Mesoscopic physics in the era of quantum computing

25 May 2026, 09:00 → 30 May 2026, 19:00 Europe/Rome

Castello dei Principi Capano

The workshop will bring together experimentalists and theorists to discuss the current landscape of ideas, open problems, and opportunities at the intersection of mesoscopic physics and quantum computation and information.

The workshop will take place May 25-30, 2026 in the medieval town of Pollica, in Southwestern Italy (Cilento region). 

Participants include

Carlo Beenakker (Leiden University)

Anasua Chatterjee (TU Delft)

Michel Devoret (UCSB, Yale & Google Quant. AI)

Gleb Finkelstein (Duke University)

Marcelo Goffman (CEA Saclay)

Andrew Higginbotham (U. Chicago)

Manuel Houzet (U. Grenoble Alpes)

Philip Kim (Harvard)

Vladimir Manucharyan (EPFL)

Charles Marcus (U. Washington & Niels Bohr I.)

Elisabetta Paladino (U. Catania)

Wolfgang Pfaff (UIUC)

Ady Stern (Weizmann)

Felix von Oppen (Berlin)

 

Scientific and organizing committee

L. Glazman (Yale U.)

B. van Heck (Sapienza U.)

A. Kou (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

J. Meyer (U. Grenoble Alpes)

 

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Monday 25 May

09:30 → 10:15 Welcome

10:15 → 11:00 Carles Marcus - Quantum Meets Complexity

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:15 Wolfgang Pfaff - Probing and controlling spins with superconducting quantum circuits

12:15 → 13:00 Marcel Franz - Topology and persistent spin currents in superconducting altermagnets

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:15 Anasua Chatterjee - Discussion on Germanium-based devices

Tuesday 26 May

09:30 → 10:15 Carlo Beenakker - Monitored quantum transport: full counting statistics of chiral interferometers

10:15 → 11:00 Gleb Finkelstein - Observation of Chiral Andreev bound states in graphene

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:15 Inanc Adagideli - Manipulating the topological spin of Majoranas

12:15 → 13:00 Valla Fatemi - Seeking disruptive ideas for quantum information with mesoscopic superconducting systems

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:15 Philip Kim - Manipulation and Detection of Anyon Quasiparticles in Quantum Materials

Wednesday 27 May

09:30 → 10:15 Vladimir Manucharyan - Spectroscopy of one- and two-particle excitations in "mesoscopic” chains of superconducting qubits

10:15 → 11:00 Andrew Higginbotham - Mesoscopic Josephson array with permutation symmetry: a lattice-gauge building block

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:15 Uri Vool - Hybrid circuits with unconventional van der Waals superconductors

12:15 → 13:00 Elisabetta Paladino - Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics with two-dimensional material-based Josephson Junctions

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:15 Michel Devoret - TBA

19:30 → 22:00 Social dinner

Thursday 28 May

09:30 → 10:15 Marcelo Goffman - Spectroscopy of a Nanowire-Based Fluxonium: Exploring Fermionic-Bosonic Hybridization

10:15 → 11:00 Julien Basset - Photoelectric detection of single microwave photons in a granular aluminum high impedance quantum circuit

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:15 Wolfgang Belzig - Topology in Multiterminal Josephson Junctions

12:15 → 13:00 Jelena Klinovaja - Nonlinear effects in semiconductor nanostructures

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:15 Felix von Oppen - Theory of the quantum twisting microscope

Friday 29 May

09:30 → 10:15 Manuel Houzet - Bloch Diode

10:15 → 11:00 Szabolsc Csonka - TBA

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:15 Alexander Shnirman - Emergence of multiple zero modes bound to vortices in extended topological Josephson junctions

12:15 → 13:00 Ady Stern - Phase transitions in the half filled Chern band OR Some observations regarding quantum geometry

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch