Scientific program

Abstracts of the talks

 Sunday, 28th June
18:30 - 19:30Registration
19:00 - 21:00Welcome reception
  
 Monday, 29th June
08:45 - 09:00Opening: Roderich Moessner (Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems) & Scientific coordinators
09:00 - 09:30Christian Flindt (Aalto University)
 Bistable photon emission in hybrid circuit-QED
09:30 - 10:00Jason R. Petta (Princeton University)
 Maser action in cavity-coupled semiconductor double quantum dots
10:00 - 10:30Takis Kontos (CNRS/ENS)
 Coherent coupling of a single spin to microwave cavity photons
10:30 - 11:00coffee break
11:00 - 11:20Lesvia Debora Contreras-Pulido (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
 Current correlations and entanglement in a hybrid circuit-QED system
11:20 - 11:50Peter Samuelsson (Lund University)
  Nonlocal transport properties of nanoscale conductor-microwave cavity systems
11:50 - 12:10Tineke van den Berg (Lund University)
 Pump-probe scheme for electron-photon dynamics in hybrid conductor-cavity systems
12:10 - 14:00lunch break
14:00 - 14:30Milena Grifoni (Universität Regensburg)
 Charge transfer in carbon nanotubes: From the Fabry-Perot to the Kondo regime
14:30 - 15:00Engin Hakan Tureci (Princeton University)
 Photon-mediated interactions: A scalable tool to create and sustain entangled many-body states
15:00 - 15:30Michael Hartmann (Heriot Watt University)
 The toric code Hamiltonian in superconducting circuits
15:30 - 16:00Sebastian Schmidt (ETH Zürich)
 Towards quantum simulation with circuit QED lattices
16:00 - 16:30coffee break
16:30 - 17:30ctcqed15 colloquium
 Michel Devoret (Yale University)
 Implementing cat-codes in Josephson quantum circuits
18:00 - 19:30supper
19:30 - 21:30poster session I
  
 Tuesday, 30th June
09:00 - 09:30Helene Bouchiat (CNRS Orsay)
 Dynamics of Andreev states in a mesoscopic NS ring coupled to a superconducting resonator
09:30 - 10:00Mikael Fogelström (Chalmers University of Technology)
 Josephson effect in nanowires and Andreev level spectroscopy
10:00 - 10:20Rémi Avriller (Université de Bordeaux et CNRS)
 Andreev bound-state dynamics in quantum-dot Josephson junctions: A washing out of the 0-π transition
10:20 - 11:00coffee break
11:00 - 11:30Marcelo Goffman (CEA Saclay)
 Coherent manipulation of Andreev bound states in one-atom superconducting contacts
11:30 - 11:50Laure Bruhat (École Normale Supérieure Paris)
 Cooper pair splitter embedded in microwave cavity
11:50 - 12:20Eugene S. Polzik (University of Copenhagen)
 Beyond the Heisenberg uncertainty
12:20 - 14:00lunch break
14:00 - 14:30Audrey Cottet (École Normale Supérieure Paris)
 Mesoscopic quantum electrodynamics
14:30 - 15:00Pascal Simon (Université Paris-Sud)
 Cavity QED with mesoscopic topological superconductors
15:00 - 15:30Mark I. Dykman (Michigan State University)
 Critical fluctuations and switching near excitation threshold of a parametric oscillator
15:30 - 16:00William D. Oliver (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
 Quasiparticle and thermal photon noise in a capacitively shunted flux qubit
16:00 - 16:30coffee break
16:30leaving for the guided tour through Dresden's old city centre including an organ recital
20:00start of the conference dinner at the Kanonenhof of the Brühlscher Garten
  
 Wednesday, 1st July
09:00 - 09:30Alex Rimberg (Dartmouth College)
 The cavity-embedded Cooper-pair transistor: A strongly coupled light-matter system
09:30 - 10:00Andrew Armour (University of Nottingham)
 Quantum non-linear dynamics of photons and Cooper-pairs in a Josephson junction-cavity system
10:00 - 10:20Mircea Trif (Université Paris-Sud)
 Photon cross-correlations emitted by a Josephson junction in two microwave cavities
10:20 - 11:00coffee break
11:00 - 11:30Fabien Portier (CEA Saclay)
 Generation of photon pairs by a dc biased Josephson junction
11:30 - 12:00Joachim Ankerhold (Universität Ulm)
 Josephson photonics - light-charge interaction in the quantum limit
12:00 - 12:20Christophe Mora (École Normale Supérieure Paris)
 Dissipative squeezing of a resonator coupled to a quantum conductor
12:20 - 14:00lunch break
14:00 - 14:30Gary A. Steele (Delft University of Technology)
  Optomechanical coupling of graphene membranes to high-Q superconducting cavities
14:30 - 15:00Mika A. Sillanpää (Aalto University)
  Optomechanics at microwave frequencies: Mechanical resonators coupled to microwave cavities and superconducting qubits
15:00 - 15:30Andreas K. Hüttel (Universität Regensburg)
 Carbon nanotube nano-electromechanical resonators at millikelvin temperatures
15:30 - 16:00Vittorio Peano (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
 Tailoring the flow of light and sound in an optomechanical array
16:00 - 16:30coffee break
16:30 - 17:00Eyal Buks (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
 Back-reaction effects in optomechanical cavities
17:00 - 17:20Gianluca Rastelli (Universität Konstanz)
 Control of vibrational states in carbon-resonators using spin-dependent transport
17:20 - 17:40Kristen Kaasbjerg (Weizmann Institute of Science)
  Light emission from quantum noise in plasmonic contacts: Interaction effects
18:00 - 20:00barbeque
  
 Thursday, 2nd July
09:00 - 09:30Tobias Brandes (Technische Universität Berlin)
 Collective feedback control of particle transfer
09:30 - 10:00Oleg Astafiev (Royal Holloway, University of London)
 Correlated emission lasing on superconducting quantum system
10:00 - 10:30Michael Marthaler (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
 Lasing with a noisy atom
10:30 - 11:00coffee break
11:00 - 11:30Richard Berndt (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
 Current noise of STM-made contacts
11:30 - 12:00Cecilia Holmqvist (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
 Overbias light emission due to higher-order quantum noise in a tunnel junction
12:00 - 12:20Clemens Winkelmann (Université de Grenoble)
 Dynamics of quantum dot - superconductor hybrids
12:20 - 14:00lunch break
14:00 - 14:30Aashish A. Clerk (McGill University)
 Non-classical microwave radiation and mesoscopic transport
14:30 - 15:00Max Hofheinz (CEA Grenoble)
 Bunching and antibunching of photons emitted by inelastic Cooper-pair tunneling
15:00 - 15:30Juha Leppäkangas (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
 Anti-bunched photons from inelastic Cooper-pair tunnelling
15:30 - 16:00Yuli V. Nazarov (Delft University of Technology)
 Statistics of photons emitted by a Josephson junction
16:00 - 16:30coffee break
16:30 - 17:00Göran Johansson (Chalmers University of Technology)
 Photon scattering and charge transport
17:00 - 17:30Andreas Wallraff (ETH Zürich)
 Exploring hybrid quantum systems with circuit quantum electrodynamics: Semiconductor quantum dots
17:30 - 17:50Tomáš Novotný (Charles University of Prague)
 Theory of single-Josephson-junction-based microwave amplifier
18:00 - 19:30supper
19:30 - 21:30poster session II
  
 Friday, 3rd July
09:00 - 09:30Per Delsing (Chalmers University of Technology)
  Interaction between surface acoustic waves and a superconducting qubit
09:30 - 10:00Peter J. Leek (University of Oxford)
 Surface acoustic wave resonators for quantum information
10:00 - 10:20Matteo Biondi (ETH Zürich)
 Incompressible polaritons in a flat band
10:20 - 11:00coffee break
11:00 - 11:30Pertti Hakonen (Aalto University)
 Dynamical Casimir photons with interference effects: Microwave cavities with multifrequency correlations
11:30 - 12:00Frank Deppe (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
  Spin-boson model with an engineered reservoir in circuit QED
12:00 - 12:30concluding remarks
12:30 - 14:00lunch & departure
18:00 - 01:00Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
  

 

 

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