FQMT26

Public Lectures

Philippe Grangier
Quantum Mechanics: from Fundamental Principles to Technological Revolutions

Quantum optics

Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 18:30-19:30

Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Bob Montgomery and Allen Hermann
How Jazz Musicians Use Improvisation in Communicating with Each Other and with the Audience

Biological systems, molecular motors and quantum biology

Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 19:45-20:45

Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Amir Ordacgi Caldeira
Macroscopic quantum phenomena and related matters: A brief history and the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025

Macroscopic quantum behavior

Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 19:40-20:40

Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Invited Talks

Hartmut Abele
Gravity Resonance Spectroscopy

3 session: Quantum physics and gravity
Session time: Saturday, 1 August 2026 13:00-15:30(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Eric Akkermans, Nadav Orion, Nirron Miller, and Boris Rotstein
Topological sum rule for geometric phases of quantum gates

1 session: Quantum computing
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 07:50-9:50(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Tapio Ala-Nissilä
The Magic in Quantum Machine Learning

4 session: Information, classical and quantum dynamics
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 15:30-17:00(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Dana Z. Anderson and Katarzyna Krzyzanowska
The Mechanics of Maxwell Matter Waves

3 session - C parallel: Quantum optics
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 13:00-15:10(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

Meng Xu, Jürgen T Stockburger, and Joachim Ankerhold
Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems Revisited: From Non-Markovianity to Efficient Many-body Simulations

2 session: Quantum systems out of equilibrium
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 10:10-12:10(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Mohammad Ansari
Information Transport in Classical-Quantum Hybrid System

2 session: Quantum computing
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 10:10-12:10(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Mauro Antezza
Kapitza-like Modulation of Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer

3 session - B parallel: Quantum thermodynamics and transport
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 13:00-15:10(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Ievgen Arkhipov
Controlling Chiral State Dynamics in Multiqubit and Multimode Non-Hermitian Systems

2 session - C parallel: Quantum optics and dynamics
Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 10:10-12:10(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

Jeremy R Armstrong, Neelam Shukla, Oleks V Marchukov, Bastien Humbert, Jan Arlt, and Artem G Volosniev
Finite Size Effects in LHY Droplets

3 session: Quantum optics, cold atoms
Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 13:00-14:30(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Kiarn Travis Laverick, Samyak Pratyush Prasad, Pascale Senellart, Maria Maffei, and Alexia Auffèves
An energetic constraint for qubit-qubit entanglement

1 session: Quantum computing
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 07:50-9:50(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Robert Hamilton Austin, Ramzi Khuri, Trung Phan, and Aihua Xie
Robert Dicke, Dicke Superfluoresence, Hopfield Polaritons and Amide-I Protein alpha Helix Coherent 4-Wave Mixing Gratings

1 session: Biophysics
Session time: Friday, 31 July 2026 07:50-9:50(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

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

1 session: Quantum optics, superfluids out of equilibrium
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 07:50-9:50(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Konstantin Beyer, M. S. Kim, and Igor Pikovski
From Non-Markovianity to the Quantumness of Gravitational Dynamics

2 session: Quantum systems out of equilibrium
Session time: Saturday, 1 August 2026 10:10-12:10(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Ofer Biham
First return processes on random networks

4 session - A parallel: General physics - models and methods
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 15:00-17:10(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Denys I Bondar
Alchemy as an optical problem: Theory and Experiments

4 session - C parallel: General physics
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 15:00-17:10(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

Filippo Antola, Giorgio De Simoni, Francesco Giazotto, and Alessandro Braggio
Quantum bipolar thermoelectricity

3 session - A parallel: Quantum structures and dynamics
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 13:00-15:10(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Christoph Bruder
Nonreciprocal synchronization of active quantum spins

3 session - A parallel: Quantum dynamics, spin systems
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 13:00-14:40(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

David Edward Bruschi
Toward Algebraic Quantum Control

3 session - A parallel: Many body systems out of equilibrium
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 13:00-15:10(5^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

John W. M. Bush
Pilot-wave hydrodynamics

1 session: General physics
Session time: Saturday, 1 August 2026 08:20-9:50(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Ana María Cetto and Eduardo Varela
The vacuum electromagnetic field as the source of atomic stability

4 session: Foundations of quantum physics, dedicated to the memory of Luis de la Peña
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 15:30-18:00(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Doron Cohen
Quantum measurement of work in mesoscopic systems

3 session - B parallel: Quantum thermodynamics and transport
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 13:00-15:10(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Amit Te'eni and Eliahu Cohen
Information Flow in Quantum Algorithms: Structure and Optimization

3 session - C parallel: Quantum information
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 13:00-14:40(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

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

2 session: Quantum systems out of equilibrium
Session time: Saturday, 1 August 2026 10:10-12:10(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Daniel M Dantchev
Contradictory predictions for the Casimir force under Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions: Gaussian versus mean-field model

4 session - C parallel: General physics
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 15:00-17:10(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

Volker Deckert
Scale Effects in Plasmon-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

3 session - C parallel: Quantum optics
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 13:00-15:10(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

Gabriele De Chiara
Nonclassical energy-change distribution as a witness of non-Markovian quantum dynamics

3 session - A parallel: Many body systems out of equilibrium
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 13:00-15:10(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

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

4 session: Information, classical and quantum dynamics
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 15:30-17:00(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Lajos Diósi
Theorem on von Neumann entropy conjectured from physics of irreversibility

3 session: General physics
Session time: Friday, 31 July 2026 13:00-14:30(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Mark Dykman
The Many Faces of Quantum Fluctuations in Driven Vibrational Systems

2 session: Quantum systems out of equilibrium
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 10:10-12:10(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

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

1 session: Biophysics
Session time: Friday, 31 July 2026 07:50-9:50(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Jens Eisert
Probing thermodynamics and entanglement with bosonic quantum simulators

2 session: Quantum computing
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 10:10-12:10(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Jose Este Jaloveckas, Alexander Shnirman, and Moshe Schechter
Conditional Dynamics of a Dual-Rail Qubit with Asymmetric Erasure Rates

3 session - B parallel: Quantum information
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 13:00-15:10(5^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Jaroslav Fabian
Correlations and spins in 2D materials

2 session - B parallel: Many body systems, dynamics, spins
Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 10:10-12:10(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Victor Flambaum
Nuclear clocks and search for new physics

1 session: General physics
Session time: Saturday, 1 August 2026 08:20-9:50(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Ron Folman
Experiments at the interface of general relativity and quantum mechanics

1 session: General physics
Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 07:50-9:50(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

James Freericks, Abdul Samad Khan, and Nikita Lugovoy
Revisiting the classical-quantum correspondence

3 session: Quantum physics and gravity
Session time: Saturday, 1 August 2026 13:00-15:30(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Michael Galperin
Green's function methods for open molecular systems

3 session - A parallel: Many body systems out of equilibrium
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 13:00-15:10(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Yuval Gefen, Josias Langbehn, George Mouloudakis, Emma King, Raphael Menu, Giovanna Morigi, Igor Gornyi, and Christiane Koch
Quantum Cooling through Measurements

2 session: Quantum computing
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 10:10-12:10(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Ido Avidan, Roee Factor, and David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky
Physical requirements for anomalous thermalization (Mpemba effect)

3 session - A parallel: Quantum dynamics, spin systems
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 13:00-14:40(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Marco Genovese
Single pair measurement of CHSH, negative probabilities and testing relativistic independence through weak measurements.

4 session: Foundations of quantum physics, dedicated to the memory of Luis de la Peña
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 15:30-18:00(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Stefan Gerlich
A New Frontier in Matter-Wave Interferometry: From Large Metal Clusters to Biomolecules

4 session - B parallel: Foundations of quantum physics
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 15:00-17:10(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Mathias Van Den Bossche and Philippe Grangier
Contextual unification of classical and quantum physics

4 session: Foundations of quantum physics, dedicated to the memory of Luis de la Peña
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 15:30-18:00(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

E.K.U. Gross
Interplay of current-induced forces and electronic friction in nanoscale junctions far from equilibrium

2 session: Quantum systems out of equilibrium
Session time: Saturday, 1 August 2026 10:10-12:10(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Shmuel Gurvitz and Dmitri Sokolovski
Time Delay in Tunneling Current and the Tunneling Time

4 session: General physics
Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 14:50-16:50(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Marco Dall'Ara, Martin Koppenhöfer, Florentin Reiter, Thomas Wellens, Simone Montangero, and Walter Hahn
Random layers for quantum optimal control with exponential expressivity

2 session - C parallel: Quantum computing
Session time: Friday, 31 July 2026 10:10-12:10(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

Jonte R Hance, Nicolas Underwood, and Holger F Hofmann
The Quantum Plumber's Problem (or Quantum Advantage in Interaction-Free Interferometric Which-Path Discrimination)

3 session: General physics
Session time: Friday, 31 July 2026 13:00-14:30(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Peter Hänggi
Quantum Brownian Motion: Facts, debatable issues and unsolved issues

1 session: Stochastic and quantum thermodynamics
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 08:20-9:50(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Cheolhee Han, Ravid Malalis, and Eran Sela
Probing the structure of topological entanglement via selective partitioning

2 session - B parallel: Many body systems, dynamics, spins
Session time: Friday, 31 July 2026 10:10-12:10(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Philip Hemmer
Toward entangled spins in nanodiamonds for biosensing

2 session - A parallel: Biophysics, dynamics
Session time: Friday, 31 July 2026 10:10-12:10(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Carsten Henkel
Mesoscopic models for electromagnetic fluctuations in and near conducting media

3 session - B parallel: Quantum thermodynamics and transport
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 13:00-15:10(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Ortwin Hess
Open Quantum Dynamics and Dissipative State Selection in Nanoplasmonic Cavities

1 session: Quantum optics, superfluids out of equilibrium
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 07:50-9:50(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Fabrizio Ramirez, David Villaseñor, and Jorge G Hirsch
Superradiance, Chaos, and Thermalization in Atom–Photon Systems

4 session: Classical and quantum dynamics
Session time: Friday, 31 July 2026 14:50-16:50(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Sean Fancher and Jordan Horowitz
The geometry of nonequilibrium response

3 session - A parallel: Many body systems out of equilibrium
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 13:00-15:10(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Bei-Lok Hu
Vacuum Viscosity

1 session: General physics
Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 07:50-9:50(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Frédéric Chevy
AC transport in ultracold Fermi gases.

3 session - C parallel: Quantum many body systems
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 13:00-15:10(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

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

1 session: General physics
Session time: Saturday, 1 August 2026 08:20-9:50(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Alberto Imparato
Information engine fueled by first–passage times

3 session - B parallel: Quantum information
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 13:00-15:10(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Oleh V. Ivakhneko, Diana O. Shendryk, Sergey N. Shevchenko, and Franco Nori
Fast Nonadiabatic Gates for Quantum Signal Processing via Landau–Zener–Stückelberg–Majorana interferometry

2 session - C parallel: Quantum optics and dynamics
Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 10:10-12:10(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

Andrew N. Jordan
Thermodynamics of Quantum Measurement: Making tunneling particles and vacuum fluctuations work

4 session: General physics
Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 14:50-16:50(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Eytan Katzav, Ofer Biham, and Barak Budnick
Structural Phase Transitions in Evolving Networks Under Different Node-Deletion Mechanisms

4 session - A parallel: General physics - models and methods
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 15:00-17:10(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Nadav Katz
Measuring in the dark - classical and quantum results

2 session - A parallel: General physics
Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 10:10-12:10(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Peter D. Keefe
Phun with Phase Transions of the Quantum Mechanical Kind

3 session - C parallel: Quantum many body systems
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 13:00-15:10(5^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

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

3 session - B parallel: Quantum information
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 13:00-15:10(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Henning Kirchberg
Optimizing Energy Conversion in Feedback-Controlled Nano Processes: Harnessing Time-Dependent Information

3 session - B parallel: Quantum information
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 13:00-15:10(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Stefan Klumpp
Stochastic dynamics of molecular motors and filaments

3 session - B parallel: Biophysics
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 13:00-14:40(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Ronnie Kosloff
Quantum thermodynamics, Quantum control, Quantum gates for open systems

1 session: Stochastic and quantum thermodynamics
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 08:20-9:50(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

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

3 session - A parallel: Quantum structures and dynamics
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 13:00-15:10(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Gershon Kurizki
From Nonlinear to Linear Control of Quantum Information and Thermodynamics

2 session: Quantum thermodynamics, engines
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 10:10-12:10(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Julia Liebert and Gregory Scholes
Operational impact of quantum resources in chemical dynamics

4 session - C parallel: General physics
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 15:00-17:10(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

Baptiste Lorent, Jean-Marc Sparenberg, and David Gaspard
Directionality emergence in 2D and 3D quantum random Lorentz gases

2 session - B parallel: Many body systems, dynamics, spins
Session time: Friday, 31 July 2026 10:10-12:10(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

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

2 session: Quantum thermodynamics, engines
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 10:10-12:10(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Alberto Riccardi and Lorenzo Maccone
Tight Entropic Uncertainty Relations

4 session - B parallel: Foundations of quantum physics
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 15:00-17:10(5^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Joseph Maciejko
Topological Landau theory

3 session - C parallel: Quantum many body systems
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 13:00-15:10(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

Jiří J. Mareš, Václav Špička, and Pavel Hubík
Note on the so-called “big G puzzle”

4 session - C parallel: General physics
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 15:00-17:10(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

Thierry Martin, Ronetti Flavio, and Noé Demazure
Anyon braiding, Fractional Charge, scaling dimension, and statistical angle in the fractional quantum Hall effect

3 session - A parallel: Quantum dynamics, spin systems
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 13:00-14:40(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Gabriel H. S. Aguiar and George E. A. Matsas
A gravitational self-decoherence model and a gentle recovery of the classical world

4 session - A parallel: General physics - models and methods
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 15:00-17:10(5^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Themistoklis Mavrogordatos
Quantum Jumps in Amplitude Bistability: Tracking a Coherent and Invertible State Localization

2 session - A parallel: General physics
Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 10:10-12:10(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

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

1 session: Quantum optics, superfluids out of equilibrium
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 07:50-9:50(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Mikko Möttönen
Autonomous Quantum Heat Engine

2 session: Quantum thermodynamics, engines
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 10:10-12:10(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Lev Mourokh
Vitacrystallography: X-ray diffraction of biological tissues for cancer detection

3 session - B parallel: Biophysics
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 13:00-14:40(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Declan Mulhall
Simple Quantum-Chaotic toy system mimic a range of real nuclear phenomena.

2 session: Quantum systems out of equilibrium
Session time: Saturday, 1 August 2026 10:10-12:10(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Jens D. Berdahl, Andrew F. McDonald, Takaho Tsubakiyama, and Frank A. Narducci
Sensitivity functions and phase scaling in light-pulse atom interferometers

3 session: Quantum optics, cold atoms
Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 13:00-14:30(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Evgenii Narimanov and Eugene Demler
Hyperbolic Quantum Processor

2 session - C parallel: Quantum computing
Session time: Friday, 31 July 2026 10:10-12:10(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

Nir Navon
Emergence of Fermi's Golden Rule in a Quantum Many-body System

3 session - C parallel: Quantum many body systems
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 13:00-15:10(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen
Nonlocality in General Relativity: A missing link in Einstein's quest for a unified field theory

3 session: Quantum physics and gravity
Session time: Saturday, 1 August 2026 13:00-15:30(5^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

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

3 session - A parallel: Many body systems out of equilibrium
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 13:00-15:10(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Stefan Nimmrichter, Dennis Rätzel, Isobel C Bicket, Michael S Seifner, and Philipp Haslinger
Electron-enabled Nanoparticle Diffraction

2 session - A parallel: General physics
Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 10:10-12:10(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Franco Nori
A few recent results on superconducting qubits: (1) one photon simultaneously exciting two qubits; (2) strong coupling between a single photon and a two-photon Fock state; and (3) Thouless pumping

2 session: Quantum computing
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 10:10-12:10(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Tjerk Oosterkamp
Time dilatations for collapse of massive superpositions: An experimentalists view

3 session: General physics
Session time: Friday, 31 July 2026 13:00-14:30(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Masanao Ozawa
Value Reproducibility and Intersubjectivity of Quantum Measurements based on Quantum Perfect Correlations

4 session - B parallel: Foundations of quantum physics
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 15:00-17:10(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Vincenzo Varrica, Giuseppe Falci, Elisabetta Paladino, and Francesco Pellegrino
Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics with two-dimensional material-based Josephson Junctions

2 session - B parallel: Many body systems, dynamics, spins
Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 10:10-12:10(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Jian-wei Pan
Quantum Network: quantum communication, computation, and metrology

1 session: Quantum computing
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 07:50-9:50(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Uri Peskin, Saar Rahav, Yotam Gomeh, and Michael Iv
Boltzmann subspaces and temperatures in systems driven far from equilibrium

2 session: Quantum systems out of equilibrium
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 10:10-12:10(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Walter Pfeiffer, Andreas Gebauer, Luis Maschmann, Nikolay M. Kabachnik, and Eugene E. Krasovskii
Impact of surface scattering on photoelectron escape times

3 session - C parallel: Quantum optics
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 13:00-15:10(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

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

2 session - C parallel: Quantum computing
Session time: Friday, 31 July 2026 10:10-12:10(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

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

2 session - C parallel: Quantum optics and dynamics
Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 10:10-12:10(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

Fabio Pistolesi
Quantum Rabi Model in the slow Oscillator Regime

3 session - C parallel: Quantum optics
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 13:00-15:10(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

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

2 session - C parallel: Quantum computing
Session time: Friday, 31 July 2026 10:10-12:10(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

Michael Prouza
Sources, Frequency Bands, and Instruments: An Overview of Existing and Planned Gravitational-Wave Detectors with a Focus on the Einstein Telescope

1 session: General physics
Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 07:50-9:50(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

David Santiago Quevedo
Out-of-equilibrium stochastic dynamics in power-law viscoelastic and non-Ohmic thermal environments

2 session - B parallel: Many body systems, dynamics, spins
Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 10:10-12:10(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Laura Hoek, Neta Ben Ari, Remi Goerlich, Yael Roichman, and Saar Rahav
Information engines with self-propelling particles

3 session - B parallel: Quantum information
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 13:00-15:10(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Ernst Maria Rasel
Interferometry with Bose-Einstein condensates in extended free fall

1 session: Quantum optics, superfluids out of equilibrium
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 07:50-9:50(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Pietro Oreglia, Andrea Marchese, Daniele Contessi, Alessio Recati, Gianluigi Catelani, Andrea Vinante, and Gianluca Rastelli
Magnetically Levitated Systems Approaching the Quantum Regime

4 session - B parallel: Foundations of quantum physics
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 15:00-17:10(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Linda Reichl
Entanglement Propagation in quantum dots

3 session - A parallel: Quantum structures and dynamics
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 13:00-15:10(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Mirko Rossini, Dennis Herb, Reiner Siebert, Constantinos Simserides, Rosa Di Felice, and Joachim Ankerhold
Charge transfer through DNA - A new perspective from Human Genetics

2 session - A parallel: Biophysics, dynamics
Session time: Friday, 31 July 2026 10:10-12:10(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Georgi Gary Rozenman, Joel Been, Arnaud Lazarus, and John W M Bush
Aharonov–Bohm, Kennard Phase, and Three-Slit Dynamics in Pilot-Wave Hydrodynamics

2 session - A parallel: General physics
Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 10:10-12:10(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Miguel Rubi
Molecular entropic forces and scaling laws in chaperone-driven nanofilament unbundling

1 session: Biophysics
Session time: Friday, 31 July 2026 07:50-9:50(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Ivan Rungger, Lachlan P Lindoy, Daniel Rodrigo-Albert, and Yannic Rath
pyTTN: A tree tensor network based open-source toolbox for open and closed system quantum dynamics simulations and its application in quantum algorithms

4 session - A parallel: General physics - models and methods
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 15:00-17:10(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Peter Samuelsson, Daniel Holst, and Patrick P Potts
Lindblad master equation for deep strong coupling regime of the quantum Rabi model

2 session - C parallel: Quantum optics and dynamics
Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 10:10-12:10(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

Lea F Santos
Dissipation as a Resource: From Transient to Steady-State Chaos

4 session: Classical and quantum dynamics
Session time: Friday, 31 July 2026 14:50-16:50(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Marlan Scully
Quantum optics in curved spacetime: Surprises and insights

3 session: Quantum physics and gravity
Session time: Saturday, 1 August 2026 13:00-15:30(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Udo Seifert
Entropy production and its model-free inference

1 session: Stochastic and quantum thermodynamics
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 08:20-9:50(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Nitay Hurvitz, Alon Kochol, Victor Fleurov, and Eran Sela
Arrow of Time as an Order Parameter for Measurement-Induced Phase Transitions

4 session: General physics
Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 14:50-16:50(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Ephraim Shahmoon
Quantum states and phases underlying collective dissipation phenomena

3 session - A parallel: Quantum dynamics, spin systems
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 13:00-14:40(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Oleksandr Yu. Kitsenko, Sergey N. Shevchenko, Lorenzo Peri, and Franco Nori
Quantum capacitances and resistances of electron boxes and transistors

3 session - C parallel: Quantum information
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 13:00-14:40(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

Yutaka Shikano
Judea Pearl Meets Yakir Aharonov in Wheeler’s Delayed-Choice Experiment

4 session - B parallel: Foundations of quantum physics
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 15:00-17:10(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Dolev Haddad, Herbert A. Fertig, and Efrat Shimshoni
Striped Spin Density Wave in a Graphene/Black Phosphorous Heterostructure

3 session - A parallel: Quantum structures and dynamics
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 13:00-15:10(5^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Adrian Reich, Kiryl Piasotski, Eytan Grosfeld, and Alexander Shnirman
Emergence of multiple zero modes bound to vortices in extended topological Josephson junctions

3 session - C parallel: Quantum many body systems
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 13:00-15:10(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

Sarthak Girdhar, Edvin G. Idrisov, and Thomas L. Schmidt
Fabry–Perot interferometry with stochastic anyonic sources

3 session - C parallel: Quantum optics
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 13:00-15:10(5^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

Peter Schmitteckert
NMR: From Strong-Correlation to Life Sciences

2 session - A parallel: Biophysics, dynamics
Session time: Friday, 31 July 2026 10:10-12:10(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Naser Ahmadiniaz, Dennis Kraft, Gernot Schaller, and Ralf Schuetzhold
Quantum Zeno effect versus adiabatic quantum computing and quantum annealing

1 session: Quantum computing
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 07:50-9:50(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Igor M. Sokolov
Langevin equations with multiplicative noise: The mathematics, physics, and thermodynamics of interpretation.

4 session: Information, classical and quantum dynamics
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 15:30-17:00(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Fernando Sols
Hawking time crystals

4 session: General physics
Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 14:50-16:50(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Luca Cervellera, Alfred Hucht, and Björn Sothmann
Single-spin flip dynamics in the Ising model

2 session - B parallel: Many body systems, dynamics, spins
Session time: Friday, 31 July 2026 10:10-12:10(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Jiří J. Mareš, Václav Špička, and Pavel Hubík
Formation of action potential in neuron and the quantum diffusion of somatic ions

3 session - B parallel: Biophysics
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 13:00-14:40(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

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

3 session: Quantum optics, cold atoms
Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 13:00-14:30(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Jürgen T. Stockburger
Entropy augmentation in irreversible dynamics: A journey from epistemology to numerical simulation.

4 session: Classical and quantum dynamics
Session time: Friday, 31 July 2026 14:50-16:50(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Jędrzej Burkat, Sergii Strelchuk, and Michal Studzinski
The Power of Power-of-SWAP: Postselected Quantum Computation with the Exchange Interaction

3 session - C parallel: Quantum information
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 13:00-14:40(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

Dalibor Štys and Renata Rychtáriková
Point information gain entropy density, and an ideal image from light microscopy

4 session - C parallel: General physics
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 15:00-17:10(5^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

Eugene Sukhorukov and Adrien Tomà
Suppression of quantized heat flow by the dielectric response of a compressible strip at the quantum Hall edge

2 session - B parallel: Many body systems, dynamics, spins
Session time: Friday, 31 July 2026 10:10-12:10(1^st contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Oren Tal
Molecular Archimedean Screw: A torque transfer molecular machine

2 session: Quantum thermodynamics, engines
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 10:10-12:10(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Michael Thoss
Quantum dynamics and thermodynamics using the hierarchical equations of motion method

2 session: Quantum systems out of equilibrium
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 10:10-12:10(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Marc Tornow
What enables efficient long-range charge transport across protein layers?

1 session: Biophysics
Session time: Friday, 31 July 2026 07:50-9:50(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Sabine Tornow
When Does a Quantum System Return? Topology, Dark States, and Noise in Monitored Dynamics

2 session - A parallel: Biophysics, dynamics
Session time: Friday, 31 July 2026 10:10-12:10(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Riku Tuovinen and Yaroslav Pavlyukh
Nonequilibrium Transport and Thermoelectricity in Open Quantum Systems

4 session: Classical and quantum dynamics
Session time: Friday, 31 July 2026 14:50-16:50(3^rd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Yasuhiro Utsumi
Network analysis for steady-state current fluctuations in the presence of finite affinity

2 session - B parallel: Many body systems, dynamics, spins
Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 10:10-12:10(4^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Aida Sadeghi, Fatema Tanjia, and Joan Alfina Vaccaro
The quantum theory of time: Emergence of Lorentz invariance

1 session: General physics
Session time: Thursday, 30 July 2026 07:50-9:50(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Thomas Vojta, Ralf Metzler, and Skirmantas Janusonis
Reflected fractional Brownian motion as model of serotonergic axons in the brain

3 session - B parallel: Biophysics
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 13:00-14:40(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Gregor Weihs
Quantum light sources for foundational tests and quantum communication

4 session: Foundations of quantum physics, dedicated to the memory of Luis de la Peña
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 15:30-18:00(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Mateusz Wiśniewski and Jakub Spiechowicz
Fast directed transport via energy recuperation in non-Markovian media

3 session - B parallel: Quantum thermodynamics and transport
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 13:00-15:10(5^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B

Alexandre Zagoskin
Dissipative and nondissipative quantum circuit elements

3 session - A parallel: Quantum structures and dynamics
Session time: Tuesday, 28 July 2026 13:00-15:10(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Alessandro Tarantola, Alexander Sauer, Johanna Seitz, Jannes Weghake, Freyja Ullinger, Lukas Pausch, and Matthias Zimmermann
Advanced Quantum Networks - Future Applications and Technology Demonstrations

3 session - C parallel: Quantum information
Session time: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 13:00-14:40(2^nd contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C

Hervé Zwirn
Are Events Absolute?

4 session: Foundations of quantum physics, dedicated to the memory of Luis de la Peña
Session time: Monday, 27 July 2026 15:30-18:00(5^th contribution in the session)
Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A

Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics 2026 - FQMT'26

26 July - 1 August 2026, Prague, Czech Republic

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