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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
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