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School and Workshop on Quantum Entanglement, Decoherence, Information, and Geometrical Phases in Complex Systems | (smr 1587)
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  • Monday, 1 November 2004
    • 08:30 - 10:00 Registration
      Location: Main Building Lobby
      • 08:30 Registration 1h30'
    • 10:00 - 10:15 Opening Address
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Opening Address 15'
    • 10:15 - 11:25 Opening Lecture
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:15 Opening Lecture 1h10'
        Speaker: Sir M.V. Berry (University of Bristol, UK)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:25 - 11:40 Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:25 Break 15'
    • 11:40 - 12:50 Entropy / information bounds and gravitation
      • 11:40 Entropy / information bounds and gravitation 1h10'
        Speaker: J. D. Bekenstein (The Hebrew Univ.of Jerusalem, Israel)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:50 - 14:30 Lunch
      • 12:50 Lunch 1h40'
    • 14:30 - 15:40 Role of entropy in dynamical systems
      • 14:30 Role of entropy in dynamical systems 1h10'
        Speaker: S. Stenholm (Royal Inst. of Tech.,Stockholm, Sweden)
    • 15:40 - 15:50 Break
      • 15:40 Break 10'
    • 15:50 - 17:00 Quantum information and entanglement
      • 15:50 Quantum information and entanglement 1h10'
        Speaker: S. Braunstein (University of York, UK)
    • 17:00 - 17:10 Break
      • 17:00 Break 10'
    • 17:10 - 17:30 Discussion
      • 17:10 Discussion 20'
  • Tuesday, 2 November 2004
    • 09:00 - 10:10 What is really there in the quantum domain
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 What is really there in the quantum domain 1h10'
        Speaker: Y. Aharonov (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
    • 10:10 - 11:20 The quantum eraser
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:10 The quantum eraser 1h10'
        Speaker: M. O. Scully (Texas A&M University, USA)
    • 11:20 - 11:35 Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:20 Break 15'
    • 11:35 - 12:45 Multiparticle entanglement
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:35 Multiparticle entanglement 1h10'
        Speaker: G. S. Agarwal (Oklahoma State Univ., USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:45 - 14:30 Lunch
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:45 Lunch 1h45'
    • 14:30 - 15:40 Controlled dephasing in mesoscopic systems
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 Controlled dephasing in mesoscopic systems 1h10'
        Speaker: M. Heiblum (Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
    • 15:40 - 16:00 Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:40 Break 20'
    • 16:00 - 17:10 Multiparticle entangled states
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:00 Multiparticle entangled states 1h10'
        Speaker: I. J. Cirac (Max-Planck-Inst. für Quantenoptik, München, Germany)
    • 17:20 - 18:00 Directors and speakers, discussion
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 17:20 Directors and speakers, discussion 40'
    • 18:30 - 18:30 GET-TOGETHER DRINK
      Location: Main Building Cafeteria
      • 18:30 GET-TOGETHER DRINK
  • Wednesday, 3 November 2004
    • 09:00 - 10:10 Quantum Darwinism
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Quantum Darwinism 1h10'
        Speaker: W. H. Zurek (Los Alamos Nat. Laboratory, USA)
    • 10:10 - 11:20 Quantum-classical correspondence in perturbed chaotic systems
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:10 Quantum-classical correspondence in perturbed chaotic systems 1h10'
        Speaker: G. Casati (Univ.degli Studi dell'Insubria, Como, Italy)
    • 11:20 - 11:35 Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:20 Break 15'
    • 11:35 - 12:45 Unified approach to dynamical control of decoherence
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:35 Unified approach to dynamical control of decoherence 1h10'
        Speaker: A. G. Kofman (Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:45 - 14:30 Lunch
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:45 Lunch 1h45'
    • 14:30 - 15:40 Control over dynamics and decoherence of complex systems
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 Control over dynamics and decoherence of complex systems 1h10'
        Speaker: G. Harel (University of Bradford, UK)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:40 - 16:00 Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:40 Break 20'
    • 16:00 - 17:10 Josephson qubit: topological protection from decoherence
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:00 Josephson qubit: topological protection from decoherence 1h10'
        Speaker: V. Geshkenbein (ETH, Zürich, Switzerland)
    • 17:20 - 18:00 Directors and speakers, discussion
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 17:20 Directors and speakers, discussion 40'
  • Thursday, 4 November 2004
    • 09:00 - 10:10 Wave-particle duality and quantum erasure in atom interferometry
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Wave-particle duality and quantum erasure in atom interferometry 1h10'
        Speaker: G. Rempe (Max-Planck-Inst.für Quantenoptik, München, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:10 - 11:20 Coherent excitation control
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:10 Coherent excitation control 1h10'
        Speaker: K. Bergmann (Univ. Kaiserslautern, Germany)
    • 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:00 Lunch 2h0'
    • 14:00 - 15:10 Entanglement and teleportation in the Fermi sea
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Entanglement and teleportation in the Fermi sea 1h10'
        Speaker: C. W. J. Beenakker (Univ. of Leiden, Netherlands)
    • 15:10 - 16:20 Shot noise and orbital entanglement in mesoscopics
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:10 Shot noise and orbital entanglement in mesoscopics 1h10'
        Speaker: M. Buttiker (Univ. de Genéve, Switzerland)
    • 16:20 - 16:35 Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:20 Break 15'
    • 16:35 - 17:45 Stochastic Schroedinger equations
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:35 Stochastic Schroedinger equations 1h10'
        Speaker: H. J. Carmichael (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 17:50 - 18:30 Directors and speakers, discussion
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 17:50 Directors and speakers, discussion 40'
  • Friday, 5 November 2004
    • 09:30 - 10:40 Quantum defects and topological quantum numbers
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 Quantum defects and topological quantum numbers 1h10'
        Speaker: D. Thouless (University of Washington, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:40 - 11:00 Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:40 Break 20'
    • 11:00 - 12:10 Berry phases, geometric dephasing and noise
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Berry phases, geometric dephasing and noise 1h10'
        Speaker: Y. Gefen (Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
    • 12:10 - 14:30 Lunch
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:10 Lunch 2h20'
    • 14:30 - 15:40 Josephson qubits: manipulations and decoherence
      • 14:30 Josephson qubits: manipulations and decoherence 1h10'
        Speaker: G. Schön (Universität Karlsruhe, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:40 - 16:00 Break
      • 15:40 Break 20'
    • 16:00 - 17:10 Laser-induced dynamics and decoherence in rare earth doped crystals
      • 16:00 Laser-induced dynamics and decoherence in rare earth doped crystals 1h10'
        Speaker: T. T. Basiev (GPI, Moscow, Russia)
    • 17:20 - 18:00 Directors and speakers, discussion
      • 17:20 Directors and speakers, discussion 40'
    • 19:00 - 19:00 GET-TOGETHER DRINK
      Location: Main Building Cafeteria
      • 19:00 GET-TOGETHER DRINK
  • Monday, 8 November 2004
    • 08:45 - 09:00 Directors' remarks
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 08:45 Directors' remarks 15'
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Information as a common principle of entanglement and decoherence
      • 09:00 Information as a common principle of entanglement and decoherence 1h0'
        Speaker: A. Zeilinger (University of Vienna, Austria)
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Which-path information, decoherence, dephasing in macromolecular interferometry
      • 10:00 Which-path information, decoherence, dephasing in macromolecular interferometry 1h0'
        Speaker: M. Arndt (University of Vienna, Austria)
    • 11:00 - 11:15 Break
      • 11:00 Break 15'
    • 11:15 - 12:15 Position and momentum entanglement
      • 11:15 Position and momentum entanglement 1h0'
        Speaker: T. Opatrny (Palacky University, Czech Republic)
    • 12:15 - 14:00 Lunch
      • 12:15 Lunch 1h45'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Spin coherence and computation in semiconductor nanostructures
      • 14:00 Spin coherence and computation in semiconductor nanostructures 1h0'
        Speaker: S. Das Sarma (University of Maryland, USA)
    • 15:00 - 16:00 Entanglement and decoherence in high Tc nanostructures
      • 15:00 Entanglement and decoherence in high Tc nanostructures 1h0'
        Speaker: F. Tafuri (Univ. di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
    • 16:00 - 16:15 Break
      • 16:00 Break 15'
    • 16:15 - 17:15 Decoherence of Spin Qubits in Quantum Dots
      • 16:15 Decoherence of Spin Qubits in Quantum Dots 1h0'
        Speaker: D. Loss (University of Basel, Switzerland)
    • 17:25 - 18:00 Directors and speakers, discussion
      • 17:25 Directors and speakers, discussion 35'
  • Tuesday, 9 November 2004
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Entanglement & NMR computation
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Entanglement & NMR computation 1h0'
        Speaker: J. Jones (University of Oxford, UK)
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Control of decoherence - different strategies
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Control of decoherence - different strategies 1h0'
        Speaker: S. Pascazio (Univ. degli Studi di Bari, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:15 Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Break 15'
    • 11:15 - 12:15 Dynamical control of decoherence
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:15 Dynamical control of decoherence 1h0'
        Speaker: L. Viola (Darmouth College, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:15 - 14:00 Lunch
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:15 Lunch 1h45'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Decoherence and control in Josephson nanocircuits
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Decoherence and control in Josephson nanocircuits 1h0'
        Speaker: G. Falci (Università di Catania, Italy)
    • 15:00 - 16:00 Decoherence control by collective mapping
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:00 Decoherence control by collective mapping 1h0'
        Speaker: M. Fleischhauer (Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:00 - 16:15 Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:00 Break 15'
    • 16:15 - 17:15 Spin control and relaxation in mesoscopic transport
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:15 Spin control and relaxation in mesoscopic transport 1h0'
        Speaker: K. Richter (Universität Regensburg, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 17:25 - 18:00 Directors and speakers, discussion
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 17:25 Directors and speakers, discussion 35'
  • Wednesday, 10 November 2004
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Multiparticle entanglement via boundary conditions
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Multiparticle entanglement via boundary conditions 1h0'
        Speaker: W. P. Schleich (Universität Ulm, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Many-particle adiabatic entanglement
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Many-particle adiabatic entanglement 1h0'
        Speaker: R. Unanyan (Armenian Acad. of Sci., Ashtarak, Armenia)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:15 Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Break 15'
    • 11:15 - 12:15 Propagation, collisions and entanglement of electron wavepackets in quantum dot arrays
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:15 Propagation, collisions and entanglement of electron wavepackets in quantum dot arrays 1h0'
        Speaker: D. Petrosyan (FORTH/IESL, Crete, Greece)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:15 - 14:00 Lunch
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:15 Lunch 1h45'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Collisions and entanglement in cold condensed matter
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Collisions and entanglement in cold condensed matter 1h0'
        Speaker: I.E. Mazets (A.F. IoffePhys.-Tech.Inst., St. Petersburg, Russia)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:00 - 16:00 Attosecond entanglement and decoherence
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:00 Attosecond entanglement and decoherence 1h0'
        Speaker: A. C. Dreismann (TU Berlin, Germany)
    • 16:00 - 16:15 Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:00 Break 15'
    • 16:15 - 17:15 Quantum coherence of protons in condensed matter
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:15 Quantum coherence of protons in condensed matter 1h0'
        Speaker: E. B. Karlsson (Uppsala University, Sweden)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 17:25 - 18:00 Directors and speakers, discussion
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 17:25 Directors and speakers, discussion 35'
  • Thursday, 11 November 2004
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Quantum dynamics of geometric phases in molecular physic
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Quantum dynamics of geometric phases in molecular physic 1h0'
        Speaker: H. Köppel (Universität Heidelberg, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Off-diagonal geometric phases
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Off-diagonal geometric phases 1h0'
        Speaker: N. Manini (Università di Milano, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:15 Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Break 15'
    • 11:15 - 12:15 Geometric phases in the presence of noise
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:15 Geometric phases in the presence of noise 1h0'
        Speaker: G. M. Palma (Università di Milano, Crema, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:15 - 14:00 Lunch
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:15 Lunch 1h45'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Electronic transport in an array of quasi-particles in a non-abelian quantum Hall state
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Electronic transport in an array of quasi-particles in a non-abelian quantum Hall state 1h0'
        Speaker: A. Stern (Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
    • 15:00 - 16:00 Non-orthogonal resonances, modified geometric phase and geometric dephasing
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:00 Non-orthogonal resonances, modified geometric phase and geometric dephasing 1h0'
        Speaker: R. Whitney (Université de Genéve, Switzerland)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:00 - 16:15 Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:00 Break 15'
    • 16:15 - 17:15 Entanglement and topological phase in two-qubit systems
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:15 Entanglement and topological phase in two-qubit systems 1h0'
        Speaker: R. Mosseri (Université Paris 6, Paris, France)
    • 17:25 - 18:00 Directors and speakers, discussion
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 17:25 Directors and speakers, discussion 35'
  • Friday, 12 November 2004
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Dipole blockade in Rydberg excitation of cold atoms
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Dipole blockade in Rydberg excitation of cold atoms 1h0'
        Speaker: P. Pillet (CNRS, Lab. Aimé Cotton, Orsay, France)
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Quantum dynamics affected by repeated ancilla measurements
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Quantum dynamics affected by repeated ancilla measurements 1h0'
        Speaker: J. Clausen (CNRS, Lab Aimé Cotton, Orsay, France)
    • 11:00 - 11:15 Break
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Break 15'
    • 11:15 - 11:30 Entropy and entanglement in a two-level atom with Kerr media and superposition of squeezed displaced Fock states
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:15 Entropy and entanglement in a two-level atom with Kerr media and superposition of squeezed displaced Fock states 15'
        Speaker: G. Abd El-Kader (Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt)
    • 11:30 - 11:45 Two examples in quantum pumping: - As a spin pump and as an order parameter resolver for High Tc superconductors
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Two examples in quantum pumping: - As a spin pump and as an order parameter resolver for High Tc superconductors 15'
        Speaker: C. Benjamin (Ins. of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India)
    • 11:45 - 12:00 Quantum entanglement: Nonlocal properties and local invariants
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:45 Quantum entanglement: Nonlocal properties and local invariants 15'
        Speaker: Fei Shao-Ming (Beijing Normal University, P.R. China)
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