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Science meeting 2023

@ the Harnack House, December 3-4, 2023.
Impressions of the meeting can be found here and here and here.
Day 1:

  • 9:00-9:20 Jens Eisert: Quantum field thermal machines – and other recent developments in quantum thermodynamics
  • 9:20-9:45 Giacomo Guarnieri: Quantum signatures in close-to equilibrium stochastic thermodynamics
  • 9:45-10:30 Mark Mitchison: Thermodynamics of time-keeping
  • 10:30-11:00 Coffee break
  • 11:00-11:45 Janet Anders and Sofia Sevitz: Work extraction and storage at the nanoscale: theory for two experimental platforms
  • 11:45-12:30 Artur Widera: Quantum-engine cycles in ultracold atoms
  • 12:30-13:30 Lunch break
  • 13:30-14:50 Durga Dasari: Exploring Quantum Thermodynamics using solid-state spin defects
  • 13:50-14:15 Hyukjoon Kwon: Towards programmable spin simulator for quantum engines
  • 14:15-15:00 Jürgen Stockburger: Open-system dynamics in an extended state space
  • 15:00-15:30 Coffee break
  • 15:30-16:00 Jörg Schmiedmayer: The quantum field machine - experimental progress and theoretical questions
  • 16:00-16:15 Mohammad Mehboudi: Thermometry with continuously monitoring a quantum dot


Day 2:

  • 9:00-9:45 Ulrich Poschinger and Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler: A trapped ion quantum computer (mis)used for fundamental experiments in quantum thermodynamics
  • 9:45-10:30 Geraldine Haack: Non-Hermitian physics in quantum thermal machines
  • 10:30-10:50 Coffee break
  • 11:00-11:20 Milton Aguilar: General theory for correlated quantum machines
  • 11:20-11:45 Eric Lutz: Thermodynamics of a minimal algorithmic cooling refrigerator
  • 11:45-12:30 Marti Perarnau: Collective effects in finite-time quantum thermodynamics
  • 12:30-13:30 Lunch break
  • 13:30-14:15 Meng Xu: Dissipative engineering quantum heat engine
  • 14:15-15:00 Kilian Singer: Amplifying a zeptonewton force with a single-ion nonlinear oscillator
  • 15:00-15:30 Coffee break and concluding remarks


Past events

  • The kick-off of the Research Unit will take place October 24-25, 2019, in Berlin. We are excited about kicking off.
  • Our second meeting will take place in Obergurgl,  March 28 -April 4, 2020.
  • Press releases about work published in Nature Physics on cold atomic quantum systems probing quantum statistical properties and a "Gaussification" in time can be found here.
  • Press releases about work published in Nature Communications on cold atomic thermal machines can be found here.
  • Press releases about work published in Nature Communications about quantum simulations of quantum thermodynamics with light can be found here.