Nanoscale Dynamics and Quantum Coherence

MCRTN International Workshop   Catania October 2-5, 2005

 

Sunday, October 2

09.00-10.15

Welcome party and registration

10.15-10.30

Opening address

10.30-11.30

Session

10.30-11.00

Jean-Louis Pichard (Saclay), “Interacting electron systems between Fermi leads: Effective one-body transmissions and correlation clouds

11.00-11.30

Bogdan R. Bulka (Poznan), “Correlated Electronic Transport in Double Quantum Dot System”

11.30-11.45

Coffee break

11.45-12.15

Rodolfo A. Jalabert (Strasbourg), "Electron Transport through Disordered Domain Walls in Ferromagnetic Nanowires"

12.15-12.45

Jun-Ichiro Ohe (Hamburg), “Dynamics of a domain wall and spin-wave excitations driven by a mesoscopic current”

12.45-13.40

Lunch, coffee @ posters

13.40-15.00

Session

13.40-14.00

Elisabetta Paladino (Catania),"Decoherence and decoupling in superconducting nanocircuits"

14.00-14.30

Henning Schomerus (Lancaster), “Non-exponential relaxation from entanglement with stationary unobserved degrees of freedom”

14.30-15.00

Elsa Prada (Karlsruhe), “Clauser-Horne inequality and decoherence in mesoscopic conductors”

15.00-15.40

Coffee @ posters

 

15.40-16.40

Session

15.40-16.00

Matteo Merlo (Genova), "Conductivity and Second Generation Composite Fermions ”

16.00-16.20

Masayuki Yamamoto (Hamburg), “Spin polarization and spin Hall effect in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling”

16.20-16.40

Alexander Struck (Hamburg), “Electron-electron interaction in the integer quantum Hall effect”

17.30-19.30

Visit to town

 

Monday, October 3

09.30-10.30

Session

9.30-10.00

C.W.J. Beenakker (Leiden), “Critical temperature for electron-hole entanglement”

10.00-10.30

Fernando Sols (Madrid), “Emission of entangled electron pairs from hybrid normal-superconducting structures"

10.30-11.10

Coffee @ posters

11.10-12.30

Session

11.10-11.40

Luigi Amico (Catania), "Thermal Entanglement close to a Quantum Phase Transition"

11.40-12.00

Andrea Fubini (Catania), "What entanglement can tell about spin systems"

12.00-12.30

J. H. Jefferson (Malvern), “Carbon nanotube electron entanglers”

12.50-14.00

Lunch, coffee @ posters

14.10-15.00

Session

14.10-14.30

J. H. Bardarson (Leiden), “Stroboscopic model of transport through a quantum dot with spin-orbit scattering”

14.30-15.00

Anton Ramsak (Ljubljana), "Kondo effect in multiple quantum dots"

15.00-15.30

Coffee @ posters

15.30-16.30

Session

15.30-15.50

Mugurel Tolea (Poznan), "Transport through a quantum dot with a magnetic impurity"

15.50-16.10

M. Fearn (Malvern), "Gate Control of Spin Qubits in Quantum Dots"

16.10-16.30

Andras Palyi (Budapest), “Electron scattering on a Rashba quantum dot”

16.30-18.00

Meeting RTN contractors/Poster session

 

Tuesday, October 4

09.30-10.50

Session

09.30-10.00

F. Cataliotti (Guest speaker from Università di Catania), "Quantum Systems in Optical Potentials"

10.00-10.20

J. Siewert (Catania), "Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage in Superconducting Nanocircuits"

10.20-10.50

B. Michaelis (Leiden), “All-electronic coherent population trapping in quantum dots”

10.50-11.20

Coffee @ posters

11.20-12.40

Session

11.20-11.50

Roberto Raimondi (Roma), "Spin Hall conductivity of a two dimensional electron system"

11.50-12.20

Stefan Kettemann (Hamburg), "Spin Correlations in Disordered Mesoscopic Metals”

12.20-12.40

Peter Major (Budapest), “Non-universal behavior of the conductance oscillations in monovalent atomic chains”

12.40-14.00

Lunch, coffee @ posters

14.00-15.30

Session

14.00-14.30

Steve Bailey (Lancaster),  “Engineering the band structure of Decachlorofullerene[50] carbon nanotube peapods”

14.30-14.50

Victor Manuel Garcia Suarez (Lancaster), "Spin-dependent transport in chains of metallocenes inside carbon nanotubes”

14.50-15.10

Jernej Mravlje (Ljubljana) "Conductance of deformable molecules with interaction"

15.10-15.30

Paolo Barone (Roma), “The electron-phonon interaction in the presence of strong correlation: a slave-boson approach.”

15.30-16.00

Coffee @ posters

16.00-17.30

Session

16.00-16.30

Andor Kormanyos (Lancaster), “Quantum-classical correspondence in the wavefunctions of Andreev billiards”

16.30-17.00

Z. Kaufmann (Budapest), "Revisiting the semiclassical quantization of Andreev billiards”

17.00-17.30

Peter Polinak (Lancaster), “Magnetic quasiparticle focusing and Andreev drag effect in S-N hybrid waveguides”

 

Meeting Dinner

 

Wednesday, October  5

09.30-11.00

Session

9.30-10.00

A. Braggio (Genova), “Full Counting Statistics in Strongly Interacting Systems: Non-Markovian Effects”

10.00-10.20

Federica Haupt (Genova), “Shot-noise in charge and orbital currents of a quantum ring”

10.20-10.40

I. Snyman (Leiden), “Quantum Tunneling Detection of Two-photon and Two-electron Processes”

10.40-11.00

Valentin S. Rychkov (Genève), "Photon-assisted electron-hole shot noise in multi-terminal conductors”

11.00-11.30

Coffee

 

11.30-13.00

Session

11.30-12.00

M. Rey (Madrid), "Transport suppression in heterostructures driven by an ac gate voltage"

12.00-12.30

Janine Splettstoesser (Pisa),  "Adiabatic Pumping through interacting Quantum Dots"

12.30-13.00

Gloria Platero (Madrid), “AC-driven double quantum dots operated as spin pumps and bipolar spin filters”

13.00-13.45

Lunch

14.00

Trip to Siracusa

 

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