Times in program corresponds to
Prague time zone (UTC/GMT +2 hours).
| 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 |
Mikko Möttönen
Autonomous Quantum Heat Engine |
| 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 |
Linda Reichl
Entanglement Propagation in quantum dots |
| 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 |
Alexandre Zagoskin
Dissipative and nondissipative quantum circuit elements |
| 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 |
Rudolf Hilfer
Unstable Hertel-Thirring Models |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | |
| 14:50 - 15:10 |
Mateusz Wiśniewski and Jakub Spiechowicz
Fast directed transport via energy recuperation in non-Markovian media |
| 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 |
Frédéric Chevy
AC transport in ultracold Fermi gases. |
| 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 |
Peter D. Keefe
Phun with Phase Transions of the Quantum Mechanical Kind |
| 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 |
Tapio Ala-Nissilä
The Magic in Quantum Machine Learning |
| 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 |
Bob Montgomery and Allen Hermann
How Jazz Musicians Use Improvisation in Communicating with Each Other and with the Audience |
| 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 |