Quantum International Frontiers 2018, October 17-21 2018,
Changsha, Hunan Province, P.R. China.

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The Quantum International Frontiers 2018 conference has now concluded. Quantum International Frontiers 2019 will be held at the International Center for Quantum and Molecular Structures (ICQMS), Shanghai University, Shanghai, P.R. China.

About Quantum International Frontiers 2018

Quantum International Frontiers 2018 will include sessions on:

• Quantum Modelling for Energy Conversion and Storage
• Relativistic Effects for Quantum Chemistry
• Spectroscopy, Molecular Structure and Dynamics
• Plasmas and Particles in Chemistry and Physics
• Catalysis, Reactive Collisions and Chemical Reactions
• Surfaces and Interfaces of Complexes and Clusters
• Molecular and Nano-materials for Electronics
• Quantum Effects and Applications
• Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields
• Developments in Theoretical Concepts in Quantum Chemistry

Traditional and non-traditional lecture formats will be implemented in this conference.

1. Invited lecture: 30 minutes (25 minutes talk, 5 minutes for questions)
• Lucas Visscher: Implementation and Applications of Relativistic Coupled Cluster Theory
• Jeffrey R. Reimers: Ab initio corrections for density-functional theory energies of excited states of defects in 2D materials
• Samantha Jenkins: Next Generation QTAIM
• Sergei Manzhos: Rectangular collocation for electronic Schrödinger equation
• Jian Liu: Trajectory-Based Approaches for Quantum Statistics and Quantum Dynamics
• Xiong-Jun Liu: Non-equilibrium classification of topological quantum phases
• Yu-Xi Liu: Nonlinear quantum optical phenomena in three-level superconducting quantum circuits
• Chao-Hong Lee: Topological states in periodically modulated systems
• Hai-Tao Quan: Path Integral Approach to Work in Quantum Thermodynamics
• Ming-Xing Chen: Effects of magnetic dopants and interface oxygen vacancies in FeSe-based superconductors
• Wei-Tao Liu: Second-Order Correlation in Time Domain and Its Applications
• Ping-Xing Chen: Scalable ion-based quantum information processing
• Zhi-Hui Peng: Resonance Fluorescence from an Artificial Atom Strongly Coupled to a Cavity
• Qiong Chen: Hyperpolarization with NV centers in diamond
• Jie-Ci Wang: Quantum coherence and steering in relativistic settings
• Mustafa Eginligil: Light polarization sensitive 2D materials and hybrid structures
• Jie-Qiao Liao:Generalized Ultrastrong Optomechanics
• Jian Li: Longitudinally modulated superconducting transmon qubit


2. Pedagogical lecture: 45 minutes: The lecture material (PPTs, PDF) must be at a level suitable for final year undergraduate students and the audience may interrupt the speakers. There should be no jargon or unexplained acronyms. Limited numbers of slots available.
• Martin Quack: Fundamental Symmetries and their Violations in Molecular Quantum Physics
• Marco Nascimento: The Consequences of Neglecting Permutation Symmetry in the Description of Many-Electron Systems
• Frank Harris: Methods for Working with Space-Spin Eigenfunctions in Open-Shell Systems
• Malgorzata Biczysko: Nuclear quantum effects in vibrational and electronic spectra: the role of band positions and transition intensities
• T. Daniel Crawford: The Mysteries of Chirality, Solvation, and Optical Activity
• Yasuteru Shigeta: QM/MM analysis of metalloenzymes and beyond
• Nawee Kungwan: Proton Transfer in the Excited State: Photophysics of Chromophores, Fluorescent Probes and Luminescent Materials
• Thanyada Rungrotmongkol: Atomic-level insight into biological processes of molecular recognition, protein dynamics and catalytic origin of enzyme catalysis
• Paul W. Ayers: New Flexible Wavefunction Forms for Quantum Chemistry and Physics


3. Frontier lecture: 60 minutes: 30 minutes invited talk immediately followed by 30 minutes of audience discussion. The lecture material should be of a pedagogic level and submitted by August 1st 2018 for distribution to the Q.I. Frontiers audience. Limited numbers of slots available.
• Akitomo Tachibana: Quantum Mechanics: 100 Years of Mystery Solved! (Click title for downloadable PDF)
• Piotr Piecuch: Toward Exact Quantum Chemistry: Accurate Electronic Energies by Stochastic Wave Function Sampling and Deterministic Coupled-Cluster Computations (Click title for downloadable PDF)
• Xin-Hua Peng: Experimental quantum simulations towards exotic many-body quantum physics with nuclear spins (Click title for downloadable PDF)

Posters

• Stefano Fabris: Modelling the Effects of Chemical Environments on Supported Catalysts
• Xing Shanghua: The Influence of Chemical Substituents on Linker Rotational Behaviors in Pillar-layered MOFs by Computational Study
• Zizhen Rao: Tacticity Prediction of Poly(methyl methacrylate) from Radical Polymerization via Red Moon Methodology
• Freda Jean Mwasha: Excited states of squaraines via linear and non-linear electronic absorption
• Ya-Ju Song: Controlling Decoherence Speed Limit of a Single Impurity Atom in a Bose-Einstein-Condensate Bath
• Likun Yang: The Lithium Dimer Cation as a Probe for Attosecond Spectroscopy
• Haitao Quan: Path Integral Approach to Work in Quantum Thermodynamics
• Musen Li: Easy Ways Towards to the Proper Van der Waals attraction in 2D Systems
• Hongli Zhang: The Role of Dispersion and Anharmonic Corrections in Conformational Analysis of Flexible Molecules
• Yanting Xu: Quantum-based refinement of biomacromolecules: the Q|R route
• Chong Shu: Accurate determination of energies and molecular structures for isolated small peptides
• Mingzhu Sheng: Investigation of the hydrogen bonding in serine: a computational spectroscopy study
• Mohamed Amin Ibrahim: Identification of Amino-Acids Conformers by Vibrational Fingerprints
• Xinxing Li: Simulation of fluorescent dyes optical properties
• Yafeng Jiao: Nonlinear optomechanics with gain and loss: amplifying higher-order sideband and group delay
• Pavlo Golub: Neural Network Fitted Kinetic Energy Densities of Different Classes of Materials
• Tianlv Xu: Consequences for Stereochemistry of Locating the Chirality-Helicity Equivalence in the S and R Stereoisomers of Lactic Acid
• Tianlv Xu: Exploration of Azophenonine Switches with QTAIM and the Stress Tensor
• Roya Momen: The Role of Weak Interactions in Characterizing Peptide Folding Preferences Using a QTAIM Interpretation of the Ramachandran Plot (ϕ-ψ)
• Roya Momen: Exploration of the Forbidden Regions of the Ramachandran Plot (ϕ-ψ) with QTAIM
• Alireza Azizi: A Vector-Based Representation of the Chemical Bond for Predicting Competitive and Non-Competitive Torquoselectivity of Thermal Ring-Opening Reactions
• Alireza Azizi: Non-Nuclear Attractors in Small Charged Lithium Clusters, Limq (m = 2-5, q = ±1), with QTAIM and the Ehrenfest Force Partitioning
• Tian Tian: Next-Generation Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules for the Ground and Excited State of the Ring-Opening of Cyclohexadiene (CHD)
• Xin Bin: Next-Generation Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules for the Ground and Excited States of the Penta-2,4-dieniminium Cation (PSB3)
• Jiahui Li: Consequences of Theory Level Choice Evaluated with New Tools from QTAIM and the Stress Tensor for a Dipeptide Conformer
• Jiahui Li: A Vector-Based Representation of the Chemical Bond for the Substituted Torsion of Biphenyl
• Jiahui Li: Stress Tensor Eigenvector Following with Next-Generation Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules
• Weijie Huang: Next-Generation Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules for the Ground and Excited States of Fulvene
• Weijie Huang: QTAIM and Stress Tensor Bond-path Framework Sets for the Ground and Excited States of Fulvene
• Weijie Huang: The 3-D Bonding Morphology of the Infra-Red Active Normal Modes of Benzene
• Weijie Huang: A Vector-Based Representation of the Chemical Bond for the Normal Modes of Benzene
• Cao Zhou: Amorphous Co-Pi anchored on TiO2/CdSe nanowire arrays for efficient photoelectrochemical hydrogen production
• Jiansheng Dong: The effect of alloying on the band engineering of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides
• Lijuan Hu: Concurrence of Two Atoms in a Rectangular Waveguide: Linear Approximation
• Yafeng Jiao: Nonlinear optomechanics with gain and loss: amplifying higher-order sideband and group delay
• Chao Kong: Controlling chaotic spin-motion entanglement of ultracold atoms via spin-orbit coupling
• Dengao Lai: Simultaneous cooling of coupled mechanical resonators in cavity optomechanics
• Xiaolong Li: Soft X-ray activated NaYF4: Gd/Tb scintillating nanorods for in vivo dual-modal X-ray/X-ray induced optical bioimaging
• Zhen Li: Collapse and revival of quantum entanglement in a microscopic-macroscopic system consisting of two Rydberg impurities and a Bose-Einstein condensate
• Shan Liu: Symmetrical metallic and magnetic edge states of monolayer 1T-PtX2(X=S、Se)
• Xiaobao Liu: Relativistic motion enhanced quantum estimation of κ-deformation of spacetime
• Yanjun Liu: Fringe visibility and distinguishability in two-path interferometer with an asymmetric beam splitter
• Wangjun Lu: Nonlinear Dicke Quantum Phase Transition and Its Quantum Witness in a Cavity-Bose–Einstein-Condensate System
• Yi Ren: Negative Poisson's ratio in monolayer blue phosphorene nanoribbon with edge sulfur passivation
• Lijuan Sheng: Sensitivity enhanced refractive index sensor by reducing the influence of in-plane wavevector in photonic spin Hall effect
• Zhenluan Xue: Non-invasive through-skull brain vascular imaging and small tumor diagnosis based on NIR-II emissive lanthanide nanoprobes beyond 1500 nm
• Ao Zhang: Effect of In doping on the topological surface states of Bi2Se3
• Liang Zhang: Geometrical effect of thermal conductivity in 2D silicon flms with periodic nanopores
• Zhe Zhang: Band Modulation of Black Phosphorus and Molybdenum Disulfide Van Der Waals Heterojunction: Twist and Electric Field Effects
• Zhuang Zhao: Strong exciton-photon coupling in solution grown CsPbBr3 micro/nanowires
• Qi Zheng: Surface polarons and optical micro-cavity modulated broad range multi-mode emission of Te-doped CdS nanowires
• Heyu Zhu: The preferred slip plane of nuclear material of Hafnium: A first-principles study
• Fen Zou: Photon blockade effect in a coupled cavity system

Important Deadlines

• Deadline 1: 2018/04/30 Early bird registration - see below.
• Deadline 2: 2018/09/20 Late registration - see below.
• Deadline 3: 2018/09/20 Abstract submission deadline.

Mark up your calendars!

(For the interested non-Chinese reader: the red and black shapes in the header logo together form the Simplified Chinese character meaning 'start'. The inclusion of the ruby is to signify the 80th anniversary of Hunan Normal University).

Quantum International Frontiers 2018 will be hosted by the College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, the Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Structures and Quantum Control of the Ministry of Education and the Synergetic Innovation Center for Quantum Effects and Applications (SICQEA), Hunan Normal University.

QI Frontiers 2018 will be located in Changsha, capital city of Hunan Province.

Information

Info:

• Helpers: Conference helpers may be found at the conference itself, the airport and the high-speed railway station.

• If you are not a Chinese speaker, you may find it useful to download and install a translator app on a portable device (Android/iOS, etc.), e.g. Microsoft Translator, before entering China. Most translator apps allow you to download and install 'offline translation dictionaries' - these are highly recommended and very useful, because they will work even without a phone data connection or Internet connection. Some of these apps have text recognition features, allowing you to point your device camera at some text and get an instant translation. Others also have voice recognition features. It is generally also a good idea to install a Chinese keyboard (input method IME) on your device alongside your existing language keyboard: this could make it easier for Chinese speakers to type any replies to queries or information into the translator app.

• In any files used for presentations, please make sure the files are saved with embedded fonts. This helps to reduce problems associated with required mathematical/non-English characters not being present on the computer used for the presentation.

Accommodation:

• Changsha Accomodation (Venue)

  We have booked a block of rooms in the venue hotel (Fenglin Hotel, website). Delegates can pay on arrival unless otherwise arranged. The hotel accepts Visa and MasterCard credit cards.

  All the lectures and the banquet will also take place at this hotel.

  We will reserve two room types (both types have ensuite WC and shower) :

  • ROOM OPTION A: 488RMB/day (includes breakfast). Floors 11 and 12, 33 sq.m. Desk + chairs + bath tub [There are 9 such king-bed rooms, the others are twin-bed (bed width 1.2m)].
  • ROOM OPTION B: 348RMB/day (includes breakfast). Floors 1-4, 32 sq.m, chairs [There are 9 such king-bed rooms, the others are twin-bed (bed width 1.2m)].

  Breakfast is included with the room booking, and is served at the breakfast restaurant on the ground floor of the Fenglin Hotel. Lunch/Dinner buffet will be provided free of charge (your conference bag will contain the necessary tickets) and will be served in the ballroom on the second floor.

  Please send ALL of the following information by email to Tianlü xutl@hunnu.edu.cn:

  1. Your full name *exactly* as it appears on your passport
  2. Your Passport number
  3. Your flight number or train number when you have booked
  4. Your arrival date
  5. Your departure date
  6. Your choice of room; OPTION A or OPTION B.

Yuelu Mountain and Yuelu Academy

Explore the trails, paths and temples of this popular location, or visit Yuelu Academy, one of the four ancient seats of learning in China. Further information in English (1,2,3,4) and in Chinese here.

Juzhizhou (Orange Island)

Walk or go one metro stop to Orange Island, with ornamental gardens, pavilions and the Young Mao Zedong statue.

Hunan Provincial Museum

(click picture for official website, available in Chinese(Simplified and Traditional), English, French and Korean)

Activities

On October 22 and 23 there will be a trip to the World Heritage site at Zhangjiajie. Participation in this trip is entirely voluntary. Let us know ASAP if you want to take part, and which of the two options for the tour that you prefer.

There are two different versions of the trip: please see the information in the PDF files for prices and event details.

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Trip 1 details (click here for PDF)

Trip 2 details (click here for PDF)