Workshop on Correlations and Coherence in Quantum Systems
Évora, Portugal, 8-12 October 2012

Scientific Program
Monday, 8 October
09:00 Welcome
09:10 – 9:40 Invited: Hans-Peter Büchler
Anomalous behavior of spin systems with dipolar interactions
09:40 – 10:10 Invited: Marcos Rigol
Dynamics and description after relaxation of disordered quantum systems after a sudden
quench10:10 – 10:30 Contributed: Marcus Cramer
Thermalization under randomized local Hamiltonians
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Invited: Jun-Peng Cao
Exactly solvable models in the cold atomic systems
11:30 – 12:00 Invited: Johannes Hecker-Denschlag
A trapped ionic impurity in a sea of ultracold neutral atoms
12:00 – 12:20 Contributed: Gergely Szirmai
Spin liquid phases of alkaline earth atoms at finite temperatures
12:20 Lunch break
15:00 – 15:30 Invited: Pedro Schlottmann
Phase separation and FFLO phases in ultra-cold gas of fermionic atoms with attractive
potential in a one-dimensional trap
15:30 – 16:00 Invited: Giovanni Modugno
Disordered ultracold bosons in one dimension
16:00 – 16:30 Invited: Masaki Tezuka
Dynamics of interacting fermions on a bichromatic optical lattice
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 17:30 Invited: Yusuke Nishida
Efimov effect in quantum magnets
17:30 – 17:45 In memorian by Daniel Arovas
Adilet Imambekov
17:45 – 18:00 In memorian by Pedro Sacramento
Zlatko Tesanovic

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Tuesday, 9 October
09:00 – 09:30 Invited: Jorge Dukelsky
Integrable pairing models in mesoscopic physics
09:30 – 10:00 Invited: Emil Yuzbashyan
Quantum integrability in systems with finite number of levels
10:00 – 10:20 Contributed: Alexandre Faribault
Decoherence in the central spin model
10:20 – 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 – 11:20 Invited: Monique Combescot
BEC-BCS crossover in an excitonic system
11:20 – 11:40 Contributed: Pedro Ribeiro
Superconductivity in nanostructures
11:40 -12:20 Invited: Jan Zaanen
Quantum criticality, superconductivity and the AdS/CFT correspondence
12:20 – 15:00 Lunch break
15:00 – 15:30 Invited: Nicolas Garcia
Graphite is a narrow band semiconductor
15:30 – 16:00 Invited: Pablo Esquinazi
Evidence for superconductivity at graphite interfaces
16:00 – 16:30 Invited: Pedro Sacramento
Anomalous Hall effect in superconductors with spin-orbit interaction
16:30 – 16:50 Coffee break
16:50 – 17:25 Poster presentations (2 minutes each)
17:25 Poster session I2

Wednesday, 10 October
09:00 – 9:30 Invited: Amir CaldeiraCats, decoherence and quantum measurement
09:30 – 10:00 Invited: Karlo Penc
Long-range ordering in SU(3) and SU(4) Heisenberg models
10:00 – 10:30 Invited: Carlo Di Castro
Ferronematic order in underdoped cuprates
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:40 Invited: Anders Sandvik
Exploring quantum fluctuations and quantum phase transitions in spin models
11:40 – 12:40 Invited: Patricia Conde Muiño(Multidisciplinary Colloquium): Overview of recent Higgs searches results
12:40 Lunch break
14:30 Bus excursion to megalithic monuments about 6 000 years old.
20:00 Banquet *Restaurant Fanatismo
Praça do Giraldo, 69
7000-872 Évora* For the young workshop participants who were awarded a grant the banquet will be for free. For theremaining participants, a partial contribution of 7:50 Euros is requested. Please, pick up your banquet
ticket at the workshop secretariat.

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Thursday, 11 October
09:00 – 09:30 Invited: Henrik Johannesson
Electrical control of the Kondo effect in a helical edge liquid
09:30 – 10:00 Invited: Kai Chang
Quantum transport in topological edge states
10:00 - 10:20 Contributed: Eduardo V. Castro
Topological phases driven by electron interactions in certain two-dimensional lattices
10:20 – 10:40 Contributed: Dmitri Ivanov
Phase transitions in full counting statistic
10:40 – 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 – 11:30 Contributed: Edina Szirmai
Exotic magnetic orders for high spin ultracold fermions
11:30 – 12:00 Invited: Jian-Qiang You
Quantum open system in a fermionic bath: A quantum trajectory approach
12:00 – 12:20 Contributed: Daniel Arovas
Visibility of the amplitude (Higgs) mode in condensed matter
12:20 – 15:00 Lunch break
15:00 – 15:30 Invited: André A. Pasa
Determination of the spin diffusion length in silicon at low temperatures
15:30 – 16:00 Invited: Chang-Qin Wu
A quantum entanglement induced effect: Magneto-mobility in organic semiconductors
16:00 – 16:20 Coffee break
16:20 – 16:50 Invited: Sandro Sorella
Recent advances in the numerical simulation of the Hubbard model
16:50 – 17:10 Contributed: Enrico Arrigoni
Variational cluster approach for correlated many-body systems out of equilibrium
17:10 - Poster session II4

Friday, 12 October
09:00 – 09:40 Invited: Gora Shlyapnikov
Novel macroscopic quantum states in dipolar systems
09:40 – 10:00 Contributed: Nikola Paunković
Fidelity spectrum and characterization of different phases of quantum systems
10:00 – 10:20 Contributed: Xi Chen
Shortcuts to adiabaticity: Theory and application
10:20 – 10:40 Contributed: Fabrizio Illuminati
Factorization, frustration and entanglement order parameters in complex quantum systems
10:40 – 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 – 11:40 Invited: Zhi‐Guo Wang
Artificial acoustic atom and crystal
11:40 – 12:20 Invited: Paolo Zanardi
Quantum entanglement for typical and less typical states
12:20 Summary and closing remarks

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