Seminar Program





Monday, May 15

08:00 - 19:00 Registration
19:00 Welcome banquet at the Cafeteria




Tuesday, May 16

09:30 - 09:40 Opening
  S. Flach
09:40 - 10:20 Y. Gefen
  Decoherence in Mach-Zehnder interferometer
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:20 F. Pistolesi
  Frequency dispersion of photo assisted noise in mesoscopic conductors
11:20 - 11:40 R. Whitney
  From random matrix to classical and quantum chaotic transport
11:40 - 12:00 O. Bulashenko
  Full counting statistics of a mesoscopic cavity under short-range disorder: Quantum-to-classical crossover
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:20 Y. Utsumi
  Full counting statistics for a single electron transistor: Non-equilibrium effects at intermediate conductance
14:20 - 14:40 B. Kubala
  Quantum fluctuation effects in the thermopower of a single electron transistor
14:40 - 15:00 D. Savin
  Shot noise in chaotic cavities with arbitrary number of open channels
15:00 - 15:20 D. Frustaglia
  Entanglement production in chaotic quantum dots
15:20 - 15:40 V. Meden
  The functional renormalization group: A novel approach to transport through quantum dots
15:40 - 16:00 V. Gopar
  Transport in chaotic quantum dots: Effects of spatial symmetries which interchange the leads and direct processes
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 16:50 S. Bulgadaev
  Influence of topological quantization on transport properties of tunnel systems
16:50 - 17:10 I. Rotter
  Singular points in the complex energy plane, phase rigidity and transmission through quantum billiards
17:10 - 17.30 R. Molina
  Delocalization induced by low-frequency driving in disordered tight-binding lattices
17:30 - 18:30 Informal discussions
18:30 Dinner




Wednesday, May 17

09:00 - 09:40 O. Buisson
  Quantum dynamics and decoherence in a dc SQUID
09:40 - 10:20 E. Paladino
  Decoherence and decoupling in superconducting nanocircuits
10:20 - 10:30 Group photo!
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:20 P. Degiovanni
  Entanglement and decoherence of N qubits and a mesoscopic field in a cavity
11:30 - 12:10 S. Paraoanu
  The life-after-death of a Schrödinger cat
12:10 - 14:00 Lunch
14:30 - 15:10 A. Golubov
  Proximity effect in unconventional superconductors
15:10 - 15:40 S. Kettemann
  Free magnetic moments in disordered metals
15:40 - 16:00 M. Braun
  Noise and spin precession
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:30 Poster session I
18:30 Dinner



Thursday, May 18

09:00 - 09:40 A. Finkelstein
  Metal-insulator transition in disordered two-dimensional electron gas
09:40 - 10:20 S. Kravchenko
  Critical behavior of the spin susceptibility near the 2D metal-insulator transition
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:20 A. Shashkin
  Pauli spin susceptibility of a strongly correlated 2D electron gas: Evidence for a phase transition
11:20 - 12:00 D. Averin
  Coherent transport of FQHE quasiparticles in antidot systems and topological quantum computation
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Informal discussions
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 Sightseeing tour through Dresden
18:45 Conference Dinner in the restaurant ''Zum Schießhaus"




Friday, May 19

09:00 - 09:40 Y. Nazarov
  G_Q corrections in quantum circuit theory
09:40 - 10:20 P. Hakonen
  Landau-Zener interferometry in a Cooper pair box
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:30 J. Mooij
  Superconducting nanowires as quantum phase slip junctions
11:30 - 12:10 K. Arutyunov
  QPS phenomena in ultra-narrow 1D superconductors
12:10 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:40 T. Klapwijk
  Spin triplet supercurrent through the half-metallic ferromagnet CrO2
14:40 - 15:10 S. Sharov
  Parity number effect and spontaneous currents in superconducting nanorings
15:10 - 15:40 D. Bagrets
  Current fluctuations in the vicinity of superconducting transition
15:40 - 16:00 E. Lhotel
  Divergence of the shot noise at low voltage in diffusive SNS junctions of intermediate size
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 16:50 M. Kalenkov
  Minigap, parity effect and persistent currents in SNS nanorings
16:50 - 17:20 J. Wei
  Current-Driven Phase Slips in Nanostructured YBa2Cu3O7-delta
17:20 - 17:40 J.-R. Tarento
  Spin and charge Josephson effects between non-uniform superconductors with coexisting helimagnetic order
17:40 - 18:30 Informal discussions
18:30 Dinner


Workshop Program





Sunday, May 21

18:00 - 21:00 Registration
19:00 Welcome banquet at the Cafeteria




Monday, May 22

08:20 - 08:30 Opening
  Scientific Coordinators
08:30 - 09:00 G. Schön
  Introductory remarks: Low-temperature dephasing and renormalization in model systems
09:00 - 09:40 G. Zarand
  Theory of inelastic scattering from quantum impurities
09:40 - 10:20 L. Saminadayar
  Decoherence in quantum wires and quantum networks
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:30 B. Hackens
  Electron and hole decoherence in open ballistic quantum dots
11:30 - 12:10 D. Golubev
  Weak localization and electron-electron interactions in quantum dots
12:10 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:40 J.-J. Lin
  Low temperature electron dephasing times in impure CuGeAu thin films
14:40 - 15:20 F. Guinea
  Decoherence of low energy quasiparticles in mesoscopic systems
15:20 - 16:00 J. Bird
  Quantum transport and decoherence in Pt/C granular nanowires
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30 decons06 - Colloquium:
  R. Webb
  Shot noise and decoherence in nanostructures
17:30 - 17:50 Informal discussions
17:50 - 18:30 J. von Delft
  Decoherence of Interacting Electrons in Disordered Metals: Leading Quantum Corrections to the Decoherence Rate
18:30 - 19:00 A. Zaikin
  Some remarks on electron decoherence at zero temperature
19:00 Dinner
21:00 (optional) Informal discussions


Tuesday, May 23

09:00 - 09:40 M. Büttiker
  Dephasing and inelastic scattering from voltage probes
09:40 - 10:20 H. Bouchiat
  Mesoscopic rectification and Landauer dipoles in phase coherent Aharonov-Bohm rings
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:30 G. Montambaux
  Non-exponential relaxations in disordered Fermi liquids
11:30 - 12:10 C. Bruder
  Current cross-correlations in mesoscopic devices
12:10 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:40 U. Weiss
  Counting statistics of open point contact tunneling
14:40 - 15:20 K. Ensslin
  Shot noise in quantum dots
15:20 - 16:00 H. Grabert
  Josephson junctions as on-chip detectors
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:10 M. Manninen
  Rotating electrons in quantum dots: Quantum Hall liquid in the classical limit
17:10 - 17:30 P. Virtanen
  Measuring of non-Gaussian noise with mesoscopic detectors and/or supercurrent-induced thermoelectric effects in superconductor/normal metal systems
17:30 - 17:50 J.-E. Wegrowe
  Conductance in multiwall carbon nanotubes and semiconductor nanowires
17:50 - 18:10 V. Kagalovsky
  Charging energy for a single electron box and interference in presence of dissipation
18:10 - 18:30 P. Schwab
  Quasiclassical approach to the spin-Hall effect in the two-dimensional electron gas
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Poster session II


Wednesday, May 24

09:00 - 09:40 P.E. Lindelof
  Superconducting contacts to carbon nanotubes
09:40 - 10:20 V. Chandrasekhar
  Charge imbalance, elastic cotunneling and crossed Andreev reflection: Non-local effects in normal-superconducting systems
10:20 - 10:30 Group photo!
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:30 J. Pekola
  Observation of radiative cooling of electrons through superconducting leads
11:30 - 12:10 P. Delsing
  Counting of single electrons and Cooper pairs
12:10 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:40 P. Mohanty
  Realizing quantum nanomechanics
14:40 - 15:20 Y. Nakamura
  Decoherence in flux qubit
15:20 - 16:00 V. Petrashov
  Andreev probe of superconducting qubits
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:10 P. Hänggi
  Coherence stabilization in one- and two-qubit gates
17:10 - 17:40 P. Bertet
  Decoherence of superconducting qubits
17:40 - 18:00 R. Klesse
  Correlated decoherence in many-qubit systems
18:00 - 18:20 S. Reimann
  Localization by rotation
18:30 Dinner




Thursday, May 25

09:00 - 09:40 S. Tarucha
  Probing and manipulating spin effects in quantum dots
09:40 - 10:20 C. Lambert
  Electron and spin transport through single molecules
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:30 H. Takayanagi
  Spin correlation in a double quantum dot - quantum wire coupled system
11:30 - 12:10 A. Shnirman
  Geometrical spin dephasing in quantum dots
12:10 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:40 N. Birge
  Spin-flip scattering below the Kondo temperature
15:00 Excursion to Bautzen
19:00 Conference Dinner in Bautzen


Friday, May 26

09:00 - 09:40 E. Il'ichev
  Experimental investigation of an interferometer type charge-flux qubit
09:40 - 10:20 J. Clarke
  Entanglement of two flux qubits with controlled interaction
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 Concluding remarks
  C. Bäuerle, A. Zaikin, G. Schön
12:00 Lunch