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