Quantum Pumping

Supported by

The Lewiner Institute for Theoretical Physics and

The Minerva Center for Nonlinear Physics of Complex Systems

  

January 7-12, 2007

The Lewiner Institute for Theoretical Physics

Technion, Haifa, Israel

 

Program

 

Saturday 6^th January

 

        20:00             Reception at the Ganei Dan Hotel

 

Sunday 7^th January, Seminar Room B

       09:45              Opening and coffee

      10:00-10:45     Qian Niu, University of Texas at Austin

                              Geometric phase effects in transport under parametric forces

      11:00-11:45    Sigmund Kohler, University of Augsburg

                              Current fluctuations in nonadiabatic electron pumps

      13:00               Lunch Break

      14:30-15:15    Piet Brouwer, Cornell University

                              Semiclassical theory of a quantum pump

      15:30-16:15    Miriam Blaauboer, Delft University of Technology

                              New geometries for spin and charge pumping

      16:30               Coffee Break

      17:00-17:45    Gian Michele Graf, ETH Zurich

                              Fredholm determinants and counting statistics

      18:00-18:45    Jukka Pekola, Helsinki University of Technology

                              Flux and charge controlled Cooper pair pumping

 

Monday, 8th January, Lewiner Institute Seminar Room

 

      10:00-10:45    Mikhail Kiselev, University of Wuerzburg

Kondo effect in organometallic complexes and nanoelectromechanical

Devices

      11:00               Coffee Break

      13:00               Lunch and Poster Session, Physics Lidow Complex Foyer

 

      16:00               Coffee Break

      16:30-17:15    Valerii Vinokour, Argonne National Lab

                              Spectral flow and charge pumping through quantum SINIS Contacts

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 9th January, Lewiner Institute Seminar Room

 

       10:15              Visit to Bahai Center and lunch in the city

 

      15:30               Coffee Break

      16:00               Greetings: Professor Peretz Lavie, Technion Vice-President for
Resource Development and External Relations       

      16:05-16:50    Juergen Koenig, Ruhr-Universität Bochum 

                               Adiabatic pumping through interacting quantum dots

      17:05-17:50    Yuval Oreg, Weizmann Institute

Pumping in interacting systems

 

Wednesday, 10th January, Lewiner Institute Seminar Room

 

      10:00-10:45    Frank Hekking, University of Grenoble

                              Superconducting charge pumps

      11:00               Coffee Break

 

      13:00               Lunch

      16:00               Coffee Break

      16:30-17:15    Doron Cohen, Ben-Gurion University

                              Quantum stirring of particles in closed devices

 

      20:00               Conference Dinner

 

Thursday, 11^th January, Lewiner Institute Seminar Room

 

       10:00-10:45   Yosi Avron, Technion

                              Quantum swimmers

       11:00              Coffee Break

 

      13:00               Lunch

 

      14:30-15:15    Maxim Vavilov, Yale University

Zero resistance state as a manifestation of charge pumping in disordered     
2DEG

      16:00               Coffee Break

 

      16:30               Markus Buettiker, University of Geneva

                              Physics Department Colloquium: Shot Noise: From Schottky to Bell

                               Lecture Hall 323, Lidow Physics Complex

 

Friday, 12th January, Lewiner Institute Seminar Room

       

      09:30-10:15    Rosario Fazio, Scuola Normale, Pisa

                              Non-abelian superconducting pumps

     10:30-11:15     Markus Buettiker, University of Geneva

Dynamics of mesoscopic capacitors    

    

     11:30               Coffee Break

     12:00                Concluding Remarks

     13:00                Lunch

  

The conference dinner is on Wednesday 10^th January.

Arrangements for the other dinners will be announced at a later date.