon, Andy Jiao, and Howard M. Wiseman
The Private Lives of Photons: Asking particles where they spent the night
13:30 - 14:00
Jens D. Berdahl, Andrew F. McDonald, Takaho Tsubakiyama, and Frank A. Narducci
Sensitivity functions and phase scaling in light-pulse atom interferometers
14:00 - 14:30
Jeremy R Armstrong, Neelam Shukla, Oleks V Marchukov, Bastien Humbert, Jan Arlt, and Artem G Volosniev
Finite Size Effects in LHY Droplets

14:30 - 14:50 Coffee break

14:50 - 16:50 4 session: General physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Joachim Ankerhold
14:50 - 15:20
15:20 - 15:50
Shmuel Gurvitz and Dmitri Sokolovski
Time Delay in Tunneling Current and the Tunneling Time
15:50 - 16:20
Nitay Hurvitz, Alon Kochol, Victor Fleurov, and Eran Sela
Arrow of Time as an Order Parameter for Measurement-Induced Phase Transitions
16:20 - 16:50
Fernando Sols
Hawking time crystals

16:50 - 18:40 Poster session and refreshment
Location: Pyramida hotel - first floor

18:40 - 19:00 Free time

19:00 - 22:10 Evening session: Public lecture of Amir Caldeira and concert, dedicated to the memory of Anthony J. Leggett
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Václav Špička

19:00 - 19:10 Opening address

19:10 - 19:40 Fernando Sols: Remembering Tony Leggett

19:40 - 20:30 Public lecture:
19:40 - 20:30

20:30 - 20:40 Discussion after the lecture of Amir Caldeira

20:40 - 21:00 Break

21:00 - 22:10 Concert of classical music

 
Friday, 31 July 2026
 
07:50 - 9:50 1 session: Biophysics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Lev Mourokh
07:50 - 08:20
08:20 - 08:50
08:50 - 09:20
Patrik Nilsson, Neil O Robertson, Nils Gustafsson, Roberta B Davies, Chu Wai Liew, Aaron Lyons, Ralf Eichhorn, Cassandra S Niman, Gerhard A Blab, Elizabeth HC Bromley, Andrew E Whitten, Anthony P Duff, Ivan N Unksov, Jason P Beech, Peter Jönsson, Till Böcking, Birte Höcker, Derek N Woolfson, Nancy R Forde, Heiner Linke, and Paul MG Curmi
An artificial motor protein that walks along a DNA track
09:20 - 09:50

09:50 - 10:10 Coffee break
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

10:10 - 12:10 2 session - A parallel: Biophysics, dynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Ralf Eichhorn
10:10 - 10:40
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 - 11:40
Mirko Rossini, Dennis Herb, Reiner Siebert, Constantinos Simserides, Rosa Di Felice, and Joachim Ankerhold
Charge transfer through DNA - A new perspective from Human Genetics
11:40 - 12:10

10:10 - 12:10 2 session - B parallel: Many body systems, dynamics, spins
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
chairperson: Linda Reichl
10:10 - 10:40
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 - 11:40
Luca Cervellera, Alfred Hucht, and Björn Sothmann
Single-spin flip dynamics in the Ising model
11:40 - 12:10
Baptiste Lorent, Jean-Marc Sparenberg, and David Gaspard
Directionality emergence in 2D and 3D quantum random Lorentz gases

10:10 - 12:10 2 session - C parallel: Quantum computing
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C
chairperson: Soroush Khademi
10:10 - 10:40
Fabrizio Piacentini, Francesco Atzori, Salvatore Virzì, Francesco Devecchi, Domenico Abbondandolo, Alessio Avella, Marco Gramegna, Ivo Pietro Degiovanni, and Marco Genovese
Universal protection of quantum states from decoherence
10:40 - 11:10
M. V. Jabir, D. H. Ahn, N.F. R. Annafianto, I. A. Burenkov, M. Merzouki, P. Kuo, T. Gerrits, A. Battou, and S. V. Polyakov
Phase stabilization for next-generation long-distance quantum networks
11:10 - 11:40
Marco Dall'Ara, Martin Koppenhöfer, Florentin Reiter, Thomas Wellens, Simone Montangero, and Walter Hahn
Random layers for quantum optimal control with exponential expressivity
11:40 - 12:10
Evgenii Narimanov and Eugene Demler
Hyperbolic Quantum Processor

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:30 3 session: General physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Gianluca Rastelli
13:00 - 13:30
13:30 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:30

14:30 - 14:50 Coffee break

14:50 - 16:50 4 session: Classical and quantum dynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Branislav Nikolic
14:50 - 15:20
15:20 - 15:50
Fabrizio Ramirez, David Villaseñor, and Jorge G Hirsch
Superradiance, Chaos, and Thermalization in Atom–Photon Systems
15:50 - 16:20
16:20 - 16:50

16:50 - 18:00 Free time and transfer to Břevnov monastery

18:00 - 23:00 Guided tour, conference dinner and concert
Location: Břevnov Monastery

18:00 - 18:30 Guided tour through Břevnov monastery

18:30 - 18:50 Welcome

18:50 - 20:30 First part of the conference dinner

20:30 - 21:30 Concert of classical music

21:30 - 23:00 Second part of the conference dinner

 
Saturday, 1 August 2026
 
08:20 - 9:50 1 session: General physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Eugene Sukhorukov
08:20 - 08:50
John W. M. Bush
Pilot-wave hydrodynamics
08:50 - 09:20
Dmitrii S. Lvov, Sergei A. Lemziakov, Elias Ankerhold, Christoforus Dimas Satrya, Rishabh Upadhyay, Bayan Karimi, Yu-Cheng Chang, Aleksandr S. Strelnikov, Ilari K. Mäkinen, Kuan-Hsun Chiang, Joonas T. Peltonen, and Jukka P. Pekola
Superconducting circuits as a platform for experiments on open quantum systems
09:20 - 09:50

09:50 - 10:10 Coffee break

10:10 - 12:10 2 session: Quantum systems out of equilibrium
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Stefan Nimmrichter
10:10 - 10:40
10:40 - 11:10
Shasta Ramachandran, Scott Jensen, and Yoram Alhassid
Precision thermodynamics of the Fermi polaron in its strongly coupling regime
11:10 - 11:40
Jeonghyeok Park, Pawel Danielewicz, Mizuki Kurata-Nishimura, Zbigniew Chajecki, Byungshik Hong, TadaAki Isobe, Masanori Kaneko, Jung Woo Lee, William G. Lynch, Jovanie Nkouakep, and ManYee Betty Tsang
Deblurring of Nuclear Collisions
11:40 - 12:10

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:30 3 session: Quantum physics and gravity
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Andrew Jordan
13:00 - 13:30
13:30 - 14:00
James Freericks, Abdul Samad Khan, and Nikita Lugovoy
Revisiting the classical-quantum correspondence
14:00 - 14:30
Konstantin Beyer, M. S. Kim, and Igor Pikovski
From Non-Markovianity to the Quantumness of Gravitational Dynamics
14:30 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:30

15:30 - 16:00 Closing remarks
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: