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Preliminary Program – Ultrafast Spintronics Workshop

Tuesday, October 23rd

Morning Session: Optical Switching and Magnetization Dynamics I

08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:10 Theo RASING, Radboud
Opening Remarks
09:20 – 10:20 Bert KOOPMANS, Eindhoven
Tutorial: Merging femtomagnetism with spintronics – Laser-induced spin currents & all-optical switching of spintronic devices
10:30 – 11:00 Markus MÜNZENBERG, Greifswald
On the subtle interplay of light induced magnetization, driven currents and heat in ultrafast magnetism
11:00 – 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 – 11:50 Kihiro YAMADA, Nijmegen
Efficient all-optical helicity-dependent switching in Pt/Co/Pt with dual laser pulses
12:00 – 12:30 Anna POGREBNA, Nijmegen
Ultrafast Magnetization Dynamics in High Magnetic Fields
12:40 – 15:00 Lunch & Poster Session

Afternoon Session: Optical Switching and Magnetization Dynamics II

15:00 – 16:00 Peter OPPENEER, Uppsala
Tutorial: Fundamentals of light-driven ultrafast spin dynamics in magnetic materials
16:10 – 16:40 Sangeeta SHARMA, Berlin
Ultrafast optical switching by laser induced inter-site spin transfer
16:40 – 17:00 Coffee break & Poster Session
17:00 – 17:30 Carl DAVIES, Nijmegen
Thermally-controlled magnetization dynamics in a dielectric iron-garnet

Wednesday, October 24th

Morning Session: Antiferromagnetic Optospintronics I

09:00 – 10:00 Rostislav MIKHAILOVSKIY, Nijmegen
Tutorial: Terahertz nonlinear spin control
10:10 – 10:40 Olena GOMONAY, Mainz
Femtosecond dynamics of antiferromagnets and entangled magnon states
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee break & Poster Session
11:00 – 11:30 Chiara CICCARELLI, Cambridge
Ultrafast readout of a ferromagnet and antiferromagnet
11:40 – 12:10 Anatoly ZVEZDIN, Moscow
Phase Transitions and Ultrafast Spin Dynamics in Ferrimagnets with Compensation Point
12:20 – 12:50 Enrique DEL BARCO, Florida
High-Frequency Spin Pumping from Antiferromagnetic Insulator MnF2
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch & Poster Session

Afternoon Session: Towards Technologies

14:30 – 15:30 Bernard DIENY, INAC
Tutorial: Impact of intergrain spin transfer torques due to huge thermal gradients in heat assisted magnetic recording
15:40 – 16:10 Mo LI, Minnesota
Ultrafast All-Optical Switching of Magnetic Tunnel Junctions With Sub-Picosecond Infrared Laser Pulses
16:10 – 16:30 Coffee break & Poster Session
16:30 – 17:00 Dries VAN THOURHOUT, Ghent
Silicon Photonics
17:10 – 17:40 Martijn HECK, Aarhus
Optical Networks On Chip – Enabling Future Memory
17:50 – 18:20 Jeffrey BOKOR, Berkeley
Picosecond magnetic switching by pure charge current pulses
19:30 Conference Dinner
Restaurant Heilig Geist Rentengasse 2 | 55116 Mainz

Thursday, October 25th

Morning Session: Antiferromagnetic Optospintronics II

09:00 – 10:00 Davide BOSSINI, Dortmund
Tutorial: Ultrafast optical manipulation of magnetic materials
10:10 – 10:40 Kamil OLEJNIK, Prague
Anitferromagnetic memory with ultrafast writing speed
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee break & Poster Session
11:00 – 11:30 Wangxiang FENG, Beijing
Topological Magneto-Optical Effect and Its Quantization in Noncoplanar Antiferromagnets
11:40 – 12:10 Lucian PREJBEANU, INAC
Ultrafast MRAM strategies for cache applications and beyond
12:20 – 14:00 Lunch & Discussion

Afternoon Session: Ultrafast Spinorbitronics

14:00 – 15:00 Stephane MANGIN, Nancy
Tutorial: Femto-Second Light and Electron Pulses to switch magnetisation
15:10 – 15:40 Wolfgang HÜBNER, Kaiserslautern
First-principles approach to ultrafast logic functionalization of magnetic molecules
15:40 – 16:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session
16:00 – 16:30 Frank FREIMUTH, Julich
Photocurrents in magnetic bilayers for ultrafast spinorbitronics

Friday, October 26th

Morning Session: New Techniques and Developments

09:00 – 10:00 Martin WEINELT, Berlin
Tutorial: Ultrafast spin and magnetization dynamics in rare earth metals
10:10 – 10:40 Konstantin ZVEZDIN, Moscow
Spin pumping and probe in permalloy dots-topological insulator bilayers
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Felix WILLEMS, Berlin
Magneto-optical constants and their transient changes in ultrafast XUV spectroscopy
11:40 – 12:00 Yuriy MOKROUSOV, Radboud
Closing Remarks
12:50 – 14:00 Lunch
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Spin Cavitronics

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Back , Christian: Dynamic detection of spin orbit fields
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Bertet, Patrice: Circuit-QED-enhanced magnetic resonance
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Blanter, Yaroslav: Light scattering in cavity optomagnonics
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Ciccarelli, Chiara: Writing, reading and dissipationlessly transferring spin via charge
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Flatte, Michael: Designing magnonic crystals for quantum control
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Gönnenwein, Sebastian: Spin current transport in magnetic insulator/metal heterostructures
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Haigh, James: Enhanced Brillouin light scattering in magneto-optical cavities
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Hu, Can-Ming: Cavity Spintronics icon-document-red icon-video-red
Huebl, Hans: Spin-Photon Hybrids icon-document-red icon-video-red
Kläui , Mathias: Spintronics with magnetic insulators
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Kontos, Takis: Mesoscopic quantum electrodynamics with carbon nanotubes
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Kroner, Martin/ Imamoglu, Atac: Quantum optics and magnetism in 2D materials
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Kusminskiy, Silvia: Cavity Optomagnonics nonlinear dynamics and textures
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Nunnenkamp, Andreas: Cavity optomechanics, nonreciprocity and synchronization
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Polzik , Eugene: Quantum photonic interface between spin and mechanical oscillators
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Rauschenbeutel, Arno: Nonreciprocal Quantum Optical Devices Based on Chiral Interaction of Confined Light with Spin-Polarized Atoms icon-document-black icon-video-red
Saitoh, Eiji: Insulator based spin current physics icon-document-black icon-video-red
Schmidt, Georg: Making high quality freestanding magnon nanoresonators
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Takeda, Kazuyuki: Electro-mechano-optical detection of nuclear magnetic resonance
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Tang, Hong: Cavity Electrodynamics of Magnons icon-document-black icon-video-red
Taylor, Jake: Spin-photon interfaces and quantum transduction
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Tobar, Michael: Low Temperature mK Experiments Coupling Photons with Magnon and Spins
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Tserkovnyak, Yaroslav: Collective spin transport in insulators
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Usami, Koji: Magnonics in the quantum regime icon-document-red icon-video-red
Weides , Martin: Electro-magnetic and -magnonic cooperativity
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Yacoby, Amir: Nanoscale Magnetometry icon-document-black icon-video-red
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Preliminary Program - Spintronics meets Neuromorphics

Monday, October 8th

Morning Session Session Topic: Artificial Neural Networks

08:30 - 9:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:10 Opening remarks
09:10 – 10:10 Teodora PETRISOR, Thales Group
Tutorial: The Landscape of Deep Learning: a Quick Overview
10:20 – 11:20 Eleni VASILAKI, University of Sheffield
Tutorial: Reinforcement Learning
11:20– 11:40 Coffee Break
11:40 – 12:10 Tetsuo ENDOH, CIES Tohoku University
Hardware ANNs using MTJ-based memories
12:10 – 14:00 Lunch Break & Poster Session

Afternoon Session Session Topic: Novelties in Magnetism-based Computing

14:00 – 14:30 Theo RASING, Radboud University
All-optical switching and brain-inspired concepts for low energy information processing
14:30– 15:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session
15:00 – 16:00 Wolfgang POROD, University of Notre Dame
Tutorial: Computing with magnetic dots and spintronic dynamical systems

Tuesday, October 9th

Morning Session Session Topic: Magnetic Solitons & Applications

09:00 – 10:00 Axel HOFFMANN, Argonne National Laboratory
Tutorial: Manipulating magnetic Skyrmions
10:10 – 10:40 Johan AKERMAN, Gothenburg University
Mutually synchronized spin Hall nano-oscillator arrays
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session
11:00 – 11:30 Ferran MACIA, Universita de Barcelona
Computing with Spin-Wave Solitons
11:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break & Poster Session

Afternoon Session Session Topic: Spin-Wave Logic and Memcomputing

14:00 – 14:30 Weisheng ZHAO, Beihang University
Skyrmions based Neuromorphic Computing
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session
15:00 – 15:30 Massimiliano DI VENTRA, UCSD
MemComputing: leveraging physics to compute efficiently

Wednesday, October 10th

Morning Session Session Topic: Criticality and Non-Linearity as Fundamental Neuromorphic Elements

09:00 – 10:00 Dante CHIALVO, CEMSC3-UNSAM
Tutorial: Critical brain dynamics, a brief overview
10:10 – 10:40 Damien QUERLIOZ, Integnano – C2N
Bioinspired Computing Leveraging the Non-Linearity of Magnetic Nano-Oscillators
10:40 – 11:10 Coffee Break & Poster Session
11:10 – 11:40 Shunsuke FUKAMI, Tohoku University
Associative memory operation using analog spin-orbit torque device
11:40 – 14:00 Lunch Break & Poster Session

Afternoon Session Session Topic: Spin Logic

14:00 – 15:00 Laura HEYDERMAN, ETH Zurich
Tutorial: Artificial Spin Ice and Elements of Control for Computation
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break & Poster Session
15:30 – 16:30 Philipp PIRRO, TU Kaiserslautern
Tutorial: Spin-wave logic: from Boolean to neuromorphic computing
18:00 – 20:00 Conference Dinner
Restaurant Schwayer Göttelmannstraße 40 | 55131 Mainz
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Thursday, October 11th

Morning Session Session Topic: Reservoir Computing

09:00 – 10:00 Daniel BRUNNER, Femto-ST
Tutorial: Reservoir Computing
10:10 – 10:40 Mark STILES, NIST
Reservoir Computing with Spin-Torque nano-oscillators
10:40 – 11:10 Coffee Break & Poster Session
11:10 – 11:40 George BOURIANOFF, Intel Corporation – retired
Reservoir computing implemented with skyrmion fabrics
11:40 – 14:00 Lunch Break & Poster Session

Afternoon Session Session Topic: Stochastic computing

14:00 – 15:00 Tara HAMILTON, Western Sydney University
Tutorial: Stochastic Computing Hardware
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break & Poster Session
15:30 – 16:00 Alice MIZRAHI, NIST
Unconventional computing with stochastic magnetic tunnel junctions

Friday, October 12th

Morning Session Session Topic: Perspectives on Spintronic Computing

09:00 – 10:00 Kerem CAMSARI, Purdue University
Tutorial: p-bits for Probabilistic Spin Logic
10:10 – 10:40 Amalio FERNANDEZ-PACHECO, University of Cambridge
Perspectives on 3D Spintronics
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break and announcement of winners of the Poster Prize
11:00 – 11:30 Alexander Ako KHAJETOORIANS, Radboud University
Realization of the Hopfield model in finite size Ising systems with RKKY type interactions
11:40 – 12:10 Giovanni FINOCCHIO, UNIME
Spintronic devices for unconventional computing
12:10 – 12:40 Closing remarks
12:40 – 14:00 Lunch Break
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Quantum Thermodynamics and Transport

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Crepieux, Adeline Emission noise in an interacting quantum dot: Role of inelastic scattering and asymmetric coupling to the reservoirs icon-document-red icon-video-red
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Splettstösser, Janine Thermoelectrics of interacting nanosystems icon-document-red icon-video-red
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Participants - Spin Cavitronics

  • Bartolo Albanese (CEA Saclay)
  • Aisha Aqeel (University of Regensburg)
  • Christian Back (TU Munich)
  • Gerrit Bauer (Tohoku University Sendai)
  • Patrice Bertet ( Saclay University)
  • Victor Bittencourt (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light)
  • Yaroslav Blanter (Delft University)
  • Isabella Rahel Boventer (Institute of Physics, University Mainz, 55128 Mainz, Germany)
  • Thomas Brächer (TU Kaiserslautern)
  • Andrii Chumak (TU Kaiserslautern)
  • Chiara Ciccarelli (University of Cambridge)
  • Marius Costache (ICN2: Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology)
  • Tino Cubaynes ()
  • Mehrdad Elyasi (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University)
  • Michael Flatte (University of Iowa)
  • Arnaud Gloppe (The University of Tokyo)
  • Sebastian Gönnenwein (Technical University Dresden)
  • Jasmin Graf (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light)
  • Yongsheng Gui (Department of Physics, University of Manitoba)
  • James Haigh (Hitachi-Cambridge Laboratory)
  • Burkard Hillebrands (Technical University Kaiserslautern)
  • Can-Ming Hu (University of Manitoba)
  • Hans Huebl (TU Munich)
  • Atac Imamoglu (ETH Zurich)
  • Øyvind Johansen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
  • Gavin King (University of Otago)
  • Mathias Kläui (JGU Mainz)
  • Takis Kontos (LPA Paris)
  • Sandoko Kosen (University of Oxford)
  • Silvia Kusminskiy (MPI, Erlangen)
  • Peter Makk (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
  • Florian Marquard (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light)
  • Lauren McKenzie-Sell (University of Cambridge)
  • Yijian Meng (Vienna Center of Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ), TU Wien)
  • Fanqi Meng (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat)
  • Yosuke Nakata (The University of Tokyo)
  • Andreas Nunnenkamp (University of Cambridge)
  • Philipp Pirro (TU Kaiserslautern)
  • Eugene Polzik (University of Copenhagen)
  • Arno Rauschenbeutel (University of Viena)
  • Cosimo Carlo Rusconi (IQOQI / Uni Innsbruck)
  • Maximilian Russ (University of Konstanz)
  • Eiji Saitoh (Tohoku University Sendai)
  • Koji Sato (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University)
  • Zoltán Scherübl (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
  • Georg Schmidt (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
  • Michael Schneider (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern)
  • Werner Schumacher (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig)
  • Sanchar Sharma (Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology)
  • Simon Streib (TU Delft)
  • Kazuyuki Takeda (University of Kyoto)
  • Hong Tang (Yale University)
  • Jake Taylor (University of Maryland)
  • Rodrigo Thomas (University of Copenhagen)
  • Michael Tobar (University of Western Australia)
  • Yaroslav Tserkovnyak (University of California Los Angeles)
  • Koji Usami (University of Tokyo)
  • Vitaliy Vasyuchka (Research Center OPTIMAS and Fachbereich Physik, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany)
  • Yuyan Wang (Universität Regensburg)
  • Stefan Weichselbaumer (Walther-Meißner-Institut, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
  • Martin Weides (School of Engineering, University of Glasgow )
  • Tim Wolz (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT))
  • Pengchao Xu ()
  • Amir Yacoby (Harvard University)
  • Wenjing Yan (University of Oxford)
  • Tao Yu (University of Science and Technology of China)
  • Tony Zhou (Harvard University)
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Participants - Quantum Thermodynamics and Transport

  • Obinna Abah (Queen's University of Belfast)
  • Liliana Arrachea (Buenos Aires University)
  • Pavel Aseev (University of Basel)
  • Giuliano Benenti (University of Insubria)
  • Bibek Bhandari (NEST, Scuola Normale Superiore and Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR)
  • A. Mert Bozkurt (Sabanci University)
  • Jean-Philippe Brantut (EPFL, Lausanne)
  • Giulio Casati (Insubria University)
  • Adeline Crépieux (Aix-Marseille University)
  • Bivas Dutta (CNRS, Institut Néel)
  • Paolo Andrea Erdman ()
  • Rosario Fazio (ICTP, Trieste)
  • Radim Filip (Palacky University)
  • Michele Filippone (University of Geneva)
  • Hava Friedman (University of Toronto)
  • Thierry Giamarchi (University of Geneva)
  • Francesco Giazotto (SNS, Pisa)
  • Christian Gogolin (ICFO)
  • Olena Gomonay (JGU, Mainz)
  • Giacomo Guarnieri (Palacký University Olomouc)
  • Patrick Haughian (University of Luxembourg)
  • Sun-Yong Hwang (University of Duisburg-Essen)
  • Andrew Jordan (University of Rochester)
  • Bayan Karimi (Aalto University)
  • Stefan Kehrein (University of Göttingen)
  • Andrew Keller (Caltech)
  • Andisheh Khedri (Institut für Theorie der statistischen Physik, RWTH)
  • Michal Kolář (Palacký University Olomouc)
  • Björn Kubala (Universität Ulm)
  • Heiner Linke (University of Lund)
  • Rosa Lopez (Universitat de les Illes Balears)
  • Florencia Ludovico (SISSA, Trieste)
  • Conor McConnell (University of Manchester)
  • Yigal Meir (Ben Gurion University )
  • Paul Menczel (Aalto University)
  • Julia Meyer (CEA, Grenoble)
  • Harry Miller (University of Exeter)
  • Mark Mitchison (Universität Ulm)
  • Ciprian Padurariu (Ulm University)
  • Alba Pascual (Centro de Física de Materiales, CSIC/UPV)
  • Mauro Paternostro (Queen’s University of Belfast)
  • Arjendu Pattanayak (Carleton College)
  • Jukka Pekola (Aalto University)
  • Simon Pigeon (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, CNRS)
  • Dario Poletti (Singapore University for Technology and Design)
  • Tomaz Prosen (University of Ljubljana)
  • Krzysztof Ptaszyński (Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)
  • Gianluca Rastelli (University of Konstanz)
  • Peter Samuelsson (Lund University)
  • David Sánchez (University of the Balearic Islands)
  • Cristina Sanz Fernández (Centro de Física de Materiales (CFM-MPC), Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU)
  • Dries Sels (Boston University)
  • Jorden Senior (Aalto University)
  • Abhay Shastry (University of Arizona)
  • Janine Splettstösser (Chalmers University)
  • Fabio Taddei (NEST, NANO-CNR & Scuola Normale Superiore)
  • Peter Talkner (University of Augsburg)
  • Raam Uzdin ()
  • Libin Wang (Aalto University)
  • Robert Whitney (CNRS, Grenoble)
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Preliminary Program – Young Research Leaders Group Workshop

Non-linear dynamics and magnetic textures in cavity optomagnonics

Tuesday, July 10th

Morning Session Session Topic: Gauge fields and topology (chair: Héctor Ochoa)

08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:30 Jairo Sinova, JGU Mainz
Opening Remarks
09:30 – 10:30 Monika Aidelsburger, LMU München
Floquet engineering with interacting ultracold atoms
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee & Discussion
11:00 – 12:00 Hannah Price, Birmingham
Exploring higher-dimensional topological physics with ultracold atoms and photons
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch & Discussion

Afternoon Session Session Topic: Driven systems and fractons (chair: Michael Buchhold)

14:00 – 15:00 Michael Knap, TU München
Quantum Thermalization Dynamics: From Information Scrambling to Emergent Hydrodynamics
15:00 – 16:00 Renate Landig, Harvard
Time crystals in strongly interacting dipolar spin systems
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee & Discussion
16:30 – 17:30 Olga Petrova, ENS
Fractons: a new pathway to topological order in 3D

Wednesday, July 11th

Morning Session Session Topic: Light matter interaction (chair: Renate Landig)

09:00 – 10:00 Silvia Viola-Kuminskiy, Max Planck
Non-linear dynamics and magnetic textures in cavity optomagnonics
10:00 – 11:00 Fahad Mahmood, Johns Hopkins
Illuminating and manipulating quantum materials with femptosecond light
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee & Discussion
11:30 – 12:30 Loïc Henriet, ICFO
Many-body sub radiant decay dynamics in 1D light-matter systems
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch & Discussion

Afternoon Session Session Topic: Thermal Hall (chair: Adolfo G. Grushin)

14:30 – 15:30 Mitali Banerjee, Weizmann
Quantization of heat flow in the fractional quantum hall regime
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee & Discussion
16:00 – 17:00 David Mross, Weizmann
Theory of Disorder-Induced Half-Integer Thermal Hall Conductance

Thursday, July 12th

Morning Session Session Topic: Non-equilibrium dynamics (chair: Ana Asenjo-Garcia)

09:30 – 10:30 Maksym Serbyn, IST Austria
Quantum Many-Body Scars
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee & Discussion
11:00 – 12:00 Michael Buchhold, Caltech
Phenomenology of a First Order Dark State Phase Transition
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch & Discussion

Afternoon Session Session Topic: Quantum impurities in diamond (chair: Kyoung-Whan Kim)

14:00 – 15:00 Benedetta Flebus, UCLA
Quantum-impurity relaxometry of magnetic dynamics
15:00– 15:30 Coffee & Discussion
15:30 – 16:30 Brian Zhou, Chicago
Driving the Quantum Dynamics of Single Diamond Spins with Light
18:30 – 20:00 Conference Dinner
Restaurant Heilig Geist Rentengasse 2 | 55116 Mainz

Friday, July 13th

Morning Session Session Topic: Topological materials (chair: Mitali Banerjee)

09:00 – 10:00 Monica Allen, Stanford
Visualizing and manipulating electrons in topological materials 
10:00 – 11:00 Adolfo G. Grushin, Institut Néel
Large and quantized non-linear responses in topological metals
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee & Discussion
11:30 – 12:30 Justin Song, NTU Singapore
Spontaneous out-of-equilibrium plasmonic magnetism
12:30 – 13:00 Ana Asenjo-Garcia, Caltech & Héctor Ochoa, UCLA & Kyoung-Whan Kim, Mainz
Closing Remarks
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Ultrafast Spintronics: from Fundamentals to Technology

Mainz, Germany: October 23rd - 26th 2018

 

The 21st century digital economy and technology is presently facing fundamental scaling limits (heating and the superparamagnetic limit) as well as societal challenges: the move to mobile devices and the increasing demand of cloud storage leads to an enormous increase in energy consumption of our ICT infrastructure. These developments require new strategies and paradigm shifts, such as spin-based technologies and the introduction of photonic processors. Currently, photons are used for information transport, electrons for processing and spins for storage. Future developments will require integration of these separate technologies. Spintronic or spin-based memory such as Spin-torque transfer magnetic Random Access Memory (STT-RAM) is one concept that may revolutionize memory technology. The ability to control spins and macroscopic magnetic ordering by means of femtosecond laser pulses provides an alternative and energy efficient approach to magnetic recording. But this will only provide a novel and energy efficient alternative to current data storage if spintronics can be integrated with photonics. Such integration may also allow faster spin logic. Antiferromagnetic materials may provide another alternative for fast spintronics, but there are still many challenges. In this workshop we want to discuss recent developments in this exciting field as well as the challenges that lay ahead.

 

Organizers

Yuriy Mokrousov, Julich
Theo Rasing, Radboud

Invited Speakers

Marie Barthelemy, Strasbourg
Jeffrey Bokor, Berkeley
Davide Bossini, Dortmund
Chiara Cicarelli, Cambridge
Enrique Del Barco, Florida
Carl Davies, Nijmegen
Bernard Dieny, INAC
Stefan Eisebitt, Berlin
Wanxiang Feng, Beijing
Frank Freimuth, Julich
Olena Gomonay, Mainz
Martjin Heck, Aarhus
Wolfgang Hübner, Kaiserslautern
Bert Koopmans, Eindhoven
Mo Li, University of Washington
Stephane Mangin, Nancy
Rostislav Mikhaylovskiy, Nijmegen
Markus Munzenberg, Greifswald
Kamil Olejnik, Prague
Peter Oppeneer, Uppsala
Thomas Ostler, Sheffield
Anna Pogrebna, Nijmegen
Lucian Prejbeanu, INAC
Sangeeta Sharma, Halle
Dries van Thourhout, Ghent University
Clemens von Korff Schmising, Berlin
Martin Weinelt, Berlin
Kihiro Yamada, Nijmegen
Konstantin A. Zvezdin, Moscow
Anatoly K. Zvezdin, Moscow
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Young Research Leaders Group Workshop:
Collective phenomena in driven quantum systems

Mainz, Germany: July 10th - 12th 2018

  • Monika Aidelsburger (LMU München)
  • Monica Allen (Stanford)
  • Ana Asenjo-Garcia (Caltech)
  • Mitali Banerjee (Weizmann)
  • Michael Buchhold (Caltech)
  • Benedetta Flebus (UCLA)
  • Adolfo G. Grushin (UC Berkeley & Institut Néel)
  • Loïc Henriet (ICFO)
  • Kyoung-Whan Kim (JGU Mainz)
  • Michael Knap (TU München)
  • Renate Landig (Harvard)
  • Fahad Mahmood (Johns Hopkins)
  • David Mross (Weizmann)
  • Hector Ochoa (UCLA)
  • Olga Petrova (ENS)
  • Hannah Price (Birmingham)
  • Maksym Serbyn (IST Austria)
  • Justin Song NTU (Singapore)
  • Silvia Viola-Kusminskiy (Max Planck)
  • Brian Zhou (Chicago)
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Program - Quantum Thermodynamics and Transport

 

 

Tuesday, May 8th

Morning Session Session Topic: Quantum Dots

08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:10 David SÁNCHEZ, University of the Balearic Islands
Opening Remarks
09:10 – 10:10 Heiner LINKE, University of Lund
Tutorial: Quantum-dot heat engines
10:10 – 10:30 Coffee Break & Poster Session
10:30 – 11:00 Rosa LOPEZ, University of the Balearic Islands
Dynamical Coulomb blockade of thermal transport
11:10 – 11:40 Yigal MEIR, Ben Gurion University
How to measure the entropy of a mesoscopic system
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch & Poster Session

Afternoon Session Session Topic: Mesoscopics

13:30 – 14:00 Andrew KELLER, Caltech
Universal Fermi liquid crossover and quantum criticality in a mesoscopic system
14:10 – 14:40 Gianluca RASTELLI, University of Konstanz
Quantum phase transition with dissipative frustration
14:40 – 15:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session
15:00 – 16:00 Liliana ARRACHEA, Buenos Aires University
Tutorial: Quantum charge and energy transport in mesoscopic systems and topological nanostructures
16:00 – 16:20 Coffee Break & Poster Session
16:20 – 16:50 Janine SPLETTSTÖSSER, Chalmers University
Thermoelectrics of interacting nanosystems - Exploiting fermion-parity superselection instead of time-reversal symmetry
17:00 – 17:30 Robert WHITNEY, CNRS Grenoble
Non-Markovian quantum thermodynamics: laws and fluctuation theorems

Wednesday, May 9th

Morning Session Session Topic: Cold atoms and quantum dots

10:00 – 11:00 Jean-Philippe BRANTUT, Lausanne
Tutorial: Transport measurements with cold atoms
11:10 – 11:40 Dario POLETTI, Singapore
Many-body open quantum systems: transport and localization
11:40 – 12:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session
12:00 – 12:30 Florencia LUDOVICO, SISSA Trieste
Probing the energy reactance with adiabatically driven quantum dots
12:40 – 15:00 Lunch Break & Poster Session

Afternoon Session Session Topic: Heat and Thermoelectrics

15:00 – 16:00 Giuliano BENENTI, University of Insubria
Tutorial: Power-efficiency trade-off in thermoelectricity: From scattering theory to interacting systems
16:10 – 16:40 Tomaz PROSEN, University of Ljubljana
Many-body Quantum Chaos: Analytic connections to Random Matrix Theory
16:40 – 17:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session
17:00 – 17:30 Rosario FAZIO, ICTP Trieste
Thermal drag
17:40 – 18:40 QTTS Society Meeting

Thursday, May 10th

Morning Session Session Topic: Strongly Correlated Systems

09:00 – 10:00 Thierry GIAMARCHI, University of Geneva
Tutorial: Transport in one dimensional quantum systems
10:10 – 10:40 Dries SELS, Boston University
Minimizing losses by variational counter-diabatic driving
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session
11:00 – 11:30 Julia MEYER, CEA Grenoble
Non-equilibrium quasi-particles in disordered superconductors
11:40 – 12:10 Peter SAMUELSSON, University of Lund
Nanoscale Quantum Calorimetry with Electronic Temperature Fluctuations
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break & Poster Session

Afternoon Session Session Topic: Heat, Work and Dissipation

13:30 – 14:30 Andrew JORDAN, University of Rochester
Tutorial: Charge and Heat transport in mesoscopic conductors: How to build an engine
14:40 – 15:10 Peter TALKNER, University of Augsburg
Role of work in matter exchange between finite quantum systems
15:20 – 15:50 Stefan KEHREIN, University of Göttingen
Irreversibility in closed quantum-many body systems
15:50 – 16:10 Coffee Break & Poster Session
16:10 – 16:40 Mauro PATERNOSTRO, Queen’s University of Belfast
Irreversible entropy production in non-equilibrium quantum processes
16:50 – 17:20 Radim FILIP, Palacky University Olomouc
Work and information from thermal states after subtraction of energy quanta

Friday, May 11th

Morning Session Session Topic: Superconductivity and Fluctuations

09:00 – 10:00 Francesco GIAZOTTO, SNS Pisa
Tutorial: Superconductivity: The coherence in thermal transport
10:00 – 10:20 Coffee Break 
10:20 – 10:50 Adeline CREPIEUX, University of Marseille
Emission noise in an interacting quantum dot: Role of inelastic scattering and asymmetric coupling to the reservoirs
11:00 – 11:30 Bayan KARIMI, Aalto University
Detecting heat current noise by a non-invasive electron thermometer
11:30 – 11:50 Jairo SINOVA, University of Mainz
Closing Remarks
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
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