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Quantum Engineering of States and Devices
from
Monday, August 11, 2014 (9:00 AM)
to
Friday, September 5, 2014 (6:00 PM)
Monday, August 11, 2014
10:00 AM
Organizational meeting
Organizational meeting
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: 132:028
10:15 AM
Many-body localization and entanglement
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Jens Bardarson
(
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany
)
Many-body localization and entanglement
Jens Bardarson
(
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany
)
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 132:028
11:00 AM
Short break
Short break
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: 132:028
11:15 AM
Measuring topological transitions in superconducting qubits
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Michael Kolodrubetz
(
Boston University, USA
)
Measuring topological transitions in superconducting qubits
Michael Kolodrubetz
(
Boston University, USA
)
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: 132:028
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
10:00 AM
Quantum quenches from excited states in the Ising chain
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Leda Bucciantini
(
Pisa University, Italy
)
Quantum quenches from excited states in the Ising chain
Leda Bucciantini
(
Pisa University, Italy
)
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 132:028
10:45 AM
Short break
Short break
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 132:028
11:00 AM
Dissipative preparation of squeezed states with ultracold atomic gases
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Gentaro Watanabe
(
APCTP, Korea
)
Dissipative preparation of squeezed states with ultracold atomic gases
Gentaro Watanabe
(
APCTP, Korea
)
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: 132:028
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
10:00 AM
Realizations of synthetic gauge fields in the dice lattice geometry
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Gunnar Möller
(
Cambridge University, UK
)
Realizations of synthetic gauge fields in the dice lattice geometry
Gunnar Möller
(
Cambridge University, UK
)
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 132:028
10:45 AM
Short break
Short break
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 132:028
11:00 AM
Features of tunneling and noise through point contact devices in chiral systems
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Joost Slingerland
(
National University of Ireland, Ireland
)
Features of tunneling and noise through point contact devices in chiral systems
Joost Slingerland
(
National University of Ireland, Ireland
)
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: 132:028
Thursday, August 14, 2014
11:00 AM
How to directly detect the exchange statistics of Abelian anyons
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Heung-Sun Sim
(
KAIST, Korea
)
How to directly detect the exchange statistics of Abelian anyons
Heung-Sun Sim
(
KAIST, Korea
)
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: 132:028
Friday, August 15, 2014
10:00 AM
Synthetic helical liquid in a quantum wire
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Mariana Malard
(
University of Brasilia, Brazil
)
Synthetic helical liquid in a quantum wire
Mariana Malard
(
University of Brasilia, Brazil
)
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 132:028
10:45 AM
Short break
Short break
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 132:028
11:00 AM
Disordered helical and quasi-helical electron liquids in one dimension
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George Japaridze
(
Ilia State University, Georgia
)
Disordered helical and quasi-helical electron liquids in one dimension
George Japaridze
(
Ilia State University, Georgia
)
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: 132:028
1:30 PM
Multi-component fractional quantum Hall states in lattice models
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Layla Hormozi
(
National University of Ireland, Ireland
)
Multi-component fractional quantum Hall states in lattice models
Layla Hormozi
(
National University of Ireland, Ireland
)
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: 132:028
Saturday, August 16, 2014
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Monday, August 18, 2014
9:00 AM
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Please see the CONFERENCE HOME PAGE for the scientific program this week!
9:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: 132:028
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Friday, August 22, 2014
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Monday, August 25, 2014
10:00 AM
Organizational meeting
Organizational meeting
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: 132:028
10:15 AM
Non-Higgs superconductivity with topological order
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Cristina Diamantini
(
University of Perugia, Italy
)
Non-Higgs superconductivity with topological order
Cristina Diamantini
(
University of Perugia, Italy
)
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 132:028
11:00 AM
Short break
Short break
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: 132:028
11:15 AM
Topological ordered surfaces of 3D TIs from coupled 1D wires
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David Mross
(
Caltech, USA
)
Topological ordered surfaces of 3D TIs from coupled 1D wires
David Mross
(
Caltech, USA
)
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: 132:028
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
10:00 AM
Six-vertex model: Exact results and open problems
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Vladimir Korepin
(
Stony Brook University, USA
)
Six-vertex model: Exact results and open problems
Vladimir Korepin
(
Stony Brook University, USA
)
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 132:028
10:45 AM
Short break
Short break
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 132:028
11:00 AM
Recent progress on the Rabi and Dicke models
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Murray Batchelor
(
Chongqing University, China
)
Recent progress on the Rabi and Dicke models
Murray Batchelor
(
Chongqing University, China
)
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: 132:028
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
11:00 AM
Bell-paired states inducing volume law for entanglement entropy in fermionic lattices
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Simone Paganelli
(
International Institute of Physics, Brazil
)
Bell-paired states inducing volume law for entanglement entropy in fermionic lattices
Simone Paganelli
(
International Institute of Physics, Brazil
)
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: 132:028
Thursday, August 28, 2014
10:00 AM
Simulation of quantum magnetism in excited bands of optical lattices
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Fernanda Pinheiro
(
Stockholm University & Nordita
)
Simulation of quantum magnetism in excited bands of optical lattices
Fernanda Pinheiro
(
Stockholm University & Nordita
)
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 132:028
10:45 AM
Short break
Short break
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 132:028
11:00 AM
Chiral d-wave superconductivity in doped graphene
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Annica Black-Schaffer
(
Uppsala University, Sweden
)
Chiral d-wave superconductivity in doped graphene
Annica Black-Schaffer
(
Uppsala University, Sweden
)
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: 132:028
1:30 PM
Mimicking interacting relativistic theories with stationary pulses of light
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Vladimir Korepin
(
Stony Brook University, USA
)
Mimicking interacting relativistic theories with stationary pulses of light
Vladimir Korepin
(
Stony Brook University, USA
)
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: 132:028
One of the most well known relativistic field theory models is the Thirring model (TM). We propose a quantum system as a simulator of the TM dynamics. Here the relativistic particles are mimicked by polarized photons in a quantum nonlinear medium. We show that the entire set of regimes of the Thirring model -- bosonic or fermionic, and massless or massive -- can be faithfully reproduced using coherent light trapping techniques. The sought after correlations' scalings can be extracted by simple probing of the coherence functions of the light using standard optical techniques.
Friday, August 29, 2014
10:00 AM
Wigner crystal phases in bilayer graphene
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Peter Silvestrov
(
TU Braunschweig
)
Wigner crystal phases in bilayer graphene
Peter Silvestrov
(
TU Braunschweig
)
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 132:028
10:45 AM
Short break
Short break
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 132:028
11:00 AM
Tonks-Girardeaux gas in star junctions
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Francesco Buccheri
(
IIP-UFRN, Brazil
)
Tonks-Girardeaux gas in star junctions
Francesco Buccheri
(
IIP-UFRN, Brazil
)
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: 132:028
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Monday, September 1, 2014
10:00 AM
Quantum dot spin cellular automata for realizing a quantum processor
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Abolfazl Bayat
(
University College London, UK
)
Quantum dot spin cellular automata for realizing a quantum processor
Abolfazl Bayat
(
University College London, UK
)
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 132:028
10:45 AM
Short break
Short break
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 132:028
11:00 AM
Entanglement effect in a two-channel Kondo system under bias
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Jong-Bae Hong
(
APCTP, Korea
)
Entanglement effect in a two-channel Kondo system under bias
Jong-Bae Hong
(
APCTP, Korea
)
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: 132:028
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
10:00 AM
Entanglement and particle identity
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Amilcar Queiroz
(
IF-UnB, Brazil & DFTUZ-UniZar, Spain
)
Entanglement and particle identity
Amilcar Queiroz
(
IF-UnB, Brazil & DFTUZ-UniZar, Spain
)
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 132:028
10:45 AM
Short break
Short break
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 132:028
11:00 AM
The entropy change in a bath coupled to a driven quantum system
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Erik Aurell
(
KTH Computational Biology
)
The entropy change in a bath coupled to a driven quantum system
Erik Aurell
(
KTH Computational Biology
)
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: 132:028
The entropy change in the environment of a classical stochastic system is an important quantity which underlies the recent extension of thermodynamics to the mesoscopic domain. It can be combined with the energy change in the system to give a fluctuating work which enters in the fluctuation relations, e.g. Jarzynski's equality, that hold also far from equilibrium. Generalization of this theory to the quantum domain are not obvious, see Campisi et al Rev Mod Phys vol 83 (2011) for a review, and Hekking & Pekola Phys Rev Lett vol 111, Horowitz & Parrondo New J. Phys vol 15 and Chetrite & Mallick J Stat Phys vol 148 for a selection of more recent contributions. Suppose that the quantum entropy change in the environment is defined as the change of von Neumann entropy in a bath, a proposal, in this context, due to Esposito, Lindenberg and van den Broeck (2010). Suppose further that the bath is comprised by a large number of harmonic oscillators, linearly coupled to the system, which is initially in thermal equilibrium. Suppose finally that the change occurs between two measurements on the system during a process when the system interacts with the bath and is also driven externally. Then the bath variables can be integrated out and the entropy change computed by the method of Feynman and Vernon. For an Ohmic bath (Caldeira-Leggett model at high enough temperature) the entropy change has the correct classical limit of minus (inverse temperature) * (work done by the bath on the system). I will describe this calculation and discuss the first corrections of the high- temperature limit.
2:00 PM
Diagnosing a strong topological insulator by quantum oscillations
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Revaz Ramazashvili
(
CNRS, Toulouse (France)
)
Diagnosing a strong topological insulator by quantum oscillations
Revaz Ramazashvili
(
CNRS, Toulouse (France)
)
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Room: 132:028
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
10:00 AM
Junctions of topological insulators and superconductors
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Oindrilla Deb
(
Indian Institute of Science, India
)
Junctions of topological insulators and superconductors
Oindrilla Deb
(
Indian Institute of Science, India
)
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 132:028
10:45 AM
Short break
Short break
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 132:028
11:00 AM
Topological rf SQUID with a frustrating π-junction for probing the Majorana bound state
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Arturo Tagliacozzo
(
Universita' di Napoli "Federico II", Italy
)
Topological rf SQUID with a frustrating π-junction for probing the Majorana bound state
Arturo Tagliacozzo
(
Universita' di Napoli "Federico II", Italy
)
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: 132:028
1:30 PM
Nonlinear Bogoliubov transformations applied to metal-insulator transitions
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Stellan Östlund
(
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
)
Nonlinear Bogoliubov transformations applied to metal-insulator transitions
Stellan Östlund
(
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
)
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: 132:028
Thursday, September 4, 2014
10:00 AM
XY model revisited
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Manuela Carvalho
(
Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil
)
XY model revisited
Manuela Carvalho
(
Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil
)
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 132:028
10:45 AM
Short break
Short break
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 132:028
11:00 AM
Vanishing spin stiffness in the spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain for any nonzero temperature
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José Carmelo
(
University of Minho, Portugal
)
Vanishing spin stiffness in the spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain for any nonzero temperature
José Carmelo
(
University of Minho, Portugal
)
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: 132:028
1:30 PM
Improving measurement precision with Weak Measurements
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Yaron Kedem
(
KTH, Sweden
)
Improving measurement precision with Weak Measurements
Yaron Kedem
(
KTH, Sweden
)
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: 132:028
The weak measurement protocol, introduced by Aharonov, Albert and Vaidman 25 years ago, is now in widespread use. They showed that weak coupling of a measurement device to a quantum system, together with a postselection, can yield an intriguing quantity which was named The Weak Value. In some contexts an observable on the system can be replaced by its Weak Value, even though it can be much larger than any of its eigenvalues and is also complex in general. The method of weak measurements have been shown to be highly useful both for the analysis of fundamental issues in quantum mechanics and for practical applications such as precision improvement. We will start with a review of the formalism and then discuss a recent development regarding the enhancement of the Signal to Noise Ratio for precision measurements in the presence of technical noise. We will see that when imaginary weak values are used, such a noise can improve the precision. Reference: Y. Kedem, Phys. Rev. A 85, 060102 (R) (2012)
Friday, September 5, 2014