YAO 2026 — Programme

YAO 2026 Programme

7–12 June 2026 · Crete, Greece

Sunday — 7 June

Monday — 8 June

Invited Speaker · 9:30

9:30

99 years of matter-wave interference: from foundations to applications

Dr. Dennis Schlippert

Institute of Quantum Optics, Leibniz Universität Hannover

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Contributed Talks I · 10:30–11:10

10:30

Portable laser system for atom interferometric gravimeters targeting inertial navigation applications

Maria Inês Faria Mendes

University of Birmingham

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10:50

Metasurfaces and Integrated Photonics for Trapped Ion and Neutral Atom Quantum Computing and Sensing

Phillip Cloud

University of Cambridge

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11:10

Coffee Break

Break

Contributed Talks II · 11:40–12:40

11:40

Lensing and enhanced single atom detection via a single-pixel nanostructure

Ling-Xiao Wang

University of Science and Technology of China

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12:00

Entanglement generation for a spin-squeezed atomic clock on a chip

Théo Sanchez

CNRS, Observatoire de Paris – PSL

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12:20

Squeezed light with optomechanical fibered cavities

Amin Lakhal

Sorbonne Universités – LKB

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12:40

Lunch Break

Lunch

Invited Speaker · 14:40

14:40

Spin-resolved microscopy of SU(N) Fermi-Hubbard systems

Prof. Leticia Tarruell

ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona

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15:40

Coffee Break

Break

Contributed Talks III · 16:10–17:10

16:10

Magneto-Optical Trapping of Aluminium Monofluoride

Priyansh Agarwal

Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society

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16:30

Quantum Li-Cr mixtures with tunable interactions

Beatrice Restivo

LENS, Università degli Studi di Firenze

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16:50

Ultracold polar molecules in optical tweezer arrays

Samuel Germer

Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bonn

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Tuesday — 9 June

Invited Speaker · 9:30

9:30

When Crystals Flow: The Emergence of Supersolid Quantum States

Prof. Francesca Ferlaino

University of Innsbruck / IQOQI

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Contributed Talks I · 10:30–11:10

10:30

Towards painting finite-range interactions in many-body cQED with a mesoscopic tweezer

Fabian Bennati Weis

ETH Zürich (group of Tilman Esslinger and Tobias Donner)

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10:50

Weak anti-localization in a dynamical spin-orbit coupled atomic BEC

Théo Mézières

University of Lille

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11:10

Coffee Break

Break

Contributed Talks II · 11:40–12:40

11:40

Measurement and feedback control of ultra-cold quantum gases

Kaiwen Zhu

The Australian National University

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12:00

Shielding of ultracold Lithium-6

Finn Lubenau

Physikalisches Institut, Heidelberg University

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12:20

Motional State Resolved Readout in Optical Tweezers

Tim Schiffer

Physikalisches Institut, Heidelberg University

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12:40

Lunch Break

Lunch

14:40

Equal Opportunities in Science

Gina Kleinsteinberg

Special

15:40

Coffee Break

Break

Contributed Talks III · 16:10–17:10

16:10

Towards a sub-wavelength array of single dysprosium atoms for collective light-scattering phenomena

Théo Dardier

Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire Charles Fabry

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16:30

Limits of mean-field models for light propagation: the refractive index of a dense and cold atomic cloud

Felipe Carvalho Brambila

Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar) – Brazil

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16:50

Stimulated emission at the single atom–single photon level

Sondos Elsehimy

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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17:10

Poster Session I

17:10 – 20:30

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Wednesday — 10 June

Invited Speaker · 9:30

9:30

Quantum physics beyond the low-complexity regime: In theory and on a quantum computer

Dr. Philippe Faist

Freie Universität Berlin

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Contributed Talks I · 10:30–11:10

10:30

Towards Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing using Neutral Atoms

Pauline Mathiot

PASQAL SAS

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10:50

Fidelity Relations in an Array of Neutral Atom Qubits

Rogier Venderbosch

Eindhoven University of Technology

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11:10

Coffee Break

Break

Contributed Talks II · 11:40–12:40

11:40

Exploring New Technologies for Neutral Atom Quantum Computing

Akhil Kumar

Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics

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12:00

Same-species sympathetic cooling of trapped ions

Emma Vandrey

University of Oxford

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12:20

Realization of an Optical Interface Between a Trapped Ion and a Levitated Nanoparticle

Tadeáš Volný

Palacky University Olomouc

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12:40

Lunch Break

Lunch

Thursday — 11 June

Invited Speaker · 9:30

9:30

Driven-dissipative quantum fluids of light

Prof. Marzena Szymańska

University College London

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Contributed Talks I · 10:30–11:10

10:30

Probing non-Abelian topological charges in the band structure of an optical kagome lattice of bosons

Georgios Xenikakis

University of Cambridge

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10:50

Single Strontium atoms trapped in optical tweezer arrays for quantum simulation

Veronica Giardini

University of Florence

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11:10

Coffee Break

Break

Contributed Talks II · 11:40–12:40

11:40

Out-of-Equilibrium Quantum Field Dynamics in Coherently-Coupled Superfluid Mixtures

Giacomo Guarda

University of Trento

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12:00

Quantum Vortex Pinning in a Dual-Species Bose-Einstein Condensate

Elizabeth Farr

University of Strathclyde

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12:20

False Vacuum Decay and Defect Formation in Nonequilibrium ultracold Bose-Bose mixtures

Arko Roy

IIT Mandi

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12:40

Lunch Break

Lunch

14:40

Industries Panel

IonQ · planQC · Precilasers · Toptica

Panel

15:40

Coffee Break

Break

Contributed Talks III · 16:10–17:10

16:10

Prolonging the lifetime of collective Rydberg excitations with use of spatial AC Stark shift

Bartosz Niewelt

University of Warsaw

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16:30

Clock Spectroscopy on the Ionic Core of Alkaline-Earth Circular Rydberg Atoms

Marius Thomas

5th Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart

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16:50

Kinetic frustration in doped magnets encoded with Rydberg atom arrays

Romain Martin

Laboratoire Charles Fabry

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17:10

Poster Session II

17:10 – 20:30

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Friday — 12 June

Invited Speaker · 9:30

9:30

Quantum Fluids of Light: from warm atomic vapors to cold Rydberg gases

Prof. Tom Bienaimé

Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Paris

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Contributed Talks I · 10:30–11:10

10:30

Toward Cavity-Enhanced Optically Pumped Magnetometry in a Microfabricated Cesium Vapor Cell

Cristina Sastre Jachimska

ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences

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10:50

Frequency Multi-mode State Generation Via Four-Wave Mixing in Hot Alkali Atoms

Théo Louzada Meireles

University of Sao Paulo / ICFO

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11:10

Coffee Break

Break

Contributed Talks II · 11:40–12:40

11:40

Non-Gaussian framework for multimode spin-boson models in the strong coupling regime

Gniewoj Michalewski

University of Warsaw

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12:00

Charged Polarons at Finite Momentum

Grover Andrade

Instituto de Física, UNAM

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12:20

Canonically consistent quantum master equation for proton-transfer reactions

Zahra Sartipi

University of Potsdam, Institute of Physics and Astronomy

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12:40

Lunch Break

Lunch

Contributed Talks III · 14:40–15:40

14:40

Progress toward a Lithium-based quantum gas microscope

Ruijia Li

University of Strathclyde

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15:00

Developing a quantum gas microscope with programmable lattices

Saumya Amit Shah

Institute of Science and Technology Austria

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15:20

Wide-field microscopy of Sr atoms in optical lattices

Arnab Maity

Université Paris-Saclay, Institut d’Optique Graduate School

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15:40

Coffee Break

Break

Contributed Talks IV · 16:10–17:10

16:10

Infrared absorption spectroscopy of a single trapped polyatomic molecular ion

Tim Duka

Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck

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16:30

Towards new approaches of electromagnetic field sensing using cold Rydberg atoms

Anthony El Bekai

DPHY, ONERA, Université Paris-Saclay

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16:50

Carrier-Resolved Spectroscopy of the Strontium Clock Transition in Programmable Tweezer Arrays

Thomas Leitch

Durham University

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17:10

Closing Remarks

End of YAO 2026

Closing