Pitaevskii Center on Bose-Einstein Condensation

Principal investigators: Iacopo Carusotto, Chiara Menotti, Alessio Recati.

Postdocs: Jacopo Nespolo

PhD students: Ivan Amelio, Luca Giacomelli, Alberto Muñoz de las Heras, Francesco Piccioli, Alberto Nardin.

Main research field:

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

Recent PhD theses:

• 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