Since more than thirty years the study of quantum effects on transport properties has been a precious tool to unveil fundamental properties of quantum matter.
At the same time it has been the key to the design of new nano-devices with specific functionalities. Together with old problems, still awaiting for a complete understanding, the discovery of new materials has posed new challenges.

Important advances on the experimental side have stimulated a flurry of theoretical activity of unprecedented intensity. In the condensed matter realm this is the case, for example, of heat transport and control that only recently has received an important experimental boost.

Furthermore, quantum transport has moved outside its traditional arena and it is now investigated with great success in other experimental platforms as photonic and cold atomic systems.

All these different physical systems have many properties in common but at the same time important differences.

The following topics will form the core of the talks at the Workshop:

• The Superconductor-Insulator Transition,
• Transport In Graphene,
• The Metal-Insulator Transition In Quantum Systems,
• Transport And Entanglement,
• Topological Insulators And Superconductors,
• Mesoscopic Effects,
• Thermoelectric Effects,
• Heat Transport,
• Quantum Pumping,
• Photon And Polariton Transport,
• Quantum Transport In Cold Atoms,
• Quantum Hall Systems.

List of speakers:

G. BENENTI, University of Como
E. BERG, Weizmann Institute of Science
J. CHALKER, University of Oxford
R. CITRO, University of Salerno
S. FLACH, Inst. for Basic Science Daejeon
D. GANGARDT, University of Birmingham
Y. GEFEN, Weizmann Institute of Science
C. GROSS, MPQ Garching
M. HAFEZI, University of Maryland
F. HEIDRICH-MEISNER, LMU Munich
L. IOFFE, Rutgers University
L. LEVITOV, MIT
D. LOSS, University of Basel
J. PEKOLA, Aalto University
U. SCHNEIDER, University of Cambridge
C. SCHÖNENBERGER, University of Basel
G. SHLYAPNIKOV, Univ. XI Paris Sud
A. STERN, Weizmann Institute of Science
F. TADDEI, SNS Pisa
K. WANG, Harvard University


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Related activity:  School on Fundamentals on Quantum Transport that will be organized the week before (from 31 July to 4 August 2017) .
See webpage: smr 3136
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Secretary contact: N. Ivanissevich, e-mail: smr3136@ictp.it