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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
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