QT60 – Workshop on thermodynamics, thermoelectrics and transport in quantum devices, 19-21 September 2018
Wednesday, September 19
Session 1, Thermodynamics of classical nanosystems (Chair: Jukka Pekola)
13:55 – 14:00 Sabrina Maniscalco: Welcome
14:00 – 14:30 Sergio Ciliberto: On the heat flux and entropy produced by thermal fluctuations See the SLIDES.
14:30 – 15:00 Yuri Galperin: Optimal protocols for a Maxwell Demon device with errors See the SLIDES.
15:00 – 15:20 Edgar Roldan: Extreme reductions of entropy in an electronic double dot See the SLIDES.
15:20 – 15:40 Kay Brandner: Thermodynamic Bounds on Precision in Ballistic Multi-Terminal Transport See the SLIDES.
15:40 – 16:10 Break
Session 2, Thermoelectricity and cooling (Chair: Christian Flindt)
16:10 – 16:40 Yuri Pashkin: Primary thermometry and electron cooling: on the way to sub-mK temperatures See the SLIDES.
16:40 – 17:10 Fabio Taddei: Absorption refrigerators based on Coulomb-coupled single-electron systems See the SLIDES.
17:10 – 17:30 Clemens Winkelmann: Thermoelectricity in a single quantum dot junction See the SLIDES.
17:30 – 17:50 Mikko Möttönen: On-chip engineered heat baths for quantum devices See the SLIDES.
17:50 – 18:10 Break
Session 3, Stochastic processes (Chair: Tapio Ala-Nissilä)
18:10 – 18:40 Joachim Ankerhold: Josephson photonics: Quantum optics and Cooper pair tunneling See the SLIDES.
18:40 – 19:10 Peter Samuelsson: Nanoscale Quantum Calorimetry with Electronic Temperature Fluctuations See the SLIDES.
20:00 – Sauna and light dinner (invited guests)
Thursday, September 20
Session 4, Thermodynamics of quantum systems I (Chair: Sorin Paraoanu)
08:45 – 09:15 Dmitri Averin: Quantum fluctuations of thermodynamic variables See the SLIDES.
09:15 – 09:45 Benjamin Huard: Quantum thermodynamics of fluorescence and “quantum heat” See the SLIDES.
09:45 – 10:05 Michele Campisi: Quantum Measurement Cooling See the SLIDES.
10:05 – 10:25 Erik Aurell: A path integral theory of heat flow through a system of qubits See the SLIDES.
10:25 – 11:00 Break
Session 5, Pumping (Chair: Juha Hassel)
11:00 – 11:30 Heiner Linke: Realization of an efficient quantum-dot heat engine See the SLIDES.
11:30 – 12:00 Oleg Astafiev: An artificial atom in a transmission line as a quantum sensor See the SLIDES.
12:00 – 12:20 Paolo Muratore Ginanneschi: A model of calorimetric measurements in an open quantum system See the SLIDES.
12:20 – 12:40 Joonas Peltonen: Improved quasiparticle thermalization for single-electron turnstiles See the SLIDES.
12:40 – 14:00 Lunch
Session 6, Thermodynamics of quantum systems II (Chair: Rosario Fazio)
14:00 – 14:30 Francesco Giazotto: Superconducting circuits: The phase-coherence in thermal transport See the SLIDES.
14:30 –15:00 Mauro Paternostro: Irreversible entropy production in non-equilibrium quantum processes See the SLIDES.
15:00 – 15:20 Olli-Pentti Saira: Towards bolometric measurement of the heat of erasure in a quantum bit See the SLIDES.
15:20 – 15:40 Bayan Karimi: Measuring heat current and its fluctuations in superconducting quantum circuits See the SLIDES.
15:40 – 16:10 Break
Session 7, Detectors and sensors (Chair: Mika Prunnila)
16:10 – 16:40 Christian Enss: Challenges and Advances of Practical Primary Thermometers for Very Low Temperature See the SLIDES.
16:40 – 17 Ville Maisi: Material defined double quantum dots as building blocks of quantum systems
17– 17:45 Herve Courtois: A review of Jukka Pekola’s scientific career See the SLIDES.
19:30 Dinner at restaurant Kämp (invited guests)
Friday, September 21
Session 8, Thermometry and mesoscopic heat transport (Chair: Sabrina Maniscalco)
09:00 – 09:30 Andrew Cleland: Quantum control and thermometry of surface acoustic wave phonons See the SLIDES.
09:30 – 10:00 Anne Anthore: Heat Coulomb blockade of one ballistic channel See the SLIDES.
10:00 – 10:20 Sergey Kafanov: Driving a Nanomechanical Resonator with a Phonon Wind in Superfluid 4He See the SLIDES.
10:20 – 10:40 Dmitry Golubev: Statistics of heat exchange between two resistors See the SLIDES.
10:40 – 11:00 Break
Session 9, Mesoscopic superconductivity (Chair: Pertti Hakonen)
11:00 – 11:30 Alexander Mel’nikov: Electromagnetic proximity effect in planar superconductor-ferromagnet structures See the SLIDES.
11:30 – 12:00 Hugues Pothier: Revealing spin-orbit interaction in InAs nanowires by Andreev states spectroscopy See the SLIDES.
12:00 – 12:20 Tero Heikkilä: Superconducting thermoelectric detector See the SLIDES.
12:20 – 12:40 Ivan Khaymovich: Unexpected links between stochastic thermodynamics and criticality at Anderson localization transition See the SLIDES.
12:40 – 14:00 Lunch