CDSAGENDA V.5 Workshop on Quantum Phenomena and Information: From Atomic to Mesoscopic Systems

Workshop on Quantum Phenomena and Information: From Atomic to Mesoscopic Systems

Start Time:

5 May 2008 at 08:30

Ends On:

16 May 2008

Location:

Trieste - Italy

Venue:

LB (Main Lecture Hall)

Organizer(s):

Directors: I. Cirac, K. Le Hur, D. Loss, P. Zoller. Local Organizer: M. Kiselev

Material:

no notes available

Monday, 5 May 2008

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

08:30
09:30

REGISTRATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES

01h00'

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby

09:30
09:40

Welcome and Opening Session

10'

09:40
10:30

Entanglement, Quantum State Manipulation and Quantum Metrology with Trapped Ca+ ions

50'

R. Blatt
(Innsbruck)

10:30
11:20

Quantum Phenomena with atoms and quantum dots

50'

I. Cirac
(Garching)

11:20
11:45

Coffee break

25'

11:45
12:30

Contributed talks

45'

Charge fractionalization at superconducting junction of multiple Luttinger Liquid wires 15' Presentation	S. Das - Bangalore
One-Dimensional Bose Gases with N-Body Interactions 15' Presentation	A. Trombettoni - SISSA, Italy
Entanglement dynamics in systems of qubits with Markov environments 15' Presentation	N. Buric - Belgrade

12:45
14:30

Lunch

01h45'

14:30
15:30

REGISTRATION CONT'D - Afterwards, late Registrations at the Secretariat (room 231)

01h00'

15:30
16:20

Spins in a Bosonic Environment: From Noisy Qubits to Quantum Computation

50'

K. Le Hur
(Yale)

16:30
17:00

Contributed talks

30'

Counting Statistics of Non-Markovian Quantum Stochastic Processes 15' Presentation	A. Braggio - Genova
Entanglement and density-functional theory: the case of Hooke's atom 15' Presentation	J. Coe - York

Tuesday, 6 May 2008

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

09:30
10:20

Ultra-cold polar molecules

50'

H.P. Buchler
(Stuttgart)

10:30
11:20

Vibrationally-dependent interactions of cold polar molecules

50'

S. Kotochigova
(Temple, Philadelphia)

11:30
11:50

Coffee break

20'

11:50
12:35

Contributed talks

45'

Perfect mirror transport in arbitrary dimension 15'	G. Paz - Macquarie
Using quantized light in ultracold atom problems 15'	I. Mekhov - Innsbruck
2D Multipartite valence bond states in quantum anti-ferromagnets 15'	E. Rico - Wien

12:45
15:30

Lunch

02h45'

15:30
16:20

A Mott insulating state of fermions in an optical lattice

50'

T. Esslinger
(ETH Zurich)

16:30
17:20

Quantum phase transitions and the computational power of dissipative quantum systems

50'

F. Verstraete
(Wien)

19:30
21:00

Reception

01h30'

Wednesday, 7 May 2008

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

09:30
10:20

A new route to Supersolid Phases via Spinor Condensates

50'

E. Demler
(Harvard)

10:30
11:20

Decoherence beyond the Spin-Boson model

50'

B. Altshuler
(Columbia)

11:20
11:40

Coffee break

20'

11:50
12:40

Quantum Noise as an Entanglement Meter

50'

L. Levitov
(MIT)

12:40
14:00

Lunch

01h20'

14:00
16:30

Poster Session

02h30'

16:30
17:20

Quantum loop gases and topological order

50'

M. Troyer
(ETH Zurich)

Thursday, 8 May 2008

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

09:30
10:20

A new route for probing electron organization in low-dimensional semiconductor structures

50'

D. Goldhaber-Gordon
(Stanford)

10:30
11:20

Quantum coherence and entanglement with ultracold atoms in optical lattices

50'

I. Bloch
(Mainz)

11:20
11:40

Coffee break

20'

11:50
12:40

Strong correlations and inhomogeneity in ultracold atoms

50'

W. Hofstetter
(Frankfurt)

12:45
15:30

Lunch

02h45'

15:30
16:20

Atomic Bose gases in reduced dimensionality

50'

J. Dalibard
(ENS Paris)

Friday, 9 May 2008

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

10:30
11:20

Measuring the momentum of a nanomechanical oscillator through the use of two tunnel junctions

50'

C. Bruder
(Basel)

11:30
11:50

Coffee break

20'

11:50
12:20

Contributed talks

30'

Quantum Combinatorics 15'	R. Diaz - U. Experimental Politecnica de las FFAA, Caracas
Density Matrix Renormalization Group study of rapidly-rotating two-dimensional bosons 15'	D. Kovrizhin - Oxford

Monday, 12 May 2008

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

08:30
09:30

REGISTRATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES Afterwards, late Registrations at the Secretariat (room 231)

01h00'

09:30
10:20

Hyperfine Interaction in Quantum Dots

50'

D. Loss
(Basel)

10:30
11:20

The dynamic nuclear environment in GaAs spin qubits

50'

C. Marcus
(Harvard)

11:30
11:50

Coffee break

20'

11:50
12:40

Single Electron Charge and Spin Physics in GaAs Quantum Dots

50'

D. Zumbuhl
(Basel)

12:50
14:30

Lunch

01h40'

14:30
15:20

50'

P. Zoller
(Innsbruck)

15:30
16:20

Two particle Aharonov-Bohm effect and finite temperature entanglement

50'

M. Buttiker
(Geneva)

16:30
16:50

Coffee break

20'

16:50
17:40

Dispersive optomechanics: a new approach to radiation pressure

50'

J. Harris
(Yale)

17:40
18:25

Kondo effect in Carbon Nanotubes

45'

R. Lopez
(Balearic Islands)

Tuesday, 13 May 2008

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

09:30
10:20

Coherence and control of a single electron spin in a quantum dot

50'

L. Vandersypen
(Delft)

10:30
11:20

Conditional interaction between two quantum dots

50'

A. Imamoglu
(ETH Zurich)

11:30
11:50

Coffee break

20'

11:50
12:40

Single microwave photon detection with quantum dots

50'

Presentation

K. Ensslin
(ETH Zurich)

12:40
14:30

Lunch

01h50'

14:30
15:20

Spin qubits in diamond: physics and applications

50'

M. Lukin
(Harvard)

15:30
16:20

Tunable Single Quantum Dot Nanocavities for solid-state QED

50'

J. Finley
(Munich)

16:30
16:50

Coffee break

20'

16:50
17:40

Adiabatic quenches in open quantum critical systems: Coherent vs incoherent defect production

50'

Presentation

A. Silva
(ICTP, Trieste)

19:30
21:00

Reception

01h30'

Wednesday, 14 May 2008

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

09:30
10:20

Reconstructing the Wigner function of photonic Schrödinger cats in a cavity: a movie of decoherence

50'

S. Haroche
(ENS Paris)

10:30
11:20

Quantum optics with superconducting circuits

50'

D. Schuster
(Yale)

11:30
11:50

Coffee Break

20'

11:50
12:40

Cavity QED with one atom and two photons

50'

G. Rempe
(Munich)

12:50
14:00

Lunch

01h10'

14:00
14:45

Contributed talks

45'

Quantum Entropy for the 1-D XY model 15' Presentation	F. Franchini - ICTP, Trieste
Nested entangled states for distributed quantum channels 15'	C. Di Franco - Queen's, Belfast
On the correspondence principle: implications from a study of the chaotic dynamics of a macroscopic quantum device 15' Presentation	M. Everitt - Loughborough

14:45
15:00

Break

15'

15:00
15:45

Contributed talks

45'

Transport and Charge Sensing of Spin Blockaded 12C and 13C Nanotube Double Quantum Dots 15'	H. Churchill - Harvard
Using rings to increase the current in quantum electronics 15'	M.J. Sanchez - Bariloche
Non-Equilibrium Transport in Quantum Impurity Models: A Diagrammatic Monte Carlo Approach 15'	M. Schiro' - SISSA, Trieste

16:10
16:30

Coffee break

20'

16:30
17:20

Many body entanglement of massive and massless particles

50'

Presentation

V. Vedral
(Leeds)

Thursday, 15 May 2008

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

09:30
10:20

Ultracold Polar Molecules: Production and Applications

50'

D. DeMille
(Yale)

10:30
11:20

Dissipation in driven circuit QED systems

50'

G. Schon
(Karlsruhe)

11:30
11:50

Coffee break

20'

11:50
12:40

Entanglement engineering in optical superlattices

50'

D. Jaksch
(Oxford)

12:50
14:15

Lunch

01h25'

14:15
15:15

Contributed talks

01h00'

Anisotropic conductivity of disordered 2DEGs due to spin-orbit interactions 15'	O. Shalaev - Basel
Non-equilibrium transport at a quantum phase transition 15'	C.H. Chung - National Chaio-Tung University
Sudden birth of entanglement in Josephson-charge qubits 15'	M. Abdel-Aty - Sohag University
Quantum Phase Duagram of Superconducting Quantum Dots 15'	S. Sarkar - Poorna Prajna Institute of Scientific Research

15:15
15:30

Coffee break

15'

15:30
16:20

The cavity grid: Quantum information processing in superconducting circuit QED

50'

F. Marquardt
(Munich)

16:30
17:20

Frequency-dependent counting statistics in interacting nanoscale conductors

50'

R. Aguado
(CSIC, Madrid)

Friday, 16 May 2008

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

09:30
10:20

Spin qubits in graphene

50'

G. Burkard
(Konstanz)

10:30
11:20

Quantum phase transitions in arrays of coupled QED-cavities

50'

R. Fazio
(SISSA, Trieste)

11:30
12:00

Coffee break

30'

12:00
12:45

Closing session

45'