Preliminary Program
SEMINAR WEEK 1 (April 14 - 17)
SEMINAR WEEK 2 (April 20 - 24)
SEMINAR WEEK 3 (April 27 - May 01)
WORKSHOP WEEK (May 04 - 08) → Workshop Overview (pdf)
→ Please click on the title to the see the abstract (if available).
SEMINAR WEEK 1 (April 14 - 17)
| Tuesday, April 14 | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Martin Holthaus (University of Oldenburg) |
| The whys and hows of Bloch-Zener dynamics I | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Martin Holthaus (University of Oldenburg) |
| The whys and hows of Bloch-Zener dynamics I | |
| Wednesday, April 15 | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Martin Holthaus (University of Oldenburg) |
| The whys and hows of Bloch-Zener dynamics II | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 12:20 | Francesco S. Cataliotti (Università di Firenze) |
| Atom chips and photonic crystals | |
| Thursday, April 16 | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Martin Holthaus (University of Oldenburg) |
| The whys and hows of Bloch-Zener dynamics III | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Martin Holthaus (University of Oldenburg) |
| The whys and hows of Bloch-Zener dynamics III | |
| Friday, April 17 | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Martin Holthaus (University of Oldenburg) |
| The whys and hows of Bloch-Zener dynamics IV | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Martin Holthaus (University of Oldenburg) |
| The whys and hows of Bloch-Zener dynamics IV | |
SEMINAR WEEK 2 (April 20 - 24)
| Monday, April 20 | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Martin Weitz (University of Bonn) |
| Quantum transport of atoms in optical lattices of variable spatial symmetry | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 12:20 | Andrey Kolovsky (Kirensky Institute of Physics |
| and Siberian Federal University) | |
| Conductivity with cold atoms in optical lattices | |
| 16:30 | Visit of the Historical Green Vault |
| Tuesday, April 21 | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Round table discussion |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 12:20 | Round table discussion |
| Wednesday, April 22 | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Markus Oberthaler (University of Heidelberg) |
| Meanfield physics and beyond in double and few well systems | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 12:20 | Duncan O'Dell (McMaster University) |
| Bloch Oscillations of cold atoms inside an optical cavity: A proposal for ultra sensitive measurement of forces | |
| Thursday, April 23 | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Victor Malyshev (University of Groningen) |
| Towards a DNA-based tunable THz Bloch oscillator | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 12:20 | Ramaz Khomeriki (Tbilisi State University) |
| Instabilities and multiple stability in boundary driven pendula chain | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Andrey Kolovsky(Kirensky Institute of Physics and Siberian Federal University) |
| Metastable Wannier-Stark states and resonant tunneling | |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Coffee break |
| Friday, April 24 | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Ramaz Khomeriki (Tbilisi State University) |
| Linear, nonlinear and multiple Landau-Zener tunneling in optical directional coupler | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 12:20 | Stefano Ruffo (Università di Firenze) |
| Instabilities of driven nonlinear lattices I | |
SEMINAR WEEK 3 (April 27 - May 01)
| Monday, April 27 | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Dmitry Krimer (MPI PKS Dresden) |
| Impact of nonlinearity on Anderson localization and Bloch oscillations | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 12:20 | Leonid Manevitch (Russian Academy of Sciences) |
| Limiting phase trajectories and intensive energy exchange in oscillatory chains | |
| Tuesday, April 28 | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Leonid Manevitch (Russian Academy of Sciences) |
| From FPU to polymer chains: Effects of structural complexity | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 12:20 | Stefano Ruffo (Università di Firenze) |
| Instabilities of driven nonlinear lattices II | |
| Wednesday, April 29 | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Artur Ishkhanyan (Armenian Academy of Sciences, Ashtarak) |
| Beyond the Landau-Zener dynamics: Two distinct strong nonlinearity regimes in cold atom association | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 12:20 | Karl Renk (University of Regensburg) |
| Semiconductor superlattice oscillator for generation of millimeter waves | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Bernard Jusserand (Institut de Nanosciences Paris) |
| Acoustic phonons in multilayers and their coupling to light | |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Coffee break |
| Thursday, April 30 | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Gérald Bastard (Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain) |
| Optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Gérald Bastard (Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain) |
| Decoherence in semiconductor quantum dots | |
| Friday, May 01 | Public holiday |
| 17:00 | BBQ Party |
WORKSHOP WEEK (May 04 - 08)
→ Workshop Overview (pdf)
| Sunday, May 3 | |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Registration |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Welcome reception |
| Monday, May 4 | |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Jan-Michael Rost (Managing Director MPIPKS) & Scientific organizers |
| Opening | |
| Chairperson: Yuriy Kosevich | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Gérald Bastard (Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Paris) |
| Wannier - Stark localization and Bloch oscillations in semiconductor superlattices: A historical introduction | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Christophe Salomon (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Paris) |
| Bloch oscillations with cold atoms | |
| 10:20 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| Chairperson: Ennio Arimondo | |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | Fabio Beltram (Laboratorio NEST, Pisa) |
| Bloch oscillator and Zener tunnelling: A heterostructure perspective | |
| 11:40 - 12:20 | Mark Kasevich (Stanford University) |
| Quantum dynamics of cold atoms in 1D optical lattices | |
| 12:20 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Chairperson: Christophe Salomon | |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Sandro Stringari (Università di Trento) |
| Critical velocity and superfluid flow through single barrier and periodic potentials | |
| 14:40 - 15:20 | Ignacio Cirac (MPI for Quantum Optics) |
| Ultracold atoms and ions for quantum simulation | |
| 15:20 - 16:00 | Alexey Kavokin (Università di Roma II) |
| Photonic Bloch oscillations in multiple semiconductor microcavities | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| Chairperson: Jan-Michael Rost | |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | BOLZT09 Colloquium |
| Yuriy Kosevich (Institute of Chemical Physics, Moscow) | |
| Bloch acceleration theorem and Bloch oscillations in complex electronic, acoustic and magnetic systems | |
| 18:30 | Dinner |
| 19:30 | Poster Opening |
| Tuesday, May 5 | |
| Chairperson: Thomas Pertsch | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Gérald Bastard (Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Paris) |
| Transient THz emission by Bloch electrons in semiconductor superlattices | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Marc Dignam (Queen's University, Kingston) |
| Exact and approximate dynamic localization in electronic and photonic systems | |
| 10:20 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| Chairperson: Bernard Jusserand | |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | Francisco Domínguez-Adame (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) |
| Coherent phenomena in biased molecular aggregates | |
| 11:40 - 12:20 | Ulf Peschel (University Erlangen-Nürnberg) |
| Bloch oscillations in frequency space | |
| 12:20 - 12:40 | Felix Dreisow (University Jena) |
| Bloch-Zener tunneling in optical waveguide arrays | |
| 12:40 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Chairperson: Gérald Bastard | |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Martin Holthaus (University Oldenburg) |
| Avoided-level-crossing spectroscopy with dressed matter waves | |
| 14:40 - 15:20 | Hans-Jürgen Korsch (TU Kaiserslautern) |
| Bloch oscillations: From single particle Wannier-Stark resonances to Bose-Einstein condensates | |
| 15:20 - 16:00 | Bernard Jusserand (Institut de Nanosciences, Paris) |
| Acoustic phonon confinement: From nanocavities to acoustic molecules and Bloch oscillators | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| Chairperson: Mark Fromhold | |
| 16:30 - 17:10 | Guillaume Malpuech (Université Blaise Pascal) |
| Josephson effect for spinor cavity exciton-polaritons and application to chaotic cryptography | |
| 17:10 - 17:50 | Stefano Longhi (Politecnico di Milano) |
| Optical Bloch oscillations and Zener tunneling in photonic lattices: Classical and quantum facets | |
| 17:50 - 18:10 | Stefano Ruffo (Università di Firenze) |
| Landau-Zener tunnelling in waveguide arrays | |
| 18:10 - 18:30 | Omri Gat (Hebrew University Jerusalem) |
| Quasi-momentum and geometric phase interferometry with cold atoms | |
| 18:30 | Dinner |
| 19:30 | Posters |
| Wednesday, May 6 | |
| Chairperson: Martin Holthaus | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Andrey Kolovsky (Kirensky Institute of Physics, Krasnoyarsk) |
| Interplay between Anderson and Stark localization in 2D lattices | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Florian Mintert (University of Freiburg) |
| Bose-Hubbard dynamics and quantum chaos | |
| 10:20 - 10:30 | Group photo |
| (to be published on the conference website!) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| Chairperson: Francisco Domínguez-Adame | |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | Mark Fromhold (University of Nottingham) |
| Quantum transport of electrons and ultracold atoms above and within semiconductor microstructures | |
| 11:40 - 12:20 | Oliver Morsch (CNR-INFM, Pisa) |
| Time-resolved measurements of Landau-Zener tunnneling | |
| 12:20 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| afternoon | Excursion to Pillnitz Castle (see Social Events for more details) |
| evening | Conference dinner (see Social Events for more details) |
| Thursday, May 7 | |
| Chairperson: Karl Renk | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | S. James Allen (University of California, Santa Barbara) |
| Terahertz dynamics in semiconductor superlattices: Towards an oscillating Bloch oscillator | |
| 10:20 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| Chairperson: S. James Allen | |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | Andreas Wacker (Lund University) |
| Hierarchies of models for transport and gain in superlattices | |
| 11:40 - 12:20 | Timo Hyart (University of Oulu) |
| On the feasibility of Bloch gain in superlattices | |
| 12:20 - 12:40 | Volodymyr Gann (Kharkov Institute of Physics & Technology) |
| Bloch oscillations of a magnetic soliton and emission of a spin wave in a nonuniform magnetic field | |
| 12:40 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Chairperson: Andreas Wacker | |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Martin Weitz (Bonn University) |
| Directed transport of atoms in a Hamiltonian quantum ratchet | |
| 14:40 - 15:20 | Anton Desyatnikov (Australian National University, Canberra) |
| Experimental observation of interband tunneling in hexagonal photonic lattices | |
| 15:20 - 16:00 | Elena Diaz (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) |
| Dynamics of Bloch oscillations in Bose-Einstein condensates with time dependent interaction | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| Chairperson: Hans-Jürgen Korsch | |
| 16:30 - 17:10 | François Biraben (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Paris) |
| Precise measurement of h/m_Rb using Bloch oscillations and atom interferometry: Determination of the fine structure constant | |
| 17:10 - 17:50 | Artur Ishkhanyan (Armenian Academy of Sciences) |
| Landau-Zener transition in nonlinear quantum systems | |
| 17:50 - 18:10 | Kirill Alekseev (Loughborough University) |
| Parametric vs Bloch gain in a single energy band | |
| 18:10 - 18:30 | Leonid Manevitch (Institute of Chemical Physics, Moscow) |
| Limiting phase trajectories and nonlinear dynamics of Bloch oscillations with interaction and scattering | |
| 18:30 | Dinner |
| 19:30 | Posters |
| Friday, May 8 | |
| Chairperson: Marc Dignam | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Karl Renk (University of Regensburg) |
| Semiconductor superlattice parametric oscillator for generation of sub-terahertz and terahertz radiation | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Christoph Nägerl (University of Innsbruck) |
| Tunable quantum gases in optical lattices | |
| 10:20 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| Chairperson: Anton Desyatnikov | |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | Sandro Wimberger (Heidelberg University) |
| Many-body Landau-Zener tunnelling of ultracold atoms | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Manuel Valiente (Humboldt University Berlin) |
| Few-body dynamics in one-dimensional lattices | |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Closing remarks |
| 12:20 | Lunch |
Last update: 04/05/2009
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