312 Final Programme

17:00 - 19:00

Registration at ESF Desk

19:30

Welcome Drink

20:00

Dinner

08:30 - 09:00

Welcome Address
Aigars Ekers - European Science Foundation
Pasquale Sodano - Università di Perugia

Session 1: Quantum Systems

09:00 -  09:40

Peter Zoller - Institut für Theoretische Physik, AT
Quantum Hybrid Systems Involving Atomic and Nanomechanical Oscillators

09:40 - 10:20

Vladimir Umansky - Weizmann Institute, IL
Engineering of Disorder in MBE grown Ultra-High Mobility Two Dimensional Electron System

10:20 - 10:35

Alberto Amo - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, ENS and CNRS, FR
Superfluidity of Polaritons In Engineered Potentials in Semiconductor Microcavities
(short talk)

10:35 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:40

Hans Mooij - Delft University of Technology, NL
Flux qubits: full tunability, qubit-qubit interaction and qubit-resonator coupling

11:40 - 11:55

Alina Hriscu - Delft University of Technology, NL
Quantum phase-slip oscillator:few photons non-linearities
(short talk)

11:55 - 12:35

Alex Retkzer - University of Ulm, DE
Structural defects in ion crystals by quenching the external potential: the inhomogeneous Kibble-Zurek mechanism

12:35 - 12:50

Martijn Wubs - Technical University of Denmark, DK
Fast quantum state preparation of spin qubits in diamond with strong microwave pulses
(short talk)

12:50

Lunch

Session 2: Quantum Entanglement (I)

14:30 - 15:10

Sougato Bose - University College London, UK
Entanglement across a separation in spin chains: statics & dynamics

15:10 - 15:50

Paolo Zanardi - University Southern California, US
Long time dynamics of a quantum quench

15:50 - 16:05

Abolfazl Bayat - University College London, UK
Entanglement in the Kondo spin Chain
(short talk)

16:05 - 16:25

Coffee Break

16:25 - 17:05

Roberto Floreanini - INFN, IT
Using entangled identical particles for sub-shot-noise quantum metrology

17:05 - 17:45

Masudul Haque - Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems, DE
Hierarchy of edge-locking effects in quantum one-dimensional lattice models

17:45 - 18:00

Oliver Buerschaper - Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, DE
A hierarchy of topological tensor network states
(short talk)

18:00 - 18:40

Vlatko Vedral - University of Oxford, UK
Entanglement and topological order in self-dual cluster states

19:00

Dinner

20:30 - 22:00

Poster Session I

Session 3: Modern Trends in Field Theory (I)

08:45 – 09:25

Ian Affleck - University of British Columbia, CA
Non-equilibrium transport through double quantum dot devices: A non-Fermi liquid critical point

09:25 - 10:05

Henrik Johanneson - University of Gothenburg, SE
Two-impurity Kondo model with spin-orbit interactions

10:05 - 10:20

Domenico Giuliano - Universita’ della Calabria, IT
Local pairing of Cooper Pairs in Josephson junction networks
(short talk)

10:20 – 10:35

Group Photo

10:35 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:40

Lorenzo Campos-Venuti - ISI Foundation, IT
The fidelity approach, criticalitity, and boundary-CFT

11:40 - 12:20

Reinhold Egger - Heinrich-Heine-Universität, DE
Superconducting molecular quantum dots

12:20 - 12:35

Igor Karnaukhov - Institute of Metal Physics, UA
Strongly interacting Luttinger liquid state as electronic state inherent in carbon nanotubes
(short talk)

12:35 - 12:50

Thierry Martin - Université de la Méditerranée, FR
Dynamic response of a mesoscopic capacitor in the presence of strong electron interactions
(short talk)

12:50 - 13:05

Rosa Lopez - University of the Balearic Islands, ES
The Two-impurity Anderson Model Revisited: Competition between Kondo Effect and Reservoir-mediated Superexchange in Double Quantum Dots
(short talk)

13:05

Lunch

Session 4: Quantum States (I)

14:30 - 15:10

Rainer Blatt - Universtität Innsbruck, AT
Quantum Information Science with Trapped Ca+ Ions

15:10 - 15:50

Hans Briegel - Institut für Theoretische Physik, AT
Quantum effects in biological systems

15:50 - 16:05

Diego Porras - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ES
Anderson localization induced by quantum disorder in trapped ions
(short talk)

16:05 - 16:20

Javier Cerrillo Moreno - Universität Ulm, DE
Fast and Robust Laser Cooling of Trapped Quantum Systems
(short talk)

16:20 - 16:40

Coffee break

Session 5: Quantum Interferometry

16:40 - 17:20

Augusto Smerzi - BEC-INFM, IT
Entanglement and Distinguishability of Quantum States

17:20 - 18:00

Rosario Fazio - Scuola Normale Superiore, IT
The Quantum optical Josephson interferometer

18:00 – 18:30

Christian Gross - University of Heidelberg, DE
Nonlinear atom interferometry beyond the standard quantum limit

18:30 - 19:00

Philipp Treutlein - MPQ/LMU Munich and University of Basel, CH
Atom-chip-based generation of entanglement for quantum metrology

19:00

Dinner

20:30 - 22:00

Poster Session II

Session 6: Topological Field Theory & Quantum Computation

08:45 - 09:25

Ady Stern - Weizmann Institute, IL
Proposed experiments for observing non-abelian anyons in quantum Hall states

09:25 - 10:05

Lachezar Georgiev - Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, BG
Thermal broadening of the Coulomb blockade peaks in quantum Hall interferometers

10:05 - 10:20

Beni Yoshida - MIT, US
Quantum code with translation and scale symmetries
(short talk)

10:20 - 10:40

Coffee Break

10:40 - 11:20

Giuseppe Mussardo - SISSA, IT
Non-Abelian Anyons and Topological Quantum Computation

11:20 - 12:00

Jiannis Pachos - University of Leeds, UK
Anyonic quantum walks: The Drunken Slalom

12:00 - 12:15

Diego Frustaglia - Universidad de Sevilla, ES
Electronic entanglement via quantum Hall interferometry in analogy to an optical method
(short talk)

12:15 - 12:30

Marie Chistina Diamantini - University of Perugia, IT
Lecture
(short talk)

12:30

Lunch

14:00

Half-day free time

19:00

Dinner

20:00 - 21:00

Forward Look Plenary Discussion

Session 7: Quantum Entanglement (II)

08:45 - 09:25

Alioscia Hamma - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, UK
Topological Renyi Entropy

09:25 - 10:05

Jacopo Catani - LENS, University of Firenze, IT
Towards quantum magnetism with ultracold mixtures of bosonic atoms

10:05 - 10:20

Javier Molina - Technical University of Cartagena, IT
Correlations and Entanglement between Disjoint Blocks in Critical Models
(short talk)

10:20 - 10:40

Coffee break

10:40 - 10:55

Heung-Sun Sim - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KR
Distillation and determination of unknown two-qubit entanglement via local filtering
(short talk)

10:55 - 11:10

Martin Kiffner - Technische Universität München, DE
Dissipation as a source of entanglement and fermionized photons
(short talk)

11:10 - 11:25

Christine Muschik - Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, DE
Long-lived entanglement between distant atomic ensembles induced by dissipation
(short talk)

11:25 - 11:40

Lucas Lamata - Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, DE
Towards electron-electron entanglement in Penning traps
(short talk)

11:40 - 11:55

Eran Ginossar - Yale University, US
High fidelity latching readout in the photon blockade regime of circuit QED
(short talk)

11:55 - 12:10

Dimitris Angelakis - Technical University of Crete/CQT Singapore, GR
Strongly interacting photons as quantum simulators
(short talk)

12:10 - 12:25

Vitaly Shumeiko - Chalmers University of Technology, SE
Zeno regime in Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling
(short talk)

12:30

Lunch

Session 8: Modern Trends in Field Theory (II)

14:30 - 15:10

Roman Jackiw - MIT, US
Fractional Charge: The Physics of Zero-Energy Modes

15:10 - 15:50

So-Young Pi - Boston University, US
Quantizing Majorana Fermions in a Superconductor

15:50 - 16:20

Coffee Break

Session 9: Quantum States (II)

16:20 - 17:00

Matthew Neeley - University of California, Santa Barbara, US
Synthesizing complex photon states in superconducting qubits

17:00 - 17:30

Francesco Giazotto - Scuola Normale Superiore, IT
Magnetic field detection with the superconducting quantum interference proximity transistor

17:30 - 18:10

Frank Verstraete - University of Vienna, AT
Quantum simulation and computation using dissipative dynamics

19:00

Reception and Conference Dinner

08:00

Breakfast and Departure