Scientific Program
| Tuesday, June 14 | |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Registration |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Welcome reception |
| Wednesday, June 15 | |
| 08:45 - 9:00 | Jan-Michael Rost (Director of MPI PKS Dresden) & Scientific coordinators |
| Opening | |
| Chairperson: Ingrid Rotter | |
| 09:00 - 09:35 | Achim Richter (Technische Universität Darmstadt and ECT, Trento) |
| EPs in microwave billiards: Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions talk slides (pdf) |
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| 09:45 - 10:20 | Barbara Dietz (Technische Universität Darmstadt) |
| EPs in microwave billiards: Eigenvectors and the full Hamiltonian for T-invariant and T-noninvariant systems talk slides (pdf) |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:35 | Horacio Pastawski (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba) |
| Harnessing the quantum dynamical phase transition in experimental systems | |
| 11:45 - 12:20 | Raúl Bustos Marún (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba) |
| On how to turn quantum dynamical phase transitions into plasmonic applications talk slides (pdf) |
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| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| Chairperson: Achim Richter | |
| 14:30 - 15:05 | Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann (Universität Marburg) |
| Microwave fidelity studies by varying antenna coupling. talk slides (pdf) |
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| 15:15 - 15:50 | Soo-Young Lee (Pusan National University) |
| Quasiscarred modes and the role of exceptional points in a deformed microcavity talk slides (pdf) |
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| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:05 | Stefan Rotter (Technische Universität Wien) |
| Exceptional points above lasing threshold | |
| 17:15 - 17:50 | Oleg Kirillov (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf) |
| L.E.J. Brouwer's heavy particle in a rotating vessel and ion traps: a curious dissipative system with pure imaginary eigenvalues | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Dinner |
| Thursday, June 16 | |
| Chairperson: Carl M. Bender | |
| 09:00 - 09:35 | Tsampikos Kottos (Wesleyan University) |
| Non-Hermitian optics | |
| 09:45 - 10:20 | Konstantinos Makris (Technische Universität Wien) |
| PT-symmetry in optics | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:35 | Luis Yansi Morales-Molina (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) |
| Non-adiabatic transitions in a photonic PT-symmetric lattice Talk slides (pdf) |
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| 11:45 - 12:20 | Mei Chai Zheng (Wesleyan University) |
| Heat transport in PT-symmetric harmonic chains | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| Chairperson: Henning Schomerus | |
| 14:30 - 15:05 | Sang Wook Kim (Pusan National University) |
| Non-Hermitian degeneracies in optical microcavities | |
| 15:15 - 15:50 | Roland Lefebvre (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) |
| Zero width resonances and exceptional points in molecular photodissociation talk slides (pdf) |
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| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:05 | Naomichi Hatano (University of Tokyo) |
| Resonance of open quantum systems and spontaneous breaking of time-reversal symmetry talk slides (pdf) |
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| 17:15 - 17:50 | Gonzalo Ordonez (Butler University) |
| Bound states in the continuum in a quantum-dot pair talk slides (pdf) |
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| 18:00 - 19:00 | Dinner |
| 19:00 |
Poster session I |
| (focus on odd poster numbers) | |
| Friday, June 17 | |
| Chairperson: John Briggs | |
| 09:00 - 09:35 | Philip Mannheim (University of Connecticut) |
| Observational evidence for the non-diagonalizable Hamiltonian of conformal gravity Talk slides (pdf) |
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| 09:45 - 10:20 | Jan-Michael Rost (MPI für Physik komplexer Systeme) |
| Bound by internal quantum reflection: ultracold Rydberg molecules | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:35 | Fatkhulla Abdullaev (Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan) |
| Solitons in PT-symmetric nonlinear lattices | |
| 11:45 - 12:20 | Ziyad Muslimani (Florida State University) |
| Solitons in PT optical lattices | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| Chairperson: Naomichi Hatano | |
| 14:30 - 15:05 | Yogesh Joglekar (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis) |
| Robust and fragile phases in a non-uniform, PT-symmetric chain: degrees and signatures of PT-symmetry breaking Talk slides (pdf) |
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| 15:15 - 15:50 | Sudhir Jain (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre) |
| Systems out of equilibrium: application of random cyclic matrices | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:05 | Henning Schomerus (Lancaster University) |
| Quantum optics and random matrix theory of coupled PT symmetric resonators Talk slides (pdf) |
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| 18:00 - 19:00 | Dinner |
| 19:00 |
Poster session II |
| (focus on even poster numbers) | |
| Saturday, June 18 | |
| Chairperson: Gonzalo Agustin Alvarez | |
| 09:00 - 09:35 | Vladimir Zelevinsky (Michigan State University) |
| Effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian and many-body physics | |
| 09:45 - 10:20 | Giuseppe Celardo (Tulane University) |
| Superradiance transition and transport through nanostructures Talk slides (pdf) |
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| 10:30 - 10:50 | Coffee break |
| 10:50 - 11:25 | Mahir Hussein (University of Sao Paulo) |
| Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians and fluctuations: Absorption-fluctuation theorem | |
| 11:35 - 12:10 | Carlos J. Bolech (University of Cincinnati) |
| Schwinger-Keldysh action for open quantum systems with explicit non-Hermitian dynamics | |
| 12:20 - 12:55 | Savannah Garmon (University of Toronto) |
| Analysis technique for exceptional points in open quantum systems and QPT analogy for the appearance of the resonant state talk slides (pdf) |
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| 13:05 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| Chairperson: Mahir Hussein | |
| 14:30 - 15:05 | Jean Pierre Gazeau (University Paris Diderot) |
| Coherent state & frame quantization | |
| 15:15 - 15:50 | Sebastian Fortin and Mario Castagnino (CONICET and University of Buenos Aires) |
| Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians in decoherence and equilibrium theory | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Guided tour through Dresden City |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner at the restaurant Max (Dresden) |
| Monday, June 20 | |
| Chairperson: Barbara Dietz | |
| 09:00 - 09:35 | Jan von Delft (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) |
| Mesoscopic to universal crossover of the transmission phase of multilevel quantum dots | |
| 09:45 - 10:20 | Gonzalo Agustin Alvarez (Technische Universität Dortmund) |
| Quantum dynamical phase transition and localization effects induced by decoherence | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:35 | Patricia Levstein/Horacio Pastawski (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba) |
| Line collapse and exchange narrowing in magnetic resonance: Quantum dynamical phase transitions induced by Non-Hermitian dynamics | |
| 11:45 - 12:20 | Ingrid Rotter (MPI für Physik komplexer Systeme) |
| Interplay between system and environment in quantum mechanics Talk slides (pdf) |
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| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| Chairperson: Jan-Michael Rost | |
| 14:30 - 15:05 | Jonathan Bird (University at Buffalo) |
| Coupling remote states through the continuum: Multi-state Fano resonances Talk slides (pdf) (pdf) |
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| 15:15 - 15:50 | John Briggs (Universität Freiburg) |
| Buddy, can you spare the time? | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
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PHHQPX11 Colloquium |
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| Chairperson: Günter Wunner | |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Wolfgang P. Schleich (Universität Ulm) |
| The linearity of quantum mechanics and the birth of the Schroedinger equation talk slides (pdf) |
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| 18:00 - 19:00 | Dinner |
| 19:00 |
Poster session III |
| (focus on odd poster numbers) | |
| Tuesday, June 21 | |
| Chairperson: Andreas Fring | |
| 09:00 - 09:35 | Carl Bender (Washington University, St. Louis) |
| Complex classical mechanics talk slides (pdf) |
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| 09:45 - 10:20 | Daniel Hook (Washington University, St Louis and Imperial College London) |
| Exploring classical complex-energy trajectories for pairs of isospectral Hamiltonians | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:35 | Eva-Maria Graefe (Imperial College London) |
| Semiclassical limit for non-Hermitian wave packet dynamics | |
| 11:45 - 12:20 | Dorje C. Brody (Brunel University) |
| On complexified quantum mechanics and space-time talk slides (pdf) |
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| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| Chairperson: Hugh Jones | |
| 14:30 - 15:05 | Anjana Sinha (Calcutta University) |
| Classical mechanical systems with complex potentials talk slides (pdf) |
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| 15:15 - 15:50 | Bhabani Prasad Mandal (Banaras Hindu University) |
| Spectral singularity in non-Hermitian Calogero model without confining interactions talk slides (pdf) |
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| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:05 | Pijush Kanti Ghosh (Visva-Bharati University) |
| Non-Dirac-Hermitian supersymmetric quantum systems: Deconstruction talk slides (pdf) |
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| 17:15 - 17:50 | Andreas Fring (City University London) |
| PT-symmetry breaking in complex nonlinear wave equations and their deformations
Talk slides (pdf) |
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| 18:00 - 19:00 | Dinner |
| 19:00 |
Poster session IV |
| (focus on even poster numbers) | |
| Wednesday, June 22 | |
| Chairperson: Joshua Feinberg | |
| 09:00 - 09:35 | Ali Mostafazadeh (Koc University) |
| Spectral singularities and their applications in optics | |
| 09:45 - 10:20 | Boris Samsonov (Tomsk State University) |
| Spectral singularities and SUSY transformations | |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Coffee break |
| 10:50 - 11:25 | Miloslav Znojil (Academy of Sciences CR) |
| Models with fundamental length: finite-dimensional simulations Talk slides (pdf) |
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| 11:35 - 12:10 | Frederik Scholtz (Stellenbosch University) |
| Non-Hermitian observables in non-commutative quantum mechanics | |
| 12:20 - 12:55 | Petr Siegl (Nuclear Physics Institute ASCR & FNSPE Czech Technical University & APC Université Paris 7) |
| Perfect transmission scattering as a PT-symmetric spectral problem Talk slides (pdf) |
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| 13:05 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 - 22:00 | Excursion to Königstein |
| (including coffee break, guided tour and conference dinner) | |
| Thursday, June 23 | |
| Chairperson: Miloslav Znojil | |
| 09:00 - 09:35 | Emanuela Caliceti (University of Bologna) |
| Reality of the quantum normal form generated by PT-symmetric perturbations talk slides (pdf) |
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| 09:45 - 10:20 | Sergei Kuzhel (Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza) |
| On J-self-adjoint operators with stable c-symmetry | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:35 | Paulo Assis (University of Kent) |
| Higher level Integrals of Motion from ODEs in the complex plane | |
| 11:45 - 12:20 | Monique Smith (City University London) |
| New solutions for antilinear deformations of
Coxeter groups with applications to Calogero models talk slides (pdf) |
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| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| Chairperson: Ali Mostafazadeh | |
| 14:30 - 15:05 | Hugh Jones (Imperial College London) |
| PT-symmetric sinusoidal optical lattices at the symmetry-breaking threshold Talk slides (pdf) |
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| 15:15 - 15:50 | Qing-hai Wang (National University of Singapore) |
| General PT-symmetric matrix Hamiltonians and Jordan blocks talk slides (pdf) |
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| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:05 | Clare Dunning (University of Kent) |
| Monodromy properties in third-order ODEs | |
| 17:15 - 17:50 | Joe Watkins (University of Kent) |
| Spectral zeta functions and exceptional points | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Dinner |
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Evening lecture |
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| 19:00 | Robin Kaiser (CNRS) |
| Quantum multiple scattering Talk slides (pdf) |
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| Friday, June 24 | |
| Chairperson: Günter Wunner | |
| 09:00 - 09:35 | Joachim Brand (Massey University, Auckland) |
| Resonant scattering and decay of Bose-Einstein condensates Talk slides (pdf) |
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| 09:45 - 10:20 | Holger Cartarius (Weizmann Institute of Science) |
| Exceptional points in the Bose-Einstein condensation of cold dilute gases Talk slides (pdf) |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:35 | Linda Reichl (Center for Complex Quantum Systems) |
| Quasibound states in a chaotic molecular system Talk slides (pdf) |
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| 11:45 - 12:20 | Uwe Günther (Helmholtz-Center Dresden-Rossendorf) |
| Passive PT-symmetry breaking in open 2-channel systems | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| Chairperson: Linda Reichl | |
| 14:30 - 15:05 | Joshua Feinberg (University of Haifa at Oranim) |
| Quantum field theoretic methods for studying the density of resonances in open disordered multi-dimensional systems talk slides (pdf) |
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| 15:15 - 15:50 | Marek Ploszajczak (Grand Accelerateur National d'Ions Lourds) |
| Effects of configuration interaction in nuclear open quantum systems | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:05 | Gilles Abramovici (Université Paris) |
| Exact solutions of the one-dimension Coulomb potential: A case of non-Hermiticity with a real spectrum Talk slides (pdf) |
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| 17:15 - 17:50 | Géza Lévai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) |
| Potential shapes, non-hermiticity and the spontaneous breakdown of PT symmetry | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Dinner |
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