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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).
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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