Scientific Calendar Event



Description

The goal of this Conference is to discuss "state of the art" in theory and experiment for quantum heat transport and thermoelectrics.

This Conference will focus on different aspects of heat transport and thermoelectric phenomena in the mesoscopic scale. The aim is to make the connection between the recent theoretical concepts and experimental advances in these fields, in different kinds of systems, including edge states of topological systems, quantum dots, superconducting junctions, magnetic systems, as well as hybrid systems of electrons and photons/phonons.

The topics include:
* Efficient quantum thermoelectrics, miniaturization, inelastic and nonlinear effects
* Heat transport in topological insulator materials and topological magnetic systems
* Quantum machines and energy harvesting in quantum devices
* Heat and information processing
* Thermometry in edge states of the quantum Hall effect
* Thermoelectrics of superconducting junctions
* Hybrid systems of electrons and photons/phonons
* Quantum systems under time-dependent driving
* Heat transport in systems with many-body interactions: quantum wires and quantum dots






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  • Monday, 22 August 2016
    • 08:30 - 21:00
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 08:30 Registration 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - (Lower Level 1) )
        ONLY for FACULTY and participants lodging outside ICTP Guesthouses.
        Participants lodging at ICTP Guesthouse are automatically registered upon check-in.
      • 09:30 Opening 15'
      • 09:45 Electron transfer across thermal gradients 45'
        Speaker: Abraham Nitzan (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 11:00 Fundamental aspects of steady state heat to work conversion 45'
        Speaker: Giuliano Benenti (University of Insubria, Italy)
      • 11:45 Electrical and Thermal Transport in Inhomogeneous Luttinger Liquids 45'
        Speaker: Konstantin Matveev (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Spin and charge thermopower in interacting quantum dot structures 45'
        Speaker: Anton Ramsak (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
      • 14:45 Enhanced performance of three-terminal thermoelectric devices 45'
        Speaker: Ora Entin-Wohlmann (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 16:00 Tailoring Phononic Heat Transport and Thermal Rectification in Low-dimensional Systems 25'
        Speaker: S. Mehdi Vaez Allaei (University of Tehran, Iran (ICTP Associate))
      • 16:25 Backaction and dynamical control in electromechanical and optomagnonic systems 25'
        Speaker: Silvia Viola Kusminskiy (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
      • 16:50 Free time, discussions 2h10'
      • 19:00 Welcome reception 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
  • Tuesday, 23 August 2016
    • 09:00 - 19:00
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Charge and heat transport in a hybrid single electron transistor 45'
        Speaker: Herve Courtois (Universite Grenoble alpes and CNRS, France)
      • 09:45 Heat currents and dephasing in flux qubits 45'
        Speaker: Janine Splettstoesser (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 11:00 Towards the laws of thermodynamics for non-Markovian quantum machine 45'
        Speaker: Robert Whitney (Laboratoire de Physique et Modelisation des Milieux Condenses, France)
      • 11:45 Josephson Quantum Heat Engine 45'
        Speaker: Michele Campisi (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Calorimetry for quantum circuits 45'
        Speaker: Jukka Pekola (Aalto University School of Science, Finland)
      • 14:45 Quantum dynamical heat in mesoscopic conductors 45'
        Speaker: David Sanchez (Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems, Spain)
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 16:00 Quantum thermodynamics of the driven resonant level model 15'
        Speaker: Anton Bruch (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany)
      • 16:15 Transient energy transport in interacting quantum dots - exposing a fundamental symmetry in time-dependent relaxation 15'
        Speaker: Jens Schulenborg (Chalmers University Of Technology, Sweden)
      • 16:30 Large Tunable Thermophase in Superconductor - Quantum Dot - Superconductor Josephson Junctions 15'
        Speaker: Yaakov Kleeorin (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
      • 16:45 Interference-induced thermoelectric switching and heat rectification in quantum Hall junctions 15'
        Speaker: Luca Vannucci (University of Genova, Italy)
      • 17:00 Poster session 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - (Lower Level 1) )
  • Wednesday, 24 August 2016
    • 09:00 - 14:00
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Fluctuation-dissipation relations of a tunnel junction driven by a quantum circuit 45'
        Speaker: Carles Altimiras (CEA Saclay, France)
      • 09:45 Quantum Limit of Heat Flow Across a Single Electronic Channel 45'
        Speaker: Sebastien Jezouin (LPN CNRS, France)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 11:00 Thermo-electric effects in Coulomb coupled quantum dots 45'
        Speaker: Holger Thierschmann (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
      • 11:45 Chiral heat currents in the quantum Hall regime 45'
        Speaker: Rafael Sanchez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
  • Thursday, 25 August 2016
    • 09:00 - 16:50
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Hanbury-Brown Twiss noise correlation with time controlled quasi-particles inballistic quantum conductors 45'
        Speaker: Christian Glattli (CEA Saclay, France)
      • 09:45 Interaction induced thermoelectric effects and energy dynamics in helical systems 45'
        Speaker: Maura Sassetti (University of Genova and INFN, Italy)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 11:00 Topological Insulators and Thermoelectric Effects 45'
        Speaker: Yong Xu (Tsinghua University, China)
      • 11:45 Thermal Hall effect of magnons 45'
        Speaker: Shuichi Murakami (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Heat transport in spin systems: the good, the bad, and the realistic 45'
        Speaker: Alexander Chernyshev (University of California Irvine, USA)
      • 14:45 Thermoelectricity through quantum point contacts and the 0.7 anomaly 45'
        Speaker: Yigal Meir (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 16:00 Quantum Sinai diffusion of heat in disordered Majorana nanowires 25'
        Speaker: Dmitry Bagrets (University of Cologne, Germany)
      • 16:25 Adiabatic response and quantum thermoelectrics for ac driven quantum systems 25'
        Speaker: Florencia Ludovico (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  • Friday, 26 August 2016
    • 09:00 - 14:00
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Thermal rectication in the linear regime by dynamical Coulomb blockade 45'
        Speaker: Rosa Lopez (Universidad de las Islas Baleares, Spain)
      • 09:45 Interacting QD heat engine in the linear response regime and beyond 45'
        Speaker: Fabio Taddei (NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore SNS, Italy)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 11:00 Charge transport and thermoelectric efficiency in vibrationally assisted molecular junction 25'
        Speaker: Bijay Kumar Agarwalla (University of Toronto, Canada)
      • 11:25 Heat current characteristics in nano-junctions with superconducting baths 25'
        Speaker: Juliana Restrepo (Universidad EIA, Colombia)
      • 11:50 Energy-transfer Coulomb drag in capacitively-coupled quantum-dot structures 25'
        Speaker: Kristen Kaasbjerg (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
      • 12:15 Closing Ceremony 15'
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )