Pitaevskii Center on Bose-Einstein Condensation

Principal investigators: Alberto Biella, Iacopo Carusotto, Gianluca Rastelli.

Postdocs: Stephanie Matern

PhD students: Otto Schmidt, Alberto Tabarelli de Fatis

Main research field:

• QUANTUM FLUIDS OF LIGHT
• TOPOLOGICAL PHASES OF MATTER
• THEORY OF PHOTONIC SYSTEMS

PhD theses:

• Francesco Piccioli (2023, cosupervision with U. Rostock, Germany), Topological photonics in guided wave geometries
• Alberto Nardin (2023), Linear and nonlinear edge dynamics and quasiparticle excitations in fractional quantum Hall systems
• Claudia De Lazzari (2022, cosupervision with Mathematics Dept.), Algebraic, geometric and numerical methods for Tensor Network Varieties
• Matteo Seclí (2021, cosupervision with SISSA), Topology and Nonlinearity in Driven-Dissipative Photonic Lattices: Semiclassical and Quantum Approaches
• Elia Macaluso (2020), Probing Quasihole and Edge Excitations of Atomic and Photonic Fractional Quantum Hall Systems
• José Lebreuilly (2017), Strongly correlated quantum fluids and effective thermalization in non-Markovian driven-dissipative photonic systems
• Grazia Salerno (2016), Artificial gauge fields in photonics and mechanical systems
• Francesco Bariani (2009), Light Propagation in Ultracold Atomic Gases