Name: Wigner 121 Scientific Symposium
Start: 2023-09-18T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-20T17:50:00+02:00
Location: Budapest

Wigner 121 Scientific Symposium

from Monday 18 September 2023 (08:00) to Wednesday 20 September 2023 (17:50)

Monday 18 September 2023
08:30 Wigner RCP: 10 years in E.P. Wigner's footsteps. - Péter Lévai (Wigner RCP)
Wigner RCP: 10 years in E.P. Wigner's footsteps.
- Péter Lévai (Wigner RCP)
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Star auditorium Star Auditorium
09:00 Wigner functions in quantum optics - Wolfgang Schleich (University of Ulm)
Wigner functions in quantum optics
- Wolfgang Schleich (University of Ulm)
09:00 - 09:40
Room: Star auditorium, chair: Sándor Varró The Wigner function [1] is a quantum mechanical distribution function and lives in phase space. It allows us to evaluate the expectation values of symmetrically ordered operators. Moreover, it is an extremely useful tool [2] to analyze phenomena at the interface of classical and quantum physics. In the present talk, we focus on three such topics: (i) The equivalence principle of general relativity viewed from quantum phase space [3], (ii) the Kasevich-Chu interferometer described by the Wigner function [4], and (iii) the connection between a logarithmic phase singularity, tunneling through a quadratic barrier [5], and Hawking radiation [6]. References: [1] E.P. Wigner, Phys Rev. 40, 749 (1932). [2] W.P. Schleich, Quantum Optics in Phase Space (Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2001). [3] E. Kajari et al., Appl. Phys. B 100, 43 (2010). [4] E. Giese et al., Proceedings of the International School of Physics ‘’Enrico Fermi’’ 188, 171 (2014). [5] D.M. Heim et al., Phys. Lett. A 377, 1822 (2013). [6] F. Ullinger et al., AVS Quantum Science, 4 (2022).
09:40 What is Space Weather and Why Should Hungary Care? - Tamás Gombosi (University of Michigan)
What is Space Weather and Why Should Hungary Care?
- Tamás Gombosi (University of Michigan)
09:40 - 10:20
Room: Star auditorium, chair: Sándor Varró A hundred years ago, the sun-Earth connection was of interest to only a small number of scientists. Solar activity had little effect on daily life. Today, a single strong solar eruption could bring civilization to its knees. Modern society has come to depend on technologies sensitive to solar radiation and geomagnetic storms. Particularly vulnerable are power grids, interplanetary robotic and human exploration, satellite operations and communications, and GPS navigation. These technologies are woven into the fabric of daily life, from health care and finance to basic utilities. This presentation will describe the basic processes controlling space weather together with observational, modeling and forecasting efforts.
10:20 Conference Photo, then Coffee break & Poster Session
Conference Photo, then Coffee break & Poster Session
10:20 - 11:00
Room: Jasmine room
11:00 Testing General Relativity with gravitational waves - Vitor Cardoso (Niels Bohr Institute)
Testing General Relativity with gravitational waves
- Vitor Cardoso (Niels Bohr Institute)
11:00 - 11:40
Room: Star auditorium, chair: Péter Lévai One of the most remarkable possibilities of General Relativity concerns gravitational collapse to black holes, leaving behind a geometry with light rings, ergoregions and horizons. These peculiarities are responsible for uniqueness properties and energy extraction mechanisms that turn black holes into ideal laboratories of strong gravity, of particle physics (yes!) and of possible quantum-gravity effects. I will review the status of black holes, in light of gravitational-wave observations in the last few years.
11:40 Attosecond science - future directions - Ferenc Krausz
Attosecond science - future directions
- Ferenc Krausz
11:40 - 12:20
Room: Star auditorium, chair: Péter Lévai Attosecond metrology emerged on the turn of the milleneum and enabled scientists to observe fundamental electronic processes in atoms, molecules, or solids in real time. Attosecond techniques now permit measurement of the oscillating electric field of light from the infrared to the ultraviolet. We will discuss how this unprecedented technical capability may help advance electronic signal processing towards its ultimate speed limit and allows sensing changes in the molecular composition of human blood, for health monitoring.
12:20 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:20 - 13:50
13:50
13:50 - 15:10
Room: Star auditorium
Contributions

13:50 Understanding the Quark-Gluon Plasma with ALICE at the LHC - Marco van Leeuwen (Nikhef)

14:30 Construction of a tracking detector for the future experimental exploration of particle interactions - Viktor Veszprémi (Wigner RCP)

14:50 Heavy-ion physics: present and future - Gergely Barnaföldi (Wigner RCP)
15:10 Coffee break & Poster Session
Coffee break & Poster Session
15:10 - 15:40
Room: Jasmine room
15:40
15:40 - 17:00
Room: Star auditorium
Contributions

15:40 Wigner time delays and the quest to control electron and spin correlations - Martin Schultze (TU Graz)

16:20 Ultrafast electron processes is solids - Péter Dombi (Wigner RCP)

16:40 Sensitive Raman spectroscopy - Miklós Veres (Wigner RCP)
17:00 Poster Session
Poster Session
17:00 - 18:00
Room: Jasmine room
Tuesday 19 September 2023
09:00
09:00 - 09:40
Room: Star auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Quantum Information National Laboratory - Péter Domokos (Wigner RCP)
09:40
09:40 - 10:20
Room: Star auditorium
Contributions

09:40 Microfluidic flow in single-layer dusty plasmas - Péter Hartmann (Wigner RCP)

10:00 Flow of elongated particles - Tamás Börzsönyi (Wigner RCP)
10:20 Coffee break & Poster Session
Coffee break & Poster Session
10:20 - 10:50
Room: Jasmine room
10:50
10:50 - 12:10
Room: Star auditorium
Contributions

10:50 N-Body Simulations and Cosmological Statistics. - István Szapudi (University of Hawaii)

11:30 Symmetries of spacetimes with a compact Cauchy horizon and the cosmic censor - István Rácz (Wigner RCP)

11:50 Inner structure of neutron stars - Péter Kovács (Wigner RCP)
12:10 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:10 - 13:50
13:50
13:50 - 15:10
Room: Star auditorium
Contributions

13:50 Hard x-ray spectrograph and anomalous soft modes in alpha-iron - Aleksandr Chumakov (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility)

14:30 Advances in the Investigation of FeRh Thin Films - Dániel Merkel (Wigner RCP)

14:50 Spin state studies with X-ray spectroscopy: From static to ultrafast - György Vankó (Wigner RCP)
15:10 Coffee break & Poster Session
Coffee break & Poster Session
15:10 - 15:40
Room: Jasmine room
15:40
15:40 - 17:00
Room: Star auditorium
Contributions

15:40 Detection of typical bipartite quantum correlations by local generalized measurements - Gernot Alber (Technical University of Darmstadt)

16:20 Nonlinear quantum dynamics and its potential applications in quantum information - Tamás Kiss (Wigner RCP)

16:40 Symmetries in Quantum Information Science - Adrián Solymos (Wigner RCP)
17:00 Examining the Nonlinear Response of Quantum Electrons with the Assistance of Wigner Distribution Function - Zhandos Moldabekov (Center for Advanced Systems Understanding at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
Examining the Nonlinear Response of Quantum Electrons with the Assistance of Wigner Distribution Function
- Zhandos Moldabekov (Center for Advanced Systems Understanding at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
17:00 - 17:40
Room: Star auditorium A linear response of quantum electrons is well studied and for that well developed theoretical and computational methods computing the linear response properties are available. However, recent introduction of THz lasers and the novel seeding technique to reach high intensities [1] allow us to generate nonlinear response of quantum electrons in extended systems. Therefore, in this talk the results will be presented for the non-linear density response of quantum electrons and the applicability of various approximations and methods for extended systems will be discussed [3-5]. The utility of the quantum Wigner distribution function for the analytic solution of the non-linear response problem of arbitrary order will be presented [5]. [1] B.K. Ofori-Okai, et al., J. Inst13, P06014 (2018). [2] T Kluge, et al., Phys. Rev. X 8, 031068 (2018). [3] Z. Moldabekov, Jan Vorberger, and Tobias Dornheim, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 18, 2900–2912 (2022). [4] T.Dornheim, M. Boehme, Z. Moldabekov, J. Vorberger, and M. Bonitz, Phys. Rev. Research 3, 033231 (2021). [5] P. Tolias, T. Dornheim, Z. Moldabekov, and J. Vorberger, EPL 142 , 44001 (2023).
Wednesday 20 September 2023
09:40
09:40 - 10:20
Room: Star auditorium
Contributions

09:40 Near-field infrared microscopy on carbon nanostructures - Katalin Kamarás (Wigner RCP)

10:00 Novel approaches in material science and ab initio quantum chemistry via massively parallel tensor network state methods on Hybrid CPU-GPU based HPC architectures - Őrs Legeza (Wigner RCP)
10:20 Coffee break & Poster Session
Coffee break & Poster Session
10:20 - 11:20
Room: Jasmine room
11:20
11:20 - 12:00
Room: Star auditorium
Contributions

11:20 Installation of the first Hungarian magnetically shielded room in Nagycenk - Géza Erdős (Wigner RCP)

11:40 Solar System research with space probes - Zsófia Bebesi (Wigner RCP)
12:10 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:10 - 13:50
13:50
13:50 - 15:10
Room: Star auditorium
Contributions

13:50 Ultracold Bose Gases in Driven-Dissipative Environments - Herwig Ott (Technical University of Kaiserslautern)

14:30 Photon-blockade breakdown as a first-order dissipative phase transition in zero dimension - András Vukics (Wigner RCP)

14:50 New approaches for quantum sensing with nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond - Anton Pershin (University of Oxford)
15:10 Coffee break & Poster Session
Coffee break & Poster Session
15:10 - 15:40
Room: Jasmine room
15:40 NAnoPlasmonic Laser Ignited Fusion Experiment
NAnoPlasmonic Laser Ignited Fusion Experiment
15:40 - 16:20
Room: Star auditorium
Contributions

15:40 NAnoPlasmonic Laser Ignited Fusion Experiment: a status report - Tamás Bíró (Wigner RCP)
16:20
16:20 - 17:00
Room: Star auditorium
Contributions

16:20 Physics Ideas in Artificial Intelligence - Antal Jakovác (Wigner RCP)

16:40 NeuroAI – How to harness Artificial Intelligence Research for understanding the brain - Gergő Orbán (Wigner RCP)