312 Final Programme

ESF-FWF Conference in Partnership with LFUI

Quantum Engineering of States and Devices: Theory and Experiments

5-10 June 2010

Final Programme

Saturday 5 June

17:00 - 19:00
Registration at ESF Desk
19:30
Welcome Drink
20:00
Dinner
Sunday 6 June

08:30 - 09:00Welcome Address
Aigars Ekers - European Science Foundation
Pasquale Sodano - Università di Perugia
Session 1: Quantum Systems
09:00 -  09:40Peter Zoller - Institut für Theoretische Physik, AT
Quantum Hybrid Systems Involving Atomic and Nanomechanical Oscillators
09:40 - 10:20Vladimir Umansky - Weizmann Institute, IL
Engineering of Disorder in MBE grown Ultra-High Mobility Two Dimensional Electron System
10:20 - 10:35Alberto Amo - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, ENS and CNRS, FR
Superfluidity of Polaritons In Engineered Potentials in Semiconductor Microcavities
(short talk)
10:35 - 11:00Coffee 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)
12:50Lunch
Session 2: Quantum Entanglement (I)
14:30 - 15:10Sougato Bose - University College London, UK
Entanglement across a separation in spin chains: statics & dynamics
15:10 - 15:50Paolo 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 - 16:25Coffee Break
16:25 - 17:05Roberto Floreanini - INFN, IT
Using entangled identical particles for sub-shot-noise quantum metrology
17:05 - 17:45Masudul Haque - Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems, DE
Hierarchy of edge-locking effects in quantum one-dimensional lattice models
17:45 - 18:00Oliver Buerschaper - Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, DE
A hierarchy of topological tensor network states
(short talk)
18:00 - 18:40Vlatko Vedral - University of Oxford, UK
Entanglement and topological order in self-dual cluster states
19:00Dinner
20:30 - 22:00Poster Session I
Monday 7 June

Session 3: Modern Trends in Field Theory (I)
08:45 – 09:25Ian Affleck - University of British Columbia, CA
Non-equilibrium transport through double quantum dot devices: A non-Fermi liquid critical point
09:25 - 10:05Henrik Johanneson - University of Gothenburg, SE
Two-impurity Kondo model with spin-orbit interactions
10:05 - 10:20Domenico Giuliano - Universita’ della Calabria, IT
Local pairing of Cooper Pairs in Josephson junction networks
(short talk)
10:20 – 10:35Group Photo
10:35 - 11:00Coffee 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)
13:05Lunch
Session 4: Quantum States (I)
14:30 - 15:10Rainer Blatt - Universtität Innsbruck, AT
Quantum Information Science with Trapped Ca+ Ions
15:10 - 15:50Hans Briegel - Institut für Theoretische Physik, AT
Quantum effects in biological systems
15:50 - 16:05Diego Porras - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ES
Anderson localization induced by quantum disorder in trapped ions
(short talk)
16:05 - 16:20Javier 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 - 17:20Augusto Smerzi - BEC-INFM, IT
Entanglement and Distinguishability of Quantum States
17:20 - 18:00Rosario Fazio - Scuola Normale Superiore, IT
The Quantum optical Josephson interferometer
18:00 – 18:30Christian 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
19:00Dinner
20:30 - 22:00Poster Session II
Tuesday 8 June

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 - 10:05Lachezar Georgiev - Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, BG
Thermal broadening of the Coulomb blockade peaks in quantum Hall interferometers
10:05 - 10:20Beni Yoshida - MIT, US
Quantum code with translation and scale symmetries
(short talk)
10:20 - 10:40
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:20Giuseppe Mussardo - SISSA, IT
Non-Abelian Anyons and Topological Quantum Computation
11:20 - 12:00Jiannis 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 - 12:30Marie Chistina Diamantini - University of Perugia, IT
Lecture
(short talk)
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Half-day free time
19:00Dinner
20:00 - 21:00Forward Look Plenary Discussion
Wednesday 9 June

Session 7: Quantum Entanglement (II)
08:45 - 09:25Alioscia Hamma - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, UK
Topological Renyi Entropy
09:25 - 10:05Jacopo Catani - LENS, University of Firenze, IT
Towards quantum magnetism with ultracold mixtures of bosonic atoms
10:05 - 10:20Javier Molina - Technical University of Cartagena, IT
Correlations and Entanglement between Disjoint Blocks in Critical Models
(short talk)
10:20 - 10:40Coffee 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)
12:30Lunch
Session 8: Modern Trends in Field Theory (II)
14:30 - 15:10Roman Jackiw - MIT, US
Fractional Charge: The Physics of Zero-Energy Modes
15:10 - 15:50So-Young Pi - Boston University, US
Quantizing Majorana Fermions in a Superconductor
15:50 - 16:20Coffee Break
Session 9: Quantum States (II)
16:20 - 17:00Matthew Neeley - University of California, Santa Barbara, US
Synthesizing complex photon states in superconducting qubits
17:00 - 17:30Francesco 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

19:00Reception and Conference Dinner
Thursday 10 June

08:00
Breakfast and Departure