22nd Central European Workshop on Quantum Optics
6-10 July 2015, Warsaw, Poland

About

The conference series started in early 1990s in Central Europe and transformed during more than 20 years into one of most popular annual meetings of European scientists interested in quantum optics and quantum information. Organized every year in another location, the conference has travelled across the continent.

Main topics:

  • Fundamental aspects of quantum optics including the Casimir effect
  • Quantum correlations - entanglement, non-locality and causality
  • Non-classical states, quantum tomography
  • Open quantum systems
  • Optical angular momentum and quantum polarization
  • Quantum information processing
  • Quantum communications
  • Cavity and circuit QED
  • Quantum optics with neutrons, atoms, molecules
  • Quantum optics in condensed matter systems

Important dates:

  • Submission deadline: 20 March 2015 until 23:59 GMT
  • Acceptance notification: 20 April 2015

Contact: cewqo2015-at-fuw-dot-edu-dot-pl

The workshop will be preceded by 14th International Conference on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations taking place in Gdansk on 29 June - 3 July 2015.

Organization

Programme Committee:

  • Michaly Benedict (Szeged, Hungary)
  • Janos Bergou (New York, USA)
  • Gunnar Björk (Stockholm, Sweden)
  • Mirjana Božić (Belgrade, Serbia)
  • Vladimir Buzek (Bratislava, Slovakia)
  • Tommaso Calarco (Ulm, Germany)
  • Nicolas Cerf (Brussels, Belgium)
  • Jean Dalibard (Paris, France)
  • Berthold-Georg Englert (Singapore)
  • Jaromir Fiurasek (Olomouc, Czech Republic)
  • Philippe Grangier (Paris, France)
  • Aurelian Isar (Bucharest Romania)
  • Evgueni Karpov (Brussels, Belgium)
  • Natalia Korolkova (St Andrews, Scotland, UK)
  • Margarita Man’ko (Moscow, Russia)
  • Paulina Marian (Bucharest, Romania)
  • Paolo Mataloni (Rome, Italy)
  • Antonino Messina (Palermo, Italy)
  • Jan Mostowski (Warsaw, Poland)
  • Saverio Pascazio (Bari, Italy)
  • Margaret Reid (Melbourne, Australia)
  • Gerhard Rempe (Munich, Germany)
  • Luis Lorenzo Sánchez Soto (Madrid, Spain)
  • Kalle-Antti Suominen (Turku, Finland)
  • Ryszard Tanas (Poznań, Poland)
  • Juan P. Torres (Barcelona, Spain)
  • Nikolai Vitanov (Sofia, Bulgaria)
  • Sascha Wallentowitz (Santiago, Chile)
  • Ian A. Walmsley (Oxford, UK)
  • Anton Zeilinger (Vienna, Austria)

Organizing Committee:

  • Konrad Banaszek (University of Warsaw)
  • Dariusz Chruściński (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)
  • Ewa Kaszewska (Aleksander Jabłoński Foundation)
  • Marek Kuś (Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)
  • Lidia Tańska (University of Warsaw)
  • Marcin Zwierz (University of Warsaw)

Invited speakers

  • Antonio Acin (Barcelona, Spain)
  • Ulrik Lund Andersen (Lyngby, Denmark)
  • Marco Barbieri (Rome, Italy)
  • Giovanni Barontini (Paris, France)
  • Karol Bartkiewicz (Poznań, Poland)
  • Dagmar Bruss (Düsseldorf, Germany)
  • Octavio Castaños (Mexico City, Mexico)
  • Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański (Warsaw, Poland)
  • Piotr Deuar (Warsaw, Poland)
  • Paolo Facchi (Bari, Italy)
  • Radim Filip (Olomouc, Czech Republic)
  • Péter Földi (Szeged, Hungary)
  • Nikolai Kiesel (Vienna, Austria)
  • Sergei Kilin (Minsk, Belarus)
  • Loïc Lanco (Paris, France)
  • Christoph Marquardt (Erlangen, Germany)
  • Simone Montangero (Ulm, Germany)
  • Joshua Nunn (Oxford, UK)
  • Miles Padgett (Glasgow, UK)
  • Matteo Paris (Milan, Italy)
  • Mauro Paternostro (Belfast, UK)
  • Stephan Ritter (Munich, Germany)
  • Roman Schnabel (Hamburg, Germany)
  • Jacob Sherson (Aarhus, Denmark)
  • Philipp Treutlein (Basel, Switzerland)
  • Howard Wiseman (Brisbane, Australia)
  • Christof Wunderlich (Siegen, Germany)

Public lecture

  • Anton Zeilinger (Vienna, Austria)

Programme

Monday July 6, 2015

8:45 - 9:00
Conference opening
9:00 - 10:30
Plenary lectures - Chairperson: Margarita Man'ko
9:00 - 9:45
Paolo Facchi
Quantum Computing in Plato's Cave
9:45 - 10:30
Nikolai Kiesel
Levitated Cavity Optomechanics
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30
Plenary lectures - Chairperson: Giovanni Barontini
11:00 - 11:45
Stephan Ritter
Quantum science based on cavity-assisted atom-photon interactions
11:45 - 12:30
Jacob Sherson
Probing and controlling ultra-cold matter with light
12:30 - 14:15
Lunch and poster session
14:15 - 15:45
Plenary lectures - Chairperson: Ryszard Tanas
14:15 - 15:00
Christof Wunderlich
Toolbox for Microwave-driven Quantum Logic with Trapped Ions
15:00 - 15:45
Octavio Castaños
Variational approach to the ground state of n-level atoms interacting with l modes of an electromagnetic field
15:45 - 16:15
Coffee break
16:15 - 18:00
Sessions
Quantum simulations - Chairperson: Piotr Deuar
Quantum optics I - Chairperson: Paolo Facchi
Quantum information - Chairperson: Dagmar Bruss
16:15 - 16:30
Tomasz Sowiński
Pairing in a system of a few ultra-cold attractive fermions in a harmonic trap
Karel Lemr
Experimental implementation of optimal linear-optical controlled-unitary gates
Evgueni Karpov
Optimal environment for quantum bosonic Gaussian channels
16:30 - 16:45
Alejandro González-Tudela
Atoms trapped within Photonic Crystals: using quantum optics to simulate coherent and dissipative many-body physics
Maria Bondani
Super-thermal photon-number statistics in second-harmonic generation
Dariusz Chruściński
On admissible memory kernels for random unitary qubit evolution
16:45 - 17:00
Martin Stefanak
Percolation assisted excitation transport in discrete-time quantum walks on a ring
Ferenc Bódog
Optimization of periodic single-photon sources based on combined multiplexing
Vladimir Man'ko
Information-Entropic Inequalities for Density Matrices and Possibilities of Their Verification
17:00 - 17:15
Carlo Di Franco
Novel approach for the implementation of quantum walks in linear-optics setups
Gunnar Björk
Maximally unpolarized, pure, quantum states
Göktuğ Karpat
Controlling entropic uncertainty bounds through memory effects
17:15 - 17:30
Erez Zohar
Quantum Simulation of Lattice Gauge Theories with Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices
Jinwoo Park
Efficient noiseless amplification for light fields with larger amplitudes
Alexander Streltsov
Measuring quantum coherence with entanglement
17:30 - 17:45
Peter Drummond
Quantum simulations of the early universe with cold atoms
Dalibor Javůrek
Generation of photon pairs in a periodically-poled ring fiber using spontaneous parametric down-conversion
Sándor Varró
Regular phase operator and a new number–phase Weyl–Wigner correspondence for the photon
17:45 - 18:00
İskender Yalçınkaya
Two-dimensional discrete-time quantum walk under magnetic field
András Dombi
Bistability effect in the extreme strong coupling regime of the Jaynes-Cummings model
Andreas Ruschhaupt
Shortcuts to Adiabaticity and Optimization of their Stability
18:00 - 20:00
Welcome drink

Tuesday July 7, 2015

9:00 - 10:30
Plenary lectures - Chairperson: Nikolai Kiesel
9:00 - 9:45
Antonio Acín
Optical setups for device-independent quantum key distribution
9:45 - 10:30
Marco Barbieri
Quantum metrology: what about the measurements?
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30
Plenary lectures - Chairperson: Vladimir Man'ko
11:00 - 11:45
Miles Padgett
Ghost-microscopy: Visible light imaging using infrared illumination
11:45 - 12:30
Matteo Paris
Characterization of classical fluctuating fields by quantum probes
12:30 - 14:15
Lunch and poster session
14:15 - 15:45
Plenary lectures - Chairperson: Octavio Castaños
14:15 - 15:00
Simone Montangero
Simulation and control of complex quantum systems
15:00 - 15:45
Péter Földi
Light-induced ultrafast photoemission and conductance phenomena in nanoscale systems
15:45 - 16:15
Coffee break
16:15 - 18:00
Sessions
Quantum protocols - Chairperson: Marco Barbieri
Continuous variables - Chairperson: Jacob Sherson
Quantum entanglement - Chairperson: Antonio Acín
16:15 - 16:30
Jaromir Fiurasek
Quantum controlled-Z gate for weakly interacting qubits
Kimin Park
Optical hybrid entangler by superposing two Gaussian operations
Alexey Tiranov
Micro-macro entanglement between light and matter
16:30 - 16:45
Barış Çakmak
Protecting the √ SWAP  operation from general and residual errors by continuous dynamical decoupling
Alexander Ulanov
Continuous Variable Entanglement Distillation by means of Noiseless Linear Amplification
Anaelle Hertz
Gaussianity-dependant separability criterion for continuous-variable systems
16:45 - 17:00
Piotr Frąckiewicz
A new quantum scheme for normal form games
Ievgen Arkhipov
Comparative study of nonclassicality, entanglement, and dimensionality of multimode noisy twin beams
Callum Croal
The entangling power of a beamsplitter
17:00 - 17:15
Mayukh Lahiri
Controlling Degree of Polarization of Light by Interferometric Path Information
Michael G. Jabbour
Interconversion of pure Gaussian states requiring non-Gaussian operations
Mehul Malik
A three-particle, three-dimensonal GHZ state using twisted photons
17:15 - 17:30
Piotr Kolenderski
Towards correcting atmospheric turbulence via pump control in a down conversion process
Enrico Brambilla
Temporal properties of counter-propagating twin beams in a Mirrorless Optical Parametric Oscillator
Daniela Schulze
Efficient iterative entanglement distillation without quantum memory
17:30 - 17:45
Antonio Di Lorenzo
Deterministic entanglement of photons through postselection based feedback
Alessia Allevi
Near-to-far-field evolution of twin beams
Bryan Dalton
Entanglement and Spin Squeezing in Systems of Identical Bosons
17:45 - 18:00

Paulina Marian
A distance-type measure of Gaussian EPR-steering
Maria Anastasia Jivulescu
Thresholds for entanglement criteria in quantum information theory

Wednesday July 8, 2015

9:00 - 10:30
Plenary lectures - Chairperson: Gunnar Björk
9:00 - 9:45
Roman Schnabel
Implementation of Quantum Key Distribution with Composable Security Against Coherent Attacks using Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement
9:45 - 10:30
Dagmar Bruss
Detecting Entanglement of Unknown Quantum States with Random Measurements
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30
Plenary lectures - Chairperson: Matteo Paris
11:00 - 11:45
Christoph Marquardt
Quantum Optics in Vectorial Modes
11:45 - 12:30
Karol Bartkiewicz
Priority choice two-qubit tomography
12:30 - 14:15
Lunch and poster session
15:00 - 18:00
Museum tours
19:00 - 21:00
Anton Zeilinger
Quantum Teleportation, Entanglement, and Einstein’s Question “What is Light”?

Thursday July 9, 2015

9:00 - 10:30
Plenary lectures - Chairperson: Roman Schnabel
9:00 - 9:45
Ulrik Lund Andersen
Squeezed and coherent state based quantum key distribution
9:45 - 10:30
Radim Filip
Robust quantum entanglement and interfaces with noisy systems
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30
Plenary lectures - Chairperson: Christof Wunderlich
11:00 - 11:45
Loïc Lanco
Interfacing light and matter down to the single photon level
11:45 - 12:30
Mauro Paternostro
Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of quantum processes
12:30 - 14:15
Lunch and poster session
14:15 - 15:45
Plenary lectures - Chairperson: Stephan Ritter
14:15 - 15:00
Giovanni Barontini
Creating entanglement in an ensemble of 40 atoms using quantum feedback and quantum Zeno dynamics in a fiber cavity
15:00 - 15:45
Piotr Deuar
Single shot phenomena in quantum atom optics
15:45 - 16:15
Coffee break
16:15 - 18:00
Sessions
Hybrid systems - Chairperson: Mauro Paternostro
Quantum metrology - Chairperson: Loïc Lanco
Quantum correlations - Chairperson: Karol Bartkiewicz
16:15 - 16:30
Marco Genoni
Quantum cooling and squeezing of a levitating nanosphere via time-continuous measurements
Marcin Jarzyna
True precision limits in quantum metrology
Margarita Man'ko
Single-Qudit Quantum Correlations as a Resource for Information Technologies
16:30 - 16:45
Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch
Degenerate parametric oscillation in membrane cavity optomechanics
Jan Gniesmer
Quantum metrology with frequency up-converted squeezed vacuum states
Aurelian Isar
Gaussian quantum discord and classical correlations of two bosonic modes in thermal environments
16:45 - 17:00
Matteo Scala
Matter-Wave Interferometry of a Levitated Nanodiamond Induced and Probed by a Spin
Michał Jachura
Restoring quantum enhancement in realistic two-photon interferometry
Andrei Klimov
Localization versus Gaussianity in the measurement space
17:00 - 17:15
Darren Moore
State Reconstruction of an Oscillator Network in an Optomechanical Setting
Robert Sewell
Ultra-sensitive quantum nonlinear interferometer
Oscar Rosas-Ortiz
Measuring quantum correlations of two qubits coupled to photon baths in terms of population inversion
17:15 - 17:30
Peter Drummond
Scalable quantum simulation of pulsed entanglement and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering in optomechanics
Marcin Zwierz
Measuring temperature with light
Alejandro González-Tudela
Unraveling open quantum system dynamics with time and frequency resolved photon correlations
17:30 - 17:45
Matthew Woolley
Photon-assisted tunnelling with nonclassical light
Paul Knott
Squeezed-entangled states significantly enhance precision in optical quantum metrology
Sascha Wallentowitz
Classical and quantum correlations in the dynamics of donor-based charge qubits
17:45 - 18:00
Piroska Dömötör
Scattering of rotating molecules through an aperture: a simple quantum mechanical model
Marcin Markiewicz
From quantum metrological precision bounds to quantum computation speed-up limits
Peter Sinkovicz
Quantized recurrence time in iterated open quantum dynamics
19:00 -
Conference dinner

Friday July 10, 2015

9:00 - 10:30
Plenary lectures - Chairperson: Evgueni Karpov
9:00 - 9:45
Howard Wiseman
What is Quantum non-Markovianity?
9:45 - 10:30
Philipp Treutlein
Detection of non-locality in a Bose-Einstein condensate
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30
Plenary lectures - Chairperson: Philipp Treutlein
11:00 - 11:45
Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański
Using entanglement against noise in quantum metrology
11:45 - 12:30
Joshua Nunn
Bad Cavities for Good Memories: Storing Broadband Photons with Low Noise
12:30 - 14:15
Lunch and poster session
14:15 - 15:00
Plenary lectures - Chairperson: Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański
14:15 - 15:00
Sergei Kilin
The NV diamond mastering: from the HFI flip-flop free cites to a fiber probe technique
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 - 17:00
Sessions
Atomic coherence - Chairperson: Joshua Nunn
Quantum optics II - Chairperson: Christoph Marquardt
Quantum foundations - Chairperson:Howard Wiseman
15:30 - 15:45
Radosław Chrapkiewicz
High-capacity, warm atomic memory operating at a single-photon-level storing up 120 spatial modes
Vlasta Perinova
The Garrison-Wong phase operator and the rotational invariance of phase states
Michal Oszmaniec
Creation of superposition of unknown quantum states
15:45 - 16:00
Robert Sewell
Macroscopic spin singlet generated via quantum non-demolition measurement
Jan Perina
Coherence and dimensionality of intense spatio-spectral twin beams
Felipe Fanchini
Non-Markovianity and the flow of information
16:00 - 16:15
Michał Dąbrowski
From four-wave mixing to Hamiltonian engineering in readout proccess of Raman memory
Karolina Słowik
Engineering quantum states of light with optical nanoantennas
Serban Suciu
Gaussian discord of two-mode systems in a thermal environment from a geometric perspective
16:15 - 16:30
Jan Kołodyński
Improved Quantum Magnetometry beyond the Standard Quantum Limit
Eduardo Nahmad-Achar
Properties of 3-Level Systems: the triple phase transition, and critical exponents
Agata Chęcińska
Communication between general-relativistic observers without a shared reference frame
16:30 - 16:45
Michał Parniak
Interfacing atoms and light coupled to excited transitions in warm rubidium vapors
Ramón López-Peña
Entangled coherent states for the description of the interaction of matter and radiation
Sacha Schwarz
Experimental Violation of Multisetting Bell Inequalities for Qudits using Energy-Time Entangled Photons
16:45 - 17:00
Yuuki Tokunaga
A photonic controlled-phase gate by passive use of a Λ system
Wiesław Leoński
Three-mode nonlinear state truncation – squeezing, quantum correlations and entanglement
Grzegorz Łach
Enhancement of Casimir Friction due to the Finite Lifetime of Atomic Levels
17:00 - 17:15
Conference closing

Poster list

1
Niharika Singh
Quantum Jump Approach in a Lambda System with a Close Lying Excited Level
2
Jakob Hinney, Christoph Clausen, Adarsh Prasad, Philipp Schneeweiß, Jürgen Volz and Arno Rauschenbeutel
Towards Nanofiber-Based Quantum Networks
3
Antonin Cernoch, Karol Bartkiewicz, Karel Lemr and Adam Miranowicz
Experimental comparison of several tomographic protocols
4
Evgenii Glushkov, Anastasiia Glushkova and Vladimir Man'ko
On Testing Entropic Inequalities for Superconducting Qudit
5
Takeo Kamizawa, Andrzej Jamiołkowski and Grzegorz Pastuszak
On the Integrability of Some Quantum Control Systems
6
Yue Chang, Alejandro González-Tudela, Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch, Carlos Sánchez Muñoz and Tao Shi
Deterministic generation of photon pairs within the bad cavity limit
7
Elena Zhebrak
A method to calculate Franck-Condon factors in terms of the tomographic probability representation
8
Tao Shi and Ignacio Cirac
Multi-Photon Scattering Theory and Generalized Master Equation
9
Roman Puzko and Vladimir Man'ko
Inequalities of Nonlinearly Tansformed X-states
10
Tatiana Mihaescu and Aurelian Isar
Generation of Gaussian quantum discord of two coupled bosonic modes in a thermal environment
11
Michał Ławniczak, Małgorzata Białous, Vitalii Yunko, Szymon Bauch and Leszek Sirko
Study of the elastic enhancement factor and nearest neighbor spacing distribution for partially chaotic and chaotic systems
12
Michał Ławniczak, Szymon Bauch, Vitalii Yunko, Małgorzata Białous and Leszek Sirko
Study of power spectra of integrable and chaotic systems
13
Joanna K. Kalaga, Wiesław Leoński and Anna Kowalewska-Kudłaszyk
Recurrence plots and entropy for the Wigner-function nonclassicality evolution as witnesses of quantum chaotic dynamics of nonlinear Kerr-like oscillator model
14
David Ziemkiewicz and Sylwia Zielińska - Raczyńska
Cherenkov radiation in negative index media under EIT conditions
15
Paulina Grochowska and Sylwia Zielińska - Raczyńska
Control field absorption in superluminal propagation
16
Ashot Avanesov and Vladimir Man'ko
Study of unitary transform for subadditivity condition
17
Artur Czerwiński
New Developments in the Stroboscopic Tomography
18
Aleksandra Klimek, Wojciech Wasilewski and Konrad Banaszek
Superadditive quantum-memory receiver for classical communication
19
Malgorzata Paprzycka and Adam Miranowicz
State-dependent photon blockade via quantum-reservoir engineering
20
Artur Barasiński and Wiesław Leoński
Qutrit entanglement dynamics of cold spin-1 bosons trapped in optical triple-well potential
21
Adam Rutkowski, Michał Studziński, Piotr Ćwikliński and Michał Horodecki
Construction and properties of a class of private states in arbitrary dimensions
22
Evgeny Kiktenko, Aleksey Fedorov, Alexey Strakhov and Vladimir Man’ko
Quantum computation via multilevel superconducting circuit
23
Daniel Z. Rossatto and Celso J. Villas-Boas
Method for preparing two-atom entangled states in circuit QED and probing it via quantum nondemolition measurements
24
Ho-Joon Kim, Su-Yong Lee, Se-Wan Ji and Hyunchul Nha
Noiseless optical amplifier with coherent photon operation
25
Kaloyan Zlatanov
Exact solution of the optical Bloch equation for the Demkov model
26
Iva Bezdekova, Martin Stefanak and Igor Jex
Limit distributions for quantum walks on a line with Wigner rotation matrices
27
Jiri Svozilik, Jan Peřina Jr. and Juan P. Torres
Tailored Anderson localization with partially coherent light
28
Vladimir Andreev, Milena Davidovic, Ljubica Davidovic, Milos Davidovic and Dragomir Davidovic
Density matrices of scaled Husimi functions and some of their characteristic features
29
Anita Dąbrowska and John Gough
Belavkin Filtering with Squeezed Light Sources
30
Maxime Jacquet and Friedrich Koenig
Quantum vacuum emission from a moving refractive index front
31
Jiří Maryška, Jaroslav Novotný and Igor Jex
Dominant couplings in qubit networks with controlled interactions
32
Aleksey Fedorov, Evgeny Kiktenko, Olga Man'Ko and Vladimir Man'ko
Tomographic discord and information asymmetry in two-qubit X-states
33
Nicolae Enaki, Vlad Koroli and Sergiu Bazgan
Jaynes-Cummings model of a pair of two-level atoms with dipole interaction
34
Craig Hamilton, Regina Kruse, Linda Sansoni, Sebastian Brauner, Raimund Ricken, Igor Jex and Christine Silberhorn
A single non-linear directional coupler to generate N00N states
35
Patrycja Jabłonska and Piotr Kolenderski
Solving Pauli problem for a photon spatial wave function
36
Marta Pałucka and Piotr Kolenderski
A single photon source for long distance quantum communication
37
Grzegorz Chimczak
Protocol for mapping of a V-type atom state onto cavity field state
38
Milena Davidović and Mirjana Božić
The influence of polarization and phase shift on the average photon trajectories behind two slits
39
Antonino Messina, Dariusz Chruściński, Benedetto Militello and Anna Napoli
IFE states under time dependent Hamiltonians
40
Krzysztof Kaczmarek, Michael Sprague, Ian Walmsley and Joshua Nunn
Light storage in Cesium-filled hollow-core fibres
41
Paul Knott, James Cooling, Anthony Hayes, Timothy Proctor and Jacob Dunningham
Squeezed-entangled states in optical quantum metrology
42
D. Tielas, Marta Reboiro and Osvaldo Civitarese
Time dependent Spin observables of impurities in a quantum corral
43
Pierrot Musumbu Dibwe, Maria Przybylska and Andrzej J. Maciejewski
Thermalization in many-particle quantum walks
44
Anna Kowalewska-Kudłaszyk, Wiesław Leoński and Dung Thi Nguyen
Photon blockade effect and entanglement evolution in a kicked Kerr-type coupler model
45
Marco Enríquez and Oscar Rosas-Ortiz
Controlling the collapse and revival dynamics of a qubit in quantized anharmonic radiation fields
46
Sara Cruz Y Cruz and Zulema Gress
Factorization method, radial oscillators and Laguerre-Gaussian modes
47
Nicolae Enaki and Sergiu Bazgan
Symmetry of packing geometry of doped cavities and its influence on entangled states of excitations

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