Workshop on Fundamentals on Quantum Transport | (smr 3176) (07-11 August 2017)

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Description

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

Material

General Information Poster Preliminary list of participants

Workshop on Fundamentals on Quantum Transport | (smr 3176)

Go to day

Monday, 7 August 2017
- 08:30 - 17:00 DAY 1 - MONDAY
  
  Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
  - 08:30 Registration and administrative formalities 50' ( Leonardo Building - Lobby )
  - 09:20 Opening remarks 10'
  - 09:30 Mini-bands in the local spectrum of disordered Bethe lattice and in the Josephson junction array 45'
    
    Speaker: Kravtsov, Vladimir E. (ICTP)
  - 10:15 Coffee break 30'
  - 10:45 Many-body correlations of Schrödinger cats in fragmented condensates and their detection 30'
    
    Speaker: Fischer, Uwe (Seoul National University)
  - 11:15 Engineering fractional topological system by dissipative dynamics 45'
    
    Speaker: Gefen, Yuval (Weizmann Institute of Science)
  - 12:00 Lunch break 3h0'
  - 15:00 Two-dimensional bosons in disorder 45'
    
    Speaker: Shlyapnikov, Gora (University Paris-Sud)
  - 15:45 Coffee break 30'
  - 16:15 Floquet Anderson insulators 45'
    
    Speaker: Chalker, John (University of Oxford)
Tuesday, 8 August 2017
- 09:00 - 17:00 DAY 2 - TUESDAY
  - 09:00 Topological and quantum pumps of charge and spin in optical superlattices 45' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Citro, Roberta (University of Salerno)
  - 09:45 Proximity effects in single and double Majorana nanowires 45' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Loss, Daniel (University of Basel)
  - 10:30 Coffee break 30'
  - 11:00 Thermoelectric transport through SU(N) Kondo impurity 30' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Kiselev, Mikhail (ICTP)
  - 11:30 Optical manipulation of electronic topological states 45' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Hafezi, Mohammad (University of Maryland)
  - 12:15 Nature of the many-body excitations in a quantum wire: fermions and spins 30' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Tsyplyatyev, Oleksandr (Goethe University Frankfurt)
  - 12:45 Lunch break 2h15'
  - 15:00 Non-ergodicity in physical many-body systems and random regular graphs 45' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Ioffe, Lev (Paris University 6)
  - 15:45 Coffee break 30'
  - 16:15 Bad metals and bad insulators: a view from the large-N limit 45' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Berg, Erez (Weizmann Institute of Science)
- 18:00 - 20:00 POSTER SESSION
  
  Location: Leonardo Building - Terrace
  - 18:00 Poster presentations by participants - Light refreshments and drinks will accompany the poster session 2h0'
    
    Material: List of posters
Wednesday, 9 August 2017
- 09:00 - 14:00 DAY 3 - WEDNESDAY
  - 09:00 From ideal finite-temperature conductors to ideal finite temperature insulators 45' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Heidrich-Meisner, Fabian (LMU Munich)
  - 09:45 Higher-Than-Ballistic conduction of viscous electron flows 45' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Levitov, Leonid (MIT)
  - 10:30 Coffee break 30'
  - 11:00 Out-of-equilibrium noise measurements in a finite-temperature insulator 30' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Tamir, Idan (Weizmann Institute of Science)
  - 11:30 Many-body localization in quasi-periodic optical lattices 45' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Schneider, Ulrich (University of Cambridge)
  - 12:15 Interplay of dissipation and interaction: perfect spin diode and instability transitions 30' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Poletti, Dario (Singapore University for Technology and Design)
  - 12:45 Lunch break, and free afternoon 1h15'
Thursday, 10 August 2017
- 09:00 - 17:00 DAY 4 - THURSDAY
  - 09:00 Experiments on quantum heat transport by electrons and photons 45' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Pekola, Jukka (Aalto University)
  - 09:45 Optimal power-efficiency tradeoff in steady-state heat engines with interactions 45' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Benenti, Giulio (University of Como)
  - 10:30 Coffee break 30'
  - 11:00 Universality and stability of the edge states of chiral-symmetric topological semimetals and surface states of the Luttinger semimetal 30' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Kharitonov, Maxim (Würzburg University)
  - 11:30 Thermoelectricity in quantum dots and metallic islands 45' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Taddei, Fabio (Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa)
  - 12:15 Stability of a topological insulator: interactions, disorder and parity of Kramers doublets 30' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Kagalovsky, Victor (Shamoon College of Engineering)
  - 12:45 Lunch break 2h15'
  - 15:00 Intermittent nonlinear many-body dynamics: the crossover from ergodicity to non-ergodicity 45' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Flach, Sergey (Inst. for Basic Science Daejeon)
  - 15:45 Coffee break 30'
  - 16:15 Quantum transport along PN-junctions in ballistic graphene 45' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Schönenberger, Christian (University of Basel)
Friday, 11 August 2017
- 09:00 - 12:30 DAY 5 - FRIDAY
  - 09:00 Exploring many-body localization in two dimentions 45' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Gross, Christian (MPQ Garching)
  - 09:45 Bloch oscillations in the absence of a lattice and integrability 45' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Gangardt, Dimitri (University of Birmingham)
  - 10:30 Coffee break 30'
  - 11:00 Hydrodynamic electron flow and Hall viscosity 30' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Scaffidi, Thomas (University of California at Berkeley)
  - 11:30 Quantum transport in gate-defined Van der Waals nanostructures 45' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Ke, Wang (Harvard University)
  - 12:15 Closing remarks 15' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )