QTNS2018

Abstract (Oral)
November 7-10, 2018

Program
Wednesday 7

Thursday 8
9:00Kishine,
9:30
Junichiro

Friday 9
9:00- Nakata, Yosuke
9:30

Invitedtalks

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9:309:50
9:5010:30
10:30-11:00Aono, Tomosuke

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Shevchenko,
SergeyNakagawa,
MasayaKwek, LeongChuan
Lunch

EntinWohlman,
Ora
Yamamoto, Kaoru
Hatano,NaomichiLunch

11:3012:50
12:5013:00
13:0014:00
14:0015:00

RegistrationOpening

15:0015:30

Coffee15:0015:20

Shirai,
Tatsuhiko

15:3016:30

Tokura,Yasuhiro

15:2015:40

Mori,
Takashi

16:3017:30

Katsumoto,Shingo15:4016:10

Coffee17:3019:00

Welcomereception

16:1016:30

Kato,
Akihito16:3016:50

Phuc,
NguyenThanh
PosterMoskalet,MichaelAharony,
Ammon

11:30–
12:00
12:0013:00
13:0014:00
14:0015:00

Kato,
Takeo
Coffee16:5018:00

Sagawa,Takahiro

CoffeeOtsuka,Tomohiro

Vacchini,Bassano
Bastidas, Victor
ManuelHashimoto,Kazunari
CoffeeEsposito,
Massimiliano
Uchiyama
ChikakoSummary(Aharony, A)
BanquetSaturday 10
10:00 Discussio
n session
10:30
10:30 Coffee-11:00
11:00- Discussio
12:00 n session

Wednesday, 7th

Invited talkA few-electron system surfing in the Fermi sea
Moskalets M.
In this talk I will give a brief introduction into the Floquet scattering matrix approach and will apply it todescribe properties of single electrons injected on-demand into the Fermi sea.
When an electron is injected into a conductor, it meets another electrons. Actually, it meets the whole Fermi
sea of electrons, whose state becomes imprinted in the state of the injected electron (if the process of injection
is gentle enough). At zero temperature, the Fermi sea is quiet, its quantum state is a pure state. The state of theinjected electron is also a pure state that is orthogonal to the state of the Fermi sea. In contrast, at nonzero
temperatures, the state of the Fermi sea becomes a mixed state, each component of which is responsible for theappearance of the state of the injected electron orthogonal to it. All together, these states form a mixed state of
an injected particle.
The pure-to-mixed state conversion results in a bizarre temperature dependence of quantities like shot noise,
which are sensitive to multi-particle events. The single-particle shot noise decreases with temperature, whichis explained as if a single-particle mixed state would demonstrate some degree of second-order coherence. In
the case of injection of N-electron excitations, the shot noise is not additive and less prone to temperature,
which is due to HBT-like correlations between injected electrons developed at nonzero temperatures.
Moreover, in the macroscopic limit, N-> ∞, the shot noise becomes additive and completely insensitive totemperature. Another manifestation of mixedness is the fusion phenomenon, where the system of N electrons
behaves as one particle of the total charge Ne. The reason for this is that with increase of a temperatureinduced mixedness, the difference between the states of N electrons is diminished.

Invited talkSpin Orbit interactions, time reversal symmetry
and spin filtering
Amnon Aharony
Ben Gurion and Tel Aviv Universities, Israel
Quantum computing requires the ability to write and read quantum information on the spinors of electrons.
Here we discuss writing information on mobile electrons, which move through mesoscopic (or molecular)
quantum wire networks. When such a network is connected to one source and one drain then time-reversal
symmetry and unitarity imply no spin polarization. Tunable spin filtering can be achieved by adding an
Aharonov-Bohm flux [1], which breaks time-reversal symmetry, or by leakage, which breaks unitarity [2].
Alternatively, filtering is also achieved with more than one drain [3].
Filtering can also be achieved for a single one-dimensional wire which has both spin-orbit interactions and a
Zeeman field [4].
1. A. Aharony, Y. Tokura, G. Z. Cohen, O. Entin-Wohlman, and S. Katsumoto, Filtering andanalyzing mobile qubit information via Rashba-Dresselhaus-Aharonov-Bohm interferometers,
Phys. Rev. B 84, 035323 (2011); (arXiv:1103.2232)
2. S. Matityahu, A. Aharony, O. Entin-Wohlman, and S. Katsumoto, Robustness of spin filtering
against current leakage in a Rashba-Dresselhaus-Aharonov-Bohm interferometer, Phys. Rev. B
87, 205438 (2013); (arXiv:1302.6772)
3. S. Matityahu, A. Aharony, O. Entin-Wohlman, and C. A. Balseiro, Spin filtering in all-electrical
three-terminal interferometers, Phys. Rev. B 95, 085411 (2017); (arXiv:1611.01832)
4. A. Aharony, O. Entin-Wohlman, M. Jonson, R. I. Shekhter, Electric and Magnetic Gating of
Rashba-Active Weak Links, Phys. Rev. B 97, 220404(R) 2017; (arXiv:1804.09936)

Invited talkAdiabatic and diabatic dynamics in quantum systems
Yasuhiro Tokura (University of Tsukuba)
For open quantum systems described by the quantum master equation (QME), we investigated quantum
adiabatic pumping using the full counting statistics formalism [1,2]. The adiabatic pump is given by a line
integral in the control parameter space and its integrand is called the Berry–Sinitsyn–Nemenman (BSN)
vector. We showed that this approach is equivalent to the adiabatic response formalism as far as the averagevalues are concerned [2] and investigate the gauge freedom in this formalism [3]. We apply this formalism tothe excess entropy production under quasistatic operations between nonequilibrium steady states [4]. The
average entropy production is composed of the time integral of the instantaneous steady entropy production
rate and the excess entropy production. In the weakly nonequilibrium regime, we derived the BSN vector
which is described with the density operator of the instantaneous steady state of the QME and the density
operator given by the QME with reversing the sign of the Lamb shift term. We will also refer to other typesof quantum pumping [5].
References:[1] M. Esposito, et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 1665 (2009) [2] S. Nakajima, M. Taguchi, T. Kubo, and Y.
Tokura, Phys. Rev. B 92, 195420 (2015).
[3] T. Pluecker, et al., Phys. Rev. B 95, 155431 (2017).
[4] S. Nakajima and Y. Tokura, J. Stat. Phys. 169, 902 (2017).
[5] M. Taguchi, S. Nakajima, T. Kubo and Y. Tokura, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 85,
084704 (2016).

Invited talk
“Zitterbewegung” appeared as fluctuation in transport between
quantum point contacts
Shingo Katsumoto, Yu Iwasaki, Yoshiaki Hashimoto and Taketomo Nakamura
Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, JapanFor a particle which obeys the Dirac equation, velocity is not a well-defined quantity in that the kinetic motion
in real space mixes with the spin freedom. Such a quantum mechanical state can be described as a superpositionof states with zigzag motion (trembling motion), which is called “Zitterbewegung” (ZB) in Germany[1]. A
trivial analog in electrons in solids is oscillation in velocity of classical electrons due to periodic lattice potential.
A bit non-trivial phenomenon closer to the ZB of electrons in vacuum is a zigzag motion of electrons due tothe spin-orbit mixing of the two (electron and hole) freedoms. This is also called ZB and expected to beobservable in experiments though no clear observation has been reported.
For the observation, we need to prepare spin-polarized electrons through some non-adiabatic process. We
have experimentally confirmed that a quantum point contact (QPC) in a system with strong Rashba-type
spinorbit interaction (RSOI) can work as an efficient spin polarizer on plateaus of a half and of a one
conductance quantum (2e2/h) [2]. Hence a system of QPCs with RSOI can provide an ideal test-bed of ZB in
solids.
Figure 1(a) shows a schematic view of the present system with two sets of three parallel QPCs madefrom InAs 2DEG. The two are placed face-to-face. The two-terminal conductance through a confronting QPC
pair as a function of magnetic field for various field directions is shown in Fig.1 (b). Reproducible fluctuations
reminiscent of universal conductance fluctuation (UCF) appear in the magneto-conductance. Surprisingly the
amplitude nor the characteristic frequency does not change with the field angle. In combination with transportmeasurement not through QPCs, the fluctuation can provide evidence that the Zitterbewegung really occurs inour sample [3].
References[1] W. Zawadzki and T. M. Rusin, J. Phys.: Condensed
Matter 23, 143201 (2011).
[2] S. W. Kim, Y. Hashimoto, T. Nakamura, S. Katsumoto,Phys. Rev. B 94, 125307 (2016). 0 [3] Y. Iwasaki, Y.
Hashimoto, T. Nakamura, S. Katsumoto, Scientificreports 7, 7909 (2017).
70mK

/2

(a)
Fig. 1. (a) QPC positioning in the sample. (b) Conductance fluctuation (through QPC 2 to 5) versus magnetic
field. The field is rotated from 0
Magnetic Field (T)(parallel to the plane) to /2 (perpendicular).
(b)Thursday, 8th

Invited talkSoliton transport in chiral helimagnet
Jun-ichiro Kishine
The Open University of Japan, Chiba261-8586, Japan
In chiral magnetic materials, the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling may appear on a macroscopic level in the formof the asymmetric Dzyaloshinskii-Moryia interaction (DMI) (a)that can stabilize topologically nontrivial magnetic phases. In a
monoaxial chiral helimagnet, the ground state continuouslytransforms into a periodic array of the commensurate (C) (b)domains partitioned by incommensurate (IC) chiral twists. This
discommensurate state, a main subject of this review article, (c)has several names, i.e., chiral soliton lattice (CSL), helicoid, ormagnetic kink crystal. The CSL was first predicted by
Dzyaloshinskii[1] in 1960s but finally overbed in 2012[2]. (d)Refs.[3] and [4] are review articles on this topics.
As the magnetic field strength increases, the spatial period (e)of the CSL increases and finally goes to infinity at the criticalfield strength, as depicted in Fig. 1. The Hamiltonian density in the continuum limit, which describe the CSL,
is given by
Figure 1: Formation of chiral soliton , (1)lattice in mono-axial chiral helimagnet.
where a0 is the lattice constant, S = Sn is the local spin moment, Jz > 0 is the nearest-neighbor ferromagnetic
exchange interaction, Dz = Dzeˆz is the mono-axial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction along a certain
crystallographic helical axis (z-axis). We take z-axis as the mono-axis and apply a static magnetic field H˜
to stabilize the CSL state. Apparently, the Hamiltonian (1) isquite simple, but it contains quite rich dynamics [2,4,5] including
Zero mode and elementary excitations
Collective sliding dynamics of the whole CSL
Isolated chiral soliton surfing over the CSL
Confined dynamics of the CSL
Strong non-linear response in the dilute soliton regime
In this presentation, I will show how to describe and use these soliton dynamics.
This work has been done under close collaboration with Alexander Ovchinnikov, Igor Proskurin and Yoshi
Togawa.
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References[1] I. E. Dzyaloshinskii, Sov. Phys. JETP19, 960 (1964), JETP 20, 223 (1965), JETP 20, 665 (1965). [2] Y
Togawa, T Koyama, K Takayanagi, S Mori, Y Kousaka, J Akimitsu, S Nishihara, K Inoue, AS Ovchinnikov, Ji Kishine, Phys. Rev. Lett.108 (10), 107202 (2012).
[3]
Y. Togawa, Y. Kouska, K. Inoue and J. Kishine, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 85, 112001(2016).
[4]
J. Kishine and A.S.Ovchinnikov, Solid State Physics Vol.66, Chapter 1 (Elsevier, Academic Press,2015).
[5]
F. J. T. Goncalves, T. Sogo, Y. Shimamoto, I. Proskurin, Vl. E. Sinitsyn, Y. Kousaka, I. G. Bostrem, J.
Kishine, A. S. Ovchinnikov, and Y. Togawa, Phys. Rev. B98, 144407 (2018).

Spin-current noise in magnetic bilayer systems
Takeo Kato
Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo
In the research field of mesoscopic physics, current noise measurement is an important tool to obtain useful information
on electronic transport such as determination of the effective charge, evaluation of electron entanglement, and even spin
accumulation. In the research field of spintronics, the pure spin current induced by, e.g., spin pumping and spin Seebeck
effect (see the left pictures of Fig. 1) is a central research subject. Recently, the noise of this pure spin current has measured
by using the inverse spin Hall effect [1]. Although the noise of the pure spin current is expected to have useful information,
its theoretical study has, however, been overlooked for a long time, and has just started recently in a few papers [2, 3].
In this presentation, we consider a normal metal(NM)/ferromagnetic insulator(FI) bilayer system, which is an
important platform of spintronics [4]. Starting with a microscopic spin-exchange model, and using the secondorder
perturbation with respect to the NM-FI interface coupling [5], we derive expressions of the spin-current noise in terms of
the propagators of electrons and magnons. We discuss how temperature dependences of the spin-current noise containuseful information on the microscopic mechanism of the spin-current generation (see the right graph of Fig. 1). We
conclude that measurement of the spin-current noise indeed provides a powerful tool in research of spintronics.
This study is a joint research with M. Matsuo (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China), Y. Ohnuma (Kavli
Institute for Theoretical Physics China), and S. Maekawa (RIKEN).

Figure 1: (Left) Schematics of spin-current generation by spin Seebeck effect and spin pumping. (Right) Temperaturedependence of the spin-current noise. The temperature is normalized by the Curie temperature of the ferromagnetic
insulator. Temperature dependence of thermal spin-current noise is also shown.

References[1] A. Kamra, F. P. Witek, S. Meyer, H. Huebl, S. Geprags, R. Gross, G. E. W. Bauer, and S. T. B. Goennenwein,¨Phys. Rev. B 90 (2014) 214419.
[2] A. Kamra and W. Belzig, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (2016) 146601.
[3] S. Takei and M. Mohseni, Phys. Rev. B 97 (2018) 014427.
[4] M. Matsuo, Y. Ohnuma, T. Kato, and S. Maekawa, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120 (2018) 037201.
[5] Y. Ohnuma, M. Matsuo, and S. Maekawa, Phys. Rev. B 96 (2017) 134412.

Invited talkEnhanced performance of three-terminal thermoelectric devices
Ora Entin-Wohlman
Tel Aviv University and Ben Gurion University, Israel
A three-terminal device, comprising two electronic terminals and a thermal one (see figure below), is
discussed. In the first part, we investigate the coefficient of performance for the joint operation of cooling oneof the electronic terminals and producing electric power. Surprisingly enough, the coefficient of performancecan be enhanced as compared to the case where that electronic terminal is cooled by investing thermal power(from the thermal bath) and electric power (from voltage applied across the electronic junction). We next
examine the efficiency of an effective two-terminal thermoelectric device under a broken time-reversal
symmetry which is derived from the three-terminal thermoelectric device. We find that breaking timereversal symmetry can enhance the figure of merit for delivering electric power by supplying heat from aphonon bath beyond the one for producing the electric power by investing thermal power from the electronicbaths. We also show that such a device cannot reach the Carnot efficiency, contrary to a recent claim.
[1]
O. Entin-Wohlman and A. Aharony, Three-terminal thermoelectric transport under broken timereversal symmetry, Phys. Rev. B 85, 085401 (2012).
[2]
O. Entin-Wohlman, Y. Imry, and A. Aharony, Enhanced performance of joint cooling and energy
production, Phys. Rev. B 91, 054302 (2015).
[3]
Kaoru Yamamoto, Ora Entin-Wohlman, Amnon Aharony, and Naomichi Hatano, Efficiency bounds
on thermoelectric transport in magnetic fields: the role of inelastic processes, Phys. Rev. B 94, 121402(R)(2016).
[4]

Invited talkEfficiency bounds on thermoelectric transport in magnetic fields: the role of inelastic processes
with a three-terminal junction
Kaoru Yamamoto
Research Center for Magnetic and Spintronic Materials, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 12-1 Sengen, Tsukuba 305-0047, JapanOra Entin-Wohlman, Amnon Aharony
Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Physics Department, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel
Naomichi Hatano
Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwanoha 5-1-5, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8574, Japan
It has been argued that breaking time-reversal symmetry can enhance thermoelectric efficiency. Benenti et
al. recently claimed [1] that in this case one can achieve the Carnot efficiency with a finite power, which appears
to contradict the second law of thermodynamics. This idea has attracted much interest recently; see refs. [2, 3]
for example.
In order to investigate this claim and to seek high efficiency, we consider a mesoscopic thermoelectric device
made of an Aharonov-Bohm ring threaded by a magnetic flux, incorporating electron-phonon scattering [4].
The model has a quantum dot and three reservoirs: two electronic reservoirs and a bosonic one; see Figure 1.
Electrons are inelastically scattered by bosons at the quantum dot. This three-terminal model can be reduced toan effective two-terminal one, that complies with the requirements of Benenti et al.
With this model, we find the following two results [5]: First, we find that, contrary to Benenti’s claim [1], sucha device cannot reach the Carnot efficiency under a magnetic field because of the non-negativity condition on
the entropy production of the original model with three reservoirs. Second, we find that breaking time-reversal
symmetry and including the electron-phonon interaction can enhance the thermoelectric efficiency significantly
beyond the one without the interaction.
phononic
reservoir

electronic
reservoir

electronic
reservoir

Figure 1: Model of a thermoelectric device, comprising two electronic terminals (held at chemical potentials µLand µR, and at temperatures TL and TR) and a thermal terminal held at a temperature TP, with which the electrons
exchange energy. The nanostructure is modeled by an Aharonov-Bohm ring threaded by a magnetic flux Φ.
The electrons exchange energy with vibrational modes on a dot placed on the upper arm..
References[1] G. Benenti, K. Saito, and G. Casati, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106 (2011), 230602 .
[2] N. Shiraishi, K. Saito, and H. Tasaki, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117 (2016), 190601 .
[3] N. Shiraishi and H. Tajima, Phys. Rev. E 96 (2017), 022138 .
[4] O. Entin-Wohlman and A. Aharony, Phys. Rev. B 85 (2012), 085401 .
[5] K. Yamamoto, O. Entin-Wohlman, A. Aharony, and N. Hatano, Phys. Rev. B 94 (2016), 121402(R) .

Hatano NaomichiInvited talkSecond law and eigenstate thermalization in isolated quantum many-body systems
Takahiro Sagawa
The origin of macroscopic irreversibility under microscopic reversible dynamics is a fundamental problem
ever since the seminal thought by Boltzmann. In recent years, this problem has attracted renewed attentions,in light of quantum statistical mechanics and experimental progress in ultracold atoms. In particular, it has
been recognized that the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) plays a crucial role in understanding themechanism of thermalization in isolated quantum systems, which states that even a single energy eigenstateis thermal.
In this talk, I will present our recent result on the second law and the fluctuation theorem for purequantum states [1]. In our setup, the entire system obeys unitary dynamics, where the initial state of theheat bath is not the Gibbs ensemble but a single energy eigenstate. Our proof is mathematically rigorous,
where the Lieb-Robinson bound plays a crucial role. Our result would reveal a scenario that the second law
emerges from quantum mechanics. In addition, I will also talk about numerical large deviation analysis of theETH [2], which directly evaluates the number of athermal energy eigenstates and validates the ETH for nonintegrable systems.
[1] E. Iyoda, K. Kaneko, and T. Sagawa, PRL 119, 100601 (2017). [2] T.
Yoshizawa, E. Iyoda, and T. Sagawa, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 200604 (2018).

Emergence of the Gibbs state in weakly dissipative quantum systems based on the eigenstate
thermalization hypothesis
Tatsuhiko Shirai
Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo
Takashi Mori
RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS)

We investigate steady states of macroscopic open quantum systems weakly coupled to out-of-equilibrium
environment. Coupled to a large environment, the system is relaxed to a steady state due to dissipation. Whenthe environment is in thermal equilibrium, the system is universally relaxed to a Gibbs state by virtue of thedetailed balance condition. In contrast, when the environment is out-of-equilibrium, the detailed balance
condition is violated, and there is no simple form to describe the steady state. It is a challenge in statisticalphysics to predict steady states in such non-equilibrium situations. The study of steady state under dissipation
not obeying the detailed balance is also motivated by recent experimental progress in cold atoms and trapped
ions. In these systems, it becomes possible to introduce a controlled dissipation so that the steady state possesses
a desired property, e.g. long-range order or topological order [1].
In this work, we suggest a connection between the steady states in the non-equilibrium situation andeigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) [For ETH, see [2, 3]]. We found that the Gibbs state at a certain
effective temperature is a good description of the steady states of some open quantum systems despite theviolation of the detailed balance condition [4]. We theoretically argue that there are two ingredients inemergence of the Gibbs state: the validity of the perturbation theory in the weak system-environment coupling
and the ETH.
Our main discussion for the emergence of the Gibbs state is on the validity of the weak-coupling perturbation
theory. It was discussed in [5] that the convergence radius of the perturbative series quickly shrinks to zero as
the system size increases for generic open quantum systems. Nonetheless, our numerical results for spin
systems suggest that the perturbative expansion is an asymptotic expansion in the thermodynamic limit and theleading order of the perturbative series well describes the steady state if there is no stationary current of aconserved quantity. By combining this finding with the ETH, we can conclude that the steady state is given by
the Gibbs state, although the exact density matrix of the steady state is different from the Gibbs one. We finallydemonstrate that our theory is not applicable to transport phenomena, in which there is a stationary current in
the bulk, due to the failure of the perturbation theory.

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[2] M. Rigol, V. Dunjko, M. Olshanii, Nature 452 (2008) 854.
[3] T. Mori, T. N. Ikeda, E. Kaminishi, M. Ueda, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 51 (2018) 112001.
[4] T. Shirai, T. Mori, in preparation.
[5] H. C. Lemos, T. Prosen, Phys. Rev. E 95 (2017) 042137.

Mori, Takashi

Non-Markovian charge separation and system-reservoir correlation effect in heat transport
Akihito Kato
Institute for Molecular Science
Interaction of quantum systems with their surrounding environment causes dissipation, relaxation, and theloss of quantum coherences. Early studies on the dynamics of these open quantum systems are mostly focusedon the weak system–environment coupling regime, where the Markovian master equation has been often
employed for its description. Recent experimental studies, however, observed the quantum coherent signatureof the excitation energy transfer in photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes, and motivate us to develop thequantum dynamical theory beyond the weak coupling regime. These studies pointed out that the interplay
between the quantum coherent dynamics and the environmental noise optimizes the rate and/or the efficiencyof the transfer. In these intermediate and strong coupling regimes, the open quantum dynamics can be nonMarkovian and strong systemenvironment correlation can give rise to. These unexplored properties may
provide the novel phenomena and functions to be the design principles for the artificial quantum devices. Here,I will give two examples for such cases: Non-Markovian effect for the electron–hole separation in organic
photovoltaic systems [1] and the system– reservoir correlation effect in a model quantum heat engine [2].
Organic photovoltaic systems consist of the blend of donor–acceptor molecules and proceeds as follows:
Absorbed photon generates the exciton in the donor domain, which dissociate into the donor–acceptor interface.
Then, an electron transfer to the acceptor domain and the interfacial bound electron–hole state forms. Finally,
they separate into free careers and are extracted as photocurrent. Due to the strong electron–hole binding energy,
which is typically one order of magnitude larger than the thermal energy in room temperature, the interfacial
bound state seem to be stable. Therefore, elucidating the physical mechanism of the electron–hole separation is
the fascinating problem from the quantum dynamical point of view. We focused on the small polaron formationconsists of the charge and its surrounding phonons and revealed that the finite timescale, i.e. non-Markovianity,of the polaron formation enabled the combination of the fast forward charge separation via quantum
delocalization and subsequent backward slow charge recombination by the incoherent hopping. The resulting
dynamics maintains, especially for the slower formation case, the long-range charge separated states for a longtime.
Quantum heat engine is the paradigmatic model to investigate thermodynamic effects in small quantum
systems. Because we cannot take the thermodynamic limit in these systems, the system–reservoir couplings canbe strong, and therefore, theoretical description and computational methods for thermodynamic quantities in athermodynamically consistent manner beyond the conventional ones are required. By assuming that the firstand second laws hold in the same form with the macroscopic thermodynamic laws, we derive the general
reduced description of the heat current, which is valid for strong coupling regime and non-Markovian conditions,and develop the numerical method to evaluate the derived expression. We apply this method to three-level heatengine model and give the role played by the system–environmental correlation for the performance of thequantum heat engine.
References[1] A. Kato and A. Ishizaki, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121 (2018) 026001.
[2] A. Kato and Y. Tanimura, J. Chem. Phys. 145 (2016) 224105.

Control of quantum dynamics of electronic excitation transfer in condensed-phase molecularsystems under strong decoherence
Nguyen Thanh Phuc
Institute for Molecular Science
Manipulationof quantum systems is the basis for many promisingquantum technologies. However, howquantum mechanical principles can be used to manipulate the dynamics of quantum dissipative systems remains
unanswered because of strong decoherence effects arising from interaction with the surrounding environment.
In this talk, I will show that the electronic excitation transfer (EET), one of the most important processes inchemical and biological molecular systems, can be manipulated by using the Floquet engineering, in which theFranck-Condon transition energy is temporally modulated in a periodic manner. In particular, despite strongdephasing, the EET rate is found to be significantly enhanced [1], and the EET dynamics spontaneously breaks
the chiral symmetry of a molecular loop structure in a controllable fashion, followed by the generation of asteady-state electronic excitation current [2].

References[1] Nguyen Thanh Phuc, Akihito Ishizaki Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 9 (2018) 1243.
[2]

Nguyen Thanh Phuc, Akihito Ishizaki arXiv:1809.10362.

Friday, 9th

Invited talk
Heterodyne micro-focused Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy towards observation of
topological modes in magnonic crystals
Y. Nakata, S. Baba, R. Hisatomi, A. Gloppe, R. Shindou, Y. Nakamura, and K. Usami

Artificial crystals for spin waves are called magnonic crystals, and they are one of essential components forspin-wave controls [1].
Recently, the concept of topology was introduced to band structures of magnonic crystals, and the chiraledgemode formation at the boundary of a topological magnonic crystal is predicted [2-3].
However, nobody has experimentally observed such an exotic topological propagation in a magnonic crystal
yet, as far as we know.
The challenges are in the developments of a characterization method and a practical design of a topologicalmagnonic crystal.
To resolve the first problem, we propose a comprehensive heterodyne imaging method for magnons. Byutilizing the developed system, we experimentally realize phase-sensitive magnon imaging in
onedimensional dipolar magnonic crystals defined by metallic strips on a YIG film. To tackle the second
issue, we provide a feasible design of a topological magnonic crystal.
For this purpose, we formulate a magnonic tight-binding model composed of confined Damon-Eshbach
modes in a YIG film with metallic structures.
Referring to Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, we introduce staggered hopping to it.
We show that a topological number is defined for such a magnonic system, and numerically demonstrate thetopological-edge-mode formation at the interface between two regions with different topological numbers.
[1] A. V. Chumak et al., J. Phys. D. Appl. Phys. 50, 244001 (2017).
[2] R. Shindou et al., Phys. Rev. B 87, 174427 (2013).
[3] Y.-M. Li, J. Xiao, and K. Chang, Nano Lett. 18, 3032 (2018).

Nuclear spin polarization in a quantum point contact
1

Tomosuke Aono1, Peter Stano2,3, Minoru Kawamura2
Faculty of Engineering, Ibaraki University, 4-12-1 Nakanarusawa, Hitachi 316-8511, Japan
2
RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, Wako 351-0198, Japan
3
Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 84511 Bratislava, Slovakia

In a quantum point contact (QPC) system, the electron-electron interaction induces spin correlations of conduction
electrons. The correlations change the nuclear spin distribution near the QPC center. Recently the magnetization of
conduction electron is measured by the resistively detected NMR (RDNMR) [1]. In this work, we discuss the dynamical
nuclear spin polarization (DNP) due to the current through QPCs.
When an external magnetic field Bex is applied, the QPC potential is spin-dependent, described by an S-matrix throughthe QPC. The hyperfine interaction between conduction electrons and nuclei induces the spin flip-flop processes. The spinflip rate is calculated by the S-matrix via the Fermi’s golden rule. The value of the DNP, Iz, is determined by the rateequation for the nuclear spin [2,3].
Figure 1(a) shows the distribution of Iz for the conductance G = e2/h as a function of the coordinate x, where the centerof the QPC is located at x = 0. The black arrow indicates the direction of the current through the QPC. The DNP distributionchanges its sign at the QPC center; Iz < 0 for the upstream side of the QPC while Iz > 0 for the downstream side. This DNP
reverses its orientation when the direction of the current is reversed. The DNP distribution comes from the scattering
processes for conduction electrons and nuclear spins as shown in Fig. 1(b). When G = e2/h, only up spin electrons can passthrough the QPC. When an electron with the down spin that flips to the up spin before the transmission, it induces thedown DNP, while the electron flips its spin after the transmission, it induces the up DNP [3].
We discuss electron transport under the DNP structure in Fig. 1(a). The effective magnetic field B = Bex+BN is B >Bex
for Iz < 0 and B <Bex for Iz > 0, since the Overhauser field BN < 0 for Iz > 0. The conductance under the DNP is calculatedwith and without the NMR, denoted by G(NMR), and G(w/oNMR), respectively. It is shown that ∆G = G(NMR)−G(w/oNMR) is proportional to the shot noise and G > 0 for weak Coulomb interactions. When the Coulomb interaction is strong,∆G can change its sign [3]. We also discuss the RDNMR signal at a finite bias voltage, and find that the dipole-like DNP
leads to a ”dispersive” lineshape, where the signal changes its sign as a function of the NMR frequency [3].

Iz

(a)

x

(b)

electron spin

QPC
nuclear spinx

Figure 1: (a) Dipole-like DNP distribution; (b) Spin exchange between electrons and nuclear spins in (a)References[1] M. Kawamura, K. Ono, P. Stano, K. Kono, and T. Aono, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 036601 (2015).
[2] A. Singha, M. H. Fauzi, Y. Hirayama, and B. Muralidharan, Phys. Rev. B 95, 115416 (2017).
[3] P. Stano, T. Aono, and M. Kawamura, Phys. Rev. B 97, 075440 (2018).

Invited talk
Charge and Spin Dynamics in a Quantum Dot-Lead Hybrid System
T. Otsuka,1,2,3 T. Nakajima,2,3 M. R. Delbecq,2,3 P. Stano,2,4 S. Amaha,2 J. Yoneda,2,3 K. Takeda,2 G.
Allison,2 S. Li,2 A. Noiri,2,3 T. Ito,2,3 D. Loss,2,5 A. Ludwig,6 A. D. Wieck,6 and S. Tarucha2,3
1Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai
980-8577, Japan
2Center for Emergent Matter Science, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
3Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
4Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 845 11 Bratislava, Slovakia
5Department of Physics, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 82, 4056 Basel, Switzerland 6Angewandte
Festkörperphysik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
tomohiro.otsuka@riec.tohoku.ac.jp
The dynamics in open quantum systems attracts interest in basic science and applications for quantum
devices. To explore the physics of open quantum systems, semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) offer goodexperimental platforms because important parameters including the coupling to the environment can betuned electrically. Also, high-speed detection of charge and spin states in the QDs have been developed andestablished in the research field of spin quantum bits for quantum information processing [1]. Here, weapply the technique to a hybrid system that consists of a single quantum dot and an open electric reservoir.
We explore the charge and spin dynamics in the hybrid system.
The measured device is a GaAs/AlGaAs gate-defined double QD. A target QD is coupled to an open electricreservoir through a tunneling barrier, and the charge state is monitored by a nearby QD charge sensor. The
QD charge sensor is embedded in a high-frequency resonator for the high-speed measurement techniquecalled RF reflectometry [2]. Another ancillary QD is used to detect the target spin state by utilizing Paulispin blockade. We initialize the charge and spin states by utilizing singlet formation in the ancillary QD andtransfer the initialized electron into the target QD. Then, we monitor the change of the charge state in thetarget QD by the fast charge sensor and the spin state by the following spin blockade measurement.
We first measure the change of the charge and spin states around the charge transition, where the energy
level of the QD is close to the Fermi level of the reservoir. The charge and spin relaxations are observed
and their timescales are the same. From the detailed analysis of the charge state transition, the mechanizm
is revealed as a result of the first order tunneling process, in which the electron escapes and the charge andspin states are changed. When we increase the coupling between the target QD and the reservoir, weobserve spin relaxation signals even in a deep Coulomb blockade region, which is much faster than the
intrinsic spin relaxation time in a QD. The observed dynamics properties are different for the charge statesignal, indicating the second order process through intermediate states, in which only the spin state ismodified [3]. These results will be important in the exploration of further dynamics in quantum dot-lead
coupled systems and utilized for spin manipulations.
References[1] R. Hanson, et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 79, 1217 (2007).
[2] D. J. Reilly et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 162101 (2007). [3] T. Otsuka et al., Sci.
Rep. 7, 12201 (2017).

Invited talk
Quantum interferometry with a quantum dot
S. N. Shevchenko (1,2,3), K. Ono (4,5), T. Mori (6), S. Moriyama (7), Franco Nori (1,8)(1) Theoretical Quantum Physics Laboratory, Cluster for Pioneering Research, RIKEN, Wako-shi,
Saitama 351-0198, Japan(2) B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, Kharkov 61103, Ukraine(3) V. N. Karazin Kharkov National University, Kharkov 61022, Ukraine(4) Advanced device laboratory, RIKEN, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan(5) CEMS, RIKEN, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan(6) Nanoelectronics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science andTechnology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan(7) International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science(NIMS), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan and(8) Department of Physics, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1040, USA
Sensitive measurement techniques are based on the interference of waves. The most striking
illustration is the recent use of interferometry for the detection of gravitational waves. If in place ofclassical electromagnetic waves one can use the wave functions of quantum objects, such techniques
can be called quantum interferometry. We consider this interference applied to the example of adouble-quantum dot driven and modulated by microwaves and probed by a transport current [1].
Importantly, such a system can be useful as a high-temperature spin qubit [2]. Theoretically, suchdriven quantum system can be described in terms of consecutive transitions between energy levels,
known as Landau-Zener-Stuckelberg-Majorana interferometry [3]. In this talk, I will tell how the workof those four prominent physicists is important nowadays for both quantum dynamics and quantum
control of modern few-level systems.
[1] K. Ono, S. N. Shevchenko, T. Mori, S. Moriyama, and F. Nori, Quantum interferometry of ahightemperature single-spin qubit, arXiv:1809.02326.
[2] K. Ono, T. Mori, and S. Moriyama, High temperature operation of silicon qubit,
arXiv:1804.03364.
[3] S.N. Shevchenko, S. Ashhab, and F. Nori, Landau-Zener-Stueckelberg interferometry, Physics
Reports 492, 1-30 (2010)

Topological pumping in strongly interacting systems
Masaya Nakagawa
RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS)
Topological pumping is adiabatic quantum transport which pumps a quantized amount of charge reflecting
the topology of the ground-state wavefunctions over the time evolution. This phenomenon was discovered inseminal work in 1983 by Thouless [1], who showed that an adiabatic cycle of one-dimensional band insulators
induces such quantized charge pumping and pointed out its close connection to the quantum Hall effect. Despite
its significance, topological Thouless pumping had not been observed experimentally until recently. However,after almost 30 years from the original prediction by Thouless, the topological pumping was finally observedby using ultracold atoms in optical lattices [2, 3]. Since the interactions between ultracold atoms are highly
controllable, correlation effects on topological pumping can be significant in those systems, and even enable
us to realize interaction-induced pumping. In this presentation, I will address the following two fundamental
questions on topological pumping in strongly interacting systems:
Is topological pumping robust in strongly interacting systems?
Can interactions induce new topological pumping that cannot be realized in non-interacting
systems?
(i)(ii)

For (i), we show that a key to understanding of the stability of topological pumping against interactions isa crossover of topological phases from fermionic to bosonic ones [4]. We demonstrate that the topologicalpumping in Rice-Mele model with repulsive interactions breaks down in a strongly correlated regime, whereas
it is quite robust against attractive interactions. We explain the qualitative difference between the repulsive andattractive cases using symmetry protection of the topological phases. For (ii), we show that a quasi-onedimensional limit of various quantum Hall states gives a systematic construction of interaction-induced
topological pumping that cannot be realized in free fermion systems. Examples include fractional charge
pumping and intriguing “off-diagonal” topological pumping [5], which correspond to the fractional quantum
Hall effect and the bosonic integer quantum Hall effect, respectively. Furthermore, we show that the fractional
Thouless pumping realizes a discrete time crystal as a non-equilibrium phase of matter, which offers robust
charge transport even in nonadiabatic regimes[6].
References[1] D. J. Thouless, Phys. Rev. B 27, 6083 (1983).
[2]

S. Nakajima et al., Nat. Phys. 12, 296 (2016).

[3]

M. Lohse et al., Nat. Phys. 12, 350 (2016).

[4]

M. Nakagawa, T. Yoshida, R. Peters, and N. Kawakami, Phys. Rev. B 98, 115147 (2018).

[5]

M. Nakagawa and S. Furukawa, Phys. Rev. B 95, 165116 (2017).

[6]

K. Mizuta, K. Takasan, M. Nakagawa, and N. Kawakami, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 093001 (2018).

Invited talk
Exploring Mesocopic Physics with Atomtronics
Leong-Chuan Kwek
Center for Quantum Technologies,
National University of Singapore

Atomtronics is an emerging field in quantum technology that promises to realize ‘atomic circuit’architectures exploiting ultra-cold atoms manipulated in versatile micro-optical circuits generated
by laser fields of different shapes and intensities or micro-magnetic circuits known as atom chips.
Although devising new applications for computation and information transfer is a defining goal ofthefield, atomtronics wants to enlarge the scope of quantum simulators and to access new physical regimes
with novel fundamental science. In this talk, we survey the state of the art of atomtronics-enabledquantum technology. We also extend the scope of the existing atom-based quantum devices and todevise platforms for new routes to quantum technology.

LC Kwek is a Principal Investigator at the Center for Quantum Technologies, National
University of Singapore since its inception. He is also the Co-Director of the Quantum Engineering
Program of National Research Foundation in Singapore. He works on quantum information scienceand atomtronics and he has published more than 200 refereed papers on the subject. He is anelected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Instituteof Physics (UK) and the Institute of Physics (Singapore). He currently serves as a council memberof the Tan Kah Kee Foundation (Singapore) and IUPAP WG5 (Women in Physics). He is also an
editorial member of the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies Bulletin Board. LC Kwek
was a co-recipient of the Singapore National Science Award (Team) in 2006, the IPS Premier
Research award (2006) and the IPS President Medal (2016). He is also very active in the local
secondary school education system.

Invited talkCharacterization and modelling of quantum dynamics with memory effects
Bassano Vacchini
Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 16, I-20133 Milan, Italy`
INFN, Sezione di Milano, Via Celoria 16, I-20133 Milan, Italy
The study of open quantum systems has led to identify notions of quantum non-Markovian dynamics, whichhave recently been the object of quite intense research. Such dynamics should naturally provide a descriptionof memory effects in the quantum domain. We will provide a characterization of quantum non-Markovianity
making reference to mathematical properties of the time evolution map describing the reduced dynamics of theopen system [1, 2]. We will further discuss the general structure of evolution equations that can describe a nonMarkovian dynamics, thus going beyond the Lindblad result [3]. Applications and modelling of non-Markovian
dynamics will be considered, making reference in particular to collision models [4, 5].

References[1] H.-P. Breuer, E.-M. Laine, J. Piilo and B. Vacchini, Colloquium: Non-Markovian dynamics in open
quantum systems, Rev. Mod. Phys. 88, 2016 (021002)
H.-P. Breuer, G. Amato and B. Vacchini, Mixing-induced quantum non-Markovianity and information
flow, New J. Phys. 20, 2018 (043007)[2]

B. Vacchini, Generalized master equations leading to completely positive dynamics, Phys. Rev. Lett.
117, 2016 (230401)[3]

G. Guarnieri, C. Uchiyama and B. Vacchini, Energy backflow and non-Markovian dynamics, Phys.
Rev. A 93, 2016 (012118)[4]

S. Campbell, F. Ciccarello, G. M. Palma and B. Vacchini, System-environment correlations andMarkovian embedding of quantum non-Markovian dynamics Phys. Rev. A 98, 2018 (012142)[5]

Invited talk
Floquet Stroboboscopic divisibility in Non-Markovian Dynamics
V. M. Bastidas
NTT Basic Research Laboratories & Research Center for Theoretical Quantum Physics, 3-1 MorinosatoWakamiya, Atsugi, Kanagawa, 243-0198, JapanOne of the fundamental concepts in statistical mechanics is the notion of ergodicity, which is closely related
to the lack of memory of a system. In quantum mechanics, it is observed that the interactions redistribute theavailable energy and enable thermalization [1]. Under some conditions, however, an external drive can inhibit
ergodicity [3, 4, 5]. In this case, the system looses the ability to explore all the available states [6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
and keeps memory of the initial state. In this talk, I will discuss a model where ergodic behavior is broken due
to integrability. The reduced dynamics of such as system is given by a time-local master equation with timeperiodic rates. Due to the time-periodicity of the master equation, the dynamical map is divisible at discrete
times, which is referred to as Floquet stroboscopic divisibility [11]. I will illustrate general theory by studying
an oscillator coupled to both non-Markovian and Markovian baths. In this example, if one prepares the system
in a cat state, the environment induces stroboscopic revivals of the cat after its death. Our theory may haveprofound implications in entropy production in non-equilibrium systems.
(a)

(b)

(c)

Figure 1: Floquet Stroboscopic divisivility. (a) A mechanical analogue of the non-Markovian bath. (b)Reversible dynamics of the non-Markovian bath and (c) evolution of the Wigner function of a Schrodinger
cat[11].¨
References[1] M. Srednicki, Phys. Rev. E 50, 888 (1994).
[2] A. Lazarides, A. Das, and R. Moessner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 030402 (2015).
[3] S. Restrepo, J. Cerrillo, V. M. Bastidas, D. G. Angelakis, and T. Brandes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117,
250401 (2016).
[4] A. Eckardt, Rev. Mod. Phys. 89, 011004 (2017).
[5] V. M. Bastidas, B. Renoust, Kae Nemoto, W. J. Munro, arXiv:1807.00080 (2018).
[6] D. Basko, I. Aleiner, B. Altshuler, Ann. Phys. 321, 1126 (2006).
[7] R. Nandkishore, D. A. Huse, Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys. 6, 15 (2015).
[8] E. Altman, R. Vosk, Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys. 6, 383 (2015).
[9] M. Schreiber, S. S. Hodgman, P. Bordia, H. P. Lschen, M. H. Fischer, R. Vosk, E. Altman, U.
Schneider, I. Bloch, Science 349, 842 (2015).
[10]
P. Roushan, C. Neill, J. Tangpanitanon, V. M. Bastidas, A. Megrant, R. Barends, Y. Chen,
Z. Chen, B. Chiaro, A. Dunsworth, A. Fowler, B. Foxen, M. Giustina, E. Jeffrey, J. Kelly, E. Lucero, J.
Mutus,1 M. Neeley, C. Quintana, D. Sank, A. Vainsencher, J. Wenner, T. White, H. Neven, D. G.
Angelakis, J. Martinis, Science 358, 1175 (2017).
[11]
V. M. Bastidas, T. H. Kyaw, J. Tangpanitanon, G. Romero, L.-C. Kwek, D. G. Angelakis,
New J. Phys. 20, 093004 (2018).

Lower bounds for the mean dissipated heat in the spin-boson model
Kazunari Hashimoto, Chikako Uchiyama
University of Yamanashi
Bassano Vacchini
Universita degli Studi di Milano`

In 1961, Rolf Landauer linked information theory and thermodynamics by showing that erasing of classical bits ofmemory must be accompanied by an inevitable heat dissipation [1]. According to Landauer’s principle, the dissipated heatis bounded from below by heat proportional to the corresponding reduction of information.
In recent years, the principle has been reviewed from the quantum statistical point of view, and two different types ofquantum mechanical Landauer’s principle have been derived. The first one is referred to as the ‘entropic bound’ derived
by Reeb and Wolf by introducing an environment-aided quantum information erasure protocol equipping a relevant system(memory) attached to an environment [2]. It states that the mean value of the heat dissipates to the environment is boundedfrom below by corresponding reduction of von Neumann entropy of the relevant system:
β⟨∆Q⟩ ≥ ∆S.
(1)
The second one is referred to as the ‘thermodynamic bound’ derived by Goold by applying the Jensen inequality to the
exponentiated dissipated heat [3]:β⟨∆Q⟩ ≥ −ln⟨e−β∆Q⟩.

(2)Since these two bounds have different origins, their tightness against the mean dissipated heat have been studied by several
authors [3, 4]. So far, however, these comparative studies of the two bounds have been performed with finite environment
consists of one or few spins. In this talk, we will report our resent results of the comparative study of tightness of the twobounds performed in a spin-boson model consisting of a single spin (relevant system) attached to a large bosonicenvironment.

References[1] R. Landauer, IBM. J. Res. Dev. 5, 183(1961).
[2] D. Reeb and M. M. Wolf, New J. Phys. 16, 103011(2014).
[3] J. Goold, M. Paternostro, and K. Modi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 060602(2015).
[4] S. Campbell, G. Guarnieri, M. Paternostro, and B. Vacchini, Phys. Rev. A 96, 042109(2017).

Invited talk
Quantum and Information Thermodynamics, with and without factorized initial conditions
Massimiliano Esposito
University of Luxembourg

The nature of dissipation in open quantum system and its information-theoretic interpretation will be discussed. I will
first present an exact second law-like identity for an externally driven quantum systems interacting with a finite ”reservoir”,
i.e. another quantum system that is initially at equilibrium [1]. I will then consider various specific scenarios where thesystem dynamics can be described by a closed quantum master equation and formulate its corresponding second-law [2,3, 4]. All these schemes rely on the assumption of a factorized initial condition between system and reservoir. I will briefly
discuss possible ways to formulate Quantum Thermodynamics beyond this assumption [5, 6].

References[1] M. Esposito, K. Lindenberg and C. Van den Broeck, ”Entropy production as correlation between system andreservoir”, New J. Phys. 12, 013013 (2010).
[2] G. Bulnes Cuetara, M. Esposito and G. Schaller, ”Quantum Thermodynamics with Degenerate Eigenstate
Coherences”, Entropy 18, 447 (2016).
[3] F. Barra and M. Esposito, ”Dissipation in small systems: A Landau-Zener approach”, Phys. Rev. E 93, 062118(2016).
[4] P. Strasberg, G. Schaller, T. Brandes, M. Esposito, ”Quantum and Information Thermodynamics: A Unifying
Framework based on Repeated Interactions”, Phys. Rev. X 7, 021003 (2017).
[5] P. Strasberg and M. Esposito, ”Stochastic thermodynamics in the strong coupling regime: An unambiguous
approach based on coarse-graining”, Phys. Rev. E 95, 062101 (2017).
[6] P. Strasberg and M. Esposito, ”Non-Markovianity and negative entropy production rates”, arxiv:1806.09101.

Quantum energy transport under environmental engineering
Chikako Uchiyama
In this talk, I will present a possibility to control quantum energy transport with environmental engineering.
Recently, energy transport in the light harvesting molecules of photosynthetic bacteria has attracted muchattention because of its high efficiency[1,2]. To describe the efficiency, importance of the roleof environmental noise has been recognized to assist quantum transport[3], which is in contrast to theconventional thinking on the noise as an obstacle for transport.
While the research trend has been proceeding to mimic the biological system, my colleagues and myself
considered to propose a way to control quantum energy transport with applying noise[4]. Such change ofviewpoint enables us to enlarge the choice of the feature of noise: we considered to apply noise with spatialtemporal correlation on the sites. We found that the anti-spatial correlation and optimal temporal correlation
can greatly assist the energy transport.
In addition to the above topics, I would like to talk about a survey of the theoretical treatment on the open
quantum system for the quantum transport.
[1] R. E. Blankenship, Molecular Mechanisms of Photosynthesis, (Blackwell Science: Oxford/Malden, 2002).
[2] T. Brixner et. al., “Two-dimensional spectroscopy of electronic couplings in photosynthesis”, Nature
vol.434, 625 (2005).
[3] P. Rebentrost, M. Mohseni, I. Kassal, S.Lloyd, and A. Aspuru-Guzik, “Environment-assisted quantum
transport”,
New J. Phys. Vol.11, 033003 (2009).
[4] C. Uchiyama, W. J. Munro, and K. Nemoto, “Environmental engineering for quantum energy
transport”, npj Quantum Information vol.4, 33 (2018)