Scientific program

invited talks: 35 minutes plus 10 minutes discussion
contributed talks: 15 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion
the talks' abstracts

Sunday, 7th October 
18:30 - 19:30registration
19:00 - 21:00welcome reception
  
Monday, 8th October 
09:00 - 09:15opening: Frank Jülicher (Managing Director of the mpipks) and the scientific coordinators
09:15 - 10:00Markus Büttiker (University of Geneva)
 Electron waiting time distributions in electrical conductors
10:00 - 10:45Leonid Levitov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
 Noiseless single particle source
10:45 - 11:15coffee break
11:15 - 12:00Robert Schoelkopf (Yale University)
 Quantum noise in circuit QED
12:00 - 12:45Jukka Pekola (Aalto University)
 Fluctuation relations in driven electron tunneling
12:45 - 14:30lunch break
14:30 - 15:15Klaus Mølmer (University of Aarhus)
 Quantum state control by quantum measurements
15:15 - 16:00Jan van Ruitenbeek (Leiden University)
 Inelastic noise in nanowires: A two-electron effect
16:00 - 16:30coffee break
16:30 - 17:30qnm12 colloquium
 Steven Girvin (Yale University)
 Quantum measurements and back-action (spooky and otherwise)
19:00 - 20:00supper
20:00 - 22:00poster session I
  
Tuesday, 9th October 
09:00 - 09:45Christian Schönenberger (University of Basel)
 Near unity Cooper-pair splitting with quantum dots
09:45 - 10:30Gerd Schön (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
 Fluctuation theorem and single-electron tunneling
10:30 - 11:00group photo (to be published on the workshop's web page) & coffee break
11:00 - 11:45Leonardo DiCarlo (Delft University of Technology)
 Real-time observation of quasiparticle tunneling in a transmon qubit using feedback
11:45 - 12:05Richard Deblock (CNRS Orsay)
 Quantum noise measurement of a carbon nanotube quantum dot in the Kondo regime
12:05 - 12:25Andreas Nunnenkamp (University of Basel)
 Synthetic gauge fields and homodyne transmission in Jaynes-Cummings lattices
12:25 - 14:30lunch break
14:30 - 15:15Andreas Wallraff (ETH Zürich)
 Quantum optics with superconducting circuits: Exploring propagating microwave photons
15:15 - 16:00Aashish Clerk (McGill University)
 Quantum measurement with non-linear cavities: Beyond weak coupling
16:00 - 16:30coffee break
16:30 - 17:15Irfan Siddiqi (University of California, Berkeley)
 Quantum control of a superconducting qubit
17:15 - 18:00D. Christian Glattli (CEA Saclay)
 Minimal excitation charged states based on Lorentzian voltage pulses
18:00 - 19:00time for discussions
19:00 - 20:00supper
20:00 - 22:00poster session II
  
Wednesday, 10th October 
09:00 - 09:45Klaus Ensslin (ETH Zürich)
 Dipole-coupling of a double quantum dot to a microwave resonator
09:45 - 10:30Moty Heiblum (Weizmann Institute of Science)
 Shot noise measurements in mesoscopic systems
10:30 - 11:00 coffee break
11:00 - 11:45Felix von Oppen (Freie Universität Berlin)
 Current-induced forces in nanoelectromechanical systems
11:45 - 12:30Bertrand Reulet (Université de Sherbrooke)
 Noise minimization, quantum oscillations, and the fourth cumulant of photo-assisted noise
12:30 - 14:30lunch break
14:30 - 15:15Tobias Brandes (Technische Universität Berlin)
 Feedback control and fluctuations in quantum transport
15:15 - 15:35Christoph Bruder (University of Basel)
 Interferometric and noise signatures of Majorana fermions
15:35 - 16:00coffee break
16:00 - 19:00time for discussions
16:00meeting at the institute's reception for the guided tour through the exhibition In the Network of Modernism
19:00 - 20:00supper
  
Thursday, 11th October 
09:00 - 09:45Hugues Pothier (CEA Saclay)
 Photonic spectroscopy of Andreev bound states
09:45 - 10:30Thierry Martin (Aix Marseille Université)
 Current correlations in the interacting Cooper-pair beam-splitter
10:30 - 11:00coffee break
11:00 - 11:45Jürgen König (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
 Mesoscopic Stoner instability in metallic nanoparticles revealed by shot noise
11:45 - 12:05Carles Altimiras (CEA Saclay)
 Dynamical Coulomb blockade of the high frequency noise of a tunnel junction
12:05 - 12:25Fabian Hassler (RWTH Aachen)
 Statistics of radiation at Josephson parametric resonance
12:25 - 15:00lunch break
15:00 - 15:20Michael Hatridge (Yale University)
 Determining the quantum back-action of an individual variable-strength measurement
15:20 - 15:40Adam Bednorz (University of Warsaw)
 Violation of time reversal symmetry in weak measurements
15:40 - 16:30coffee break
16:30 - 17:15Yuval Gefen (Weizmann Institute of Science)
 Weak measurement in electronic systems
17:15 - 18:00Peter Hänggi (Universität Augsburg)
 The role of measurements for quantum fluctuation relations
19:00 - leaving the institute by bus for the conference dinner at the Schlosshotel Pillnitz
  
Friday, 12th October 
09:00 - 09:45Tobias J. Kippenberg (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
 Quantum coherent coupling of a mechanical oscillator to a cavity mode
09:45 - 10:30Florian Marquardt (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
 Nonequilibrium quantum dynamics in circuit cavity QED
10:30 - 11:00coffee break
11:00 - 11:45Takis Kontos (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
 Quantum dot circuits in microwave cavities
11:45 - 12:15closing remarks
12:15 - 14:30lunch break
  

 

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