Scope

The symposium will be devoted to recent development of foundation as well as application of theory for quantum transport processes and related quantum non-equilibrium phenomena in nanoscale systems.
Subjects focused on include

• Non-equilibrium transport
• Quantum dynamics and quantum control
• Ultrafast optical processes
• Spintronics phenomena

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Invited lectures/speakers

• Amnon Aharony, Tel Aviv University & Ben Gurion University, Israel
  "Spin Orbit interactions, time reversal symmetry and spin filtering"
• Victor M. Bastidas, NTT, Japan
• Ora Entin-Wohlman, Tel Aviv University & Ben Gurion University, Israel
  "Enhanced performance of three-terminal thermoelectric devices"
• Massimiliano Esposito, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  "Quantum and Information Thermodynamics, with and without factorized initial condition”
• Shingo Katsumoto, ISSP, Univ. Tokyo, Japan
  "“Zitterbewegung” appeared as fluctuation in transport between quantum point contacts"
• Junichiro Kishine, The Open Univ., Japan
  "Soliton transport in chiral helimagnet"
• Leong-Chuan Kwek, National Univ. of Singapore
  "Exploring Mesoscopic Physics with Atomtronics"
• Michael V. Moskalet, Kharkov Polytechnical Institute, Uklaine
  “A few-electron system surfing in the Fermi sea”
• Yosuke Nakata, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
  "Heterodyne micro-focused Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy towards observation of topological modes in magnonic crystals"
• Tomohiro Otsuka, Research Institute of Electrical Communication Tohoku University, Japan
  "Charge and Spin Dynamics in a Quantum Dot-Lead Hybrid System"
• Takahiro Sagawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
  "Eigenstate thermalization and information scrambling in isolated quantum many-body systems"
• Sergey Shevchenko,B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering and V. N. Karazin Nat'l University
  "Quantum interferometry with a quantum dot"
• Yasuhiro Tokura, Univ. Tsukuba, Japan
  "Adiabatic and diabatic dynamics in quantum systems"
• Bassano Vacchini, Università degli Studi di Milano & INFN, Italy
  "Characterization and modelling of quantum dynamics with memory effects"
• Kaoru Yamamoto, NIMS, Japan
  "Efficiency bounds on thermoelectric transport in magnetic fields: the role of inelastic processes with a three-terminal junction"

Organizing committee

Chikako Uchiyama (Chair) (Univ. of Yamanashi)
Naomichi Hatano (Co-chair) (Univ. of Tokyo)
Gen Tatara (Co-chair) (RIKEN)
Kazunari Hashimoto (Secretary General) (Univ. of Yamanashi)

Financial support

• Kakenhi (a Grant-in-Aid for Exploratory Research (No.16K13853)), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
• RIKEN Center of Emergent Matter Science (CEMS)
• Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo