Quantum Coherence and Decoherence

CENTRO DE CIENCIAS DE BENASQUE
"PEDRO PASCUAL"

Quantum Coherence and Decoherence

2008, September 13-21



Sunday, September 14
  • 18:00h
    		• Experimental and theoretical investigation of the dynamics of entanglement
     Luiz Davidovich
  • 19:00h
    		• Stochastic TD-CDFT
     Massimiliano Di Ventra

    Monday, September 15
    • 10:30h
      		• Quantum experiments with massive mechanical systems
       Markus Aspelmeyer
    • 12:00h
      		• Mera in 2D
       Jacek Dziarmaga
    • 18:00h
      •  Wojciech Zurek
    • 19:00h
      		• Dynamics of the entanglement between two oscillators in the same environment
       Augusto Roncaglia

      Tuesday, September 16
      • 10:30h
        		• Reconstruction of Schrödinger cat states of light and movie of their decoherence
         Serge Haroche
      • 12:00h
        		• Multiquibit entanglement & decoherence
         Leandro Aolita
      • 12:30h
        		• Protecting entanglement via the quantum Zeno effect
         Sabrina Maniscalco
      • 18:30h
        		• Models for quantum measurement without Schroedinger cat states
         Fritz Haake
      • 19:30h
        		• Bell experiments with energy-time (and time-bin) entanglement
         Adan Cabello
      • 20:30h
        		• Quantum dynamics in the thermodynamic limit
         Jasper Van Wezel

        Wednesday, September 17
        • 18:30h
          		• Poster session if weather permits
           
        • 19:00h
          		• Why Hilbert space?
           Jan Korsbakken
        • 19:30h
          		• Unsharp pointer observables
           Cedric Beny

          Thursday, September 18
          • 10:30h
            		• Decoherence, Disentanglement and the Issue of Quantum Nonlocality: An analysis from a simple system of two qubits interacting with a quantum field
             Bei-Lok Hu
          • 12:00h
            		• What one quantum system can know about another
             Robin Blume-Kohout
          • 18:00h
            		• Environmentally induced correction to the geometric phase in a two-level system
             Fernando Lombardo
          • 19:00h
            		• Nonexponential decoherence in a Levy kicked rotator
             Eric Lutz

            Friday, September 19
            • 10:30h
              		• Decoherence and control of quantum spins in solid state systems
               Slava Dobrovitski
            • 12:00h
              		• Bell test for the free motion of material particles
               Klaus Hornberger
            • 18:30h
              		• Toward topological order and quantum information with ultracold atoms
               Maciej Lewenstein
            • 19:30h
              		• Quantum to classical transition in the kicked harmonic oscillator
               Diego Wisniacki

              Saturday, September 20
              • 10:30h
                		• Decoherence and local relaxation in closed quantum many-body systems
                 Jens Eisert
              • 12:00h
                		• Two short stories on I&I of environments
                 Michael Zwolak
              • 13:00h
                		• Exact quantum circuits for condensed-matter quantum systems
                 Jose Ignacio Latorre
              • 14:00h
                		• Quantum phase transition in space and time in a spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate
                 Bogdan Damski