Pitaevskii Center for Bose-Einstein Condensation

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Alessio interview by Ansa is on Ansa.it Read more here.

 

Supersolidity in ultracold dipolar gases by Alessio Recati and Sandro Stringari is on Nature Review Physics Read more here.

 

False Vacuum Decay via Bubble Formation in ferromagnetic superfluids by A. Zenesini and coauthors is on Nature Physics Read more here.

 

In January 2023, Chiara Menotti was recognized as a 2023 Outstanding Referee of the Physical Review Journals.

 

The paper "Disorder-free localization with Stark gauge protection" by H. Lang et al., published in Physical Review B 106, 174305 (2022), has been selected as PRB Editors' Suggestion.

 

The paper Frequency Comb from a Single Driven Nonlinear Nanomechanical Mode Ochs, J. S. et al., Phys. Rev. X 12, 041019 (2023) has been published in Physical Review X

 

The paper "Observation of vortices and vortex stripes in a dipolar condensate L. Klaus et al., Nature, 18 1453-1458 December 2022 has been selected for News and Views Nature News and Views

 

The article 'Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality in a one-dimensional polariton condensate' by Iacopo Carusotto and coauthors has been published in . Nature 608, 687-691 (2022)

 

The paper "Excitations of Quantum Many-Body Systems via Purified Ensembles: A Unitary-Coupled-Cluster-based Approach" by C. L. Benavides-Riveros et al., published in Physical Review L 129, 066401 (2022), has been selected as PRL Editors' Suggestion.

 

Frequency Comb from a Single Driven Nonlinear Nanomechanical Mode The article from J. S. Ochs et al, has been featured in the online journal Physics with a Synopsis.

 

The article Thermalization dynamics of a gauge theory on a quantum simulator , by Zhou et al., has been published in Science 377, 311-314 (2022)

 

Iacopo Carusotto has been awarded with the Early Career Award of the Messori-Roncaglia/Mari Award of the Accedemia dei Lincei Here.

 

Alberto Biella has been awarded with the Early Career Award of the ILAMP 2021 Here.

 

The paper "Topologically protected frequency control of broadband signals in dynamically modulated waveguide arrays" by F. Piccioli et al., published in Physical Review A 105, 033361 (2022), has been selected as PRA Editors' Suggestion.

 

The paper Measurement of the order parameter and its spatial fluctuations across Bose-Einstein condensation by L. Wolswijk et al., published in Physical Review A 105, 033361 (2020), has been selected as PRA Editors' Suggestion.

 

Quantum torque paper is on the cover of December issue of Nature Physics Here

 

Our paper "Roadmap to Atomtronics" is on the cover of AVS Quantum Here

 

The paper "Quantum-torque-induced breaking of magnetic interfaces in ultracold gases" is published on Nature Physics Nat. Phys. (2021) Press releases and social links.   INFN Website Le Scienze INO-CNR CNR Website CNR Twitter CNR Facebook CNR Istagram. CNR Linkedin. UNITN. UNITN Facebook Adige. Nature Physics Facebook Provincia Trento TIFPA

 

Sandro Stringari has been invited to write the News Views article 'Second sound seen' in Nature Physics, published on June 9, 2021 Nature Physics 09 June (2021)

 

The article Robustness of gauge-invariant dynamics against defects in ultracold-atom gauge theories by Jad C. Halimeh et al., published in Physical Review Research 2, 033361 (2020), has been selected as PRR Editors' Suggestion.

 

The article 'Observation of gauge invariance in a 71-site Bose-Hubbard quantum simulator' by Bing Yang, Hui Sun, Robert Ott, Han-Yi Wang, Torsten V. Zache, Jad C. Halimeh, Zhen-Sheng Yuan, Philipp Hauke, and Jian-Wei Pan has been published in . Nature 587, 392 (2020)

 

The article A scalable realization of local U(1) gauge invariance in cold atomic mixtures, by A.Mil et al., has been published in Science 367, 1128 (2020)

 

Magnetic Solitons in a Bose-Einstein Condensate The article Observation of Magnetic Solitons in Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates, by Farolfi et al., has been featured in the online journal Physics with a Synopsis. The paper has been also selected by PRL as Editors' Suggestions.

 

IUPAP Young Scientist Prize 2020 Philipp Hauke received the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 2020 for his outstanding contributions to the development of quantum technologies. See also this article

 

Sandro Stringari is Emeritus Professor Sandro Stringari has been nominated Emeritus Professor of the University of Trento (see also this interview in occasion of his retirement)

 

Photonic materials in circuit quantum electrodynamics Review article by Carusotto et al., published in Nature Physics.

 

AIP Scilight: Magnetic shield provides field stability for ultracold atomic gas experiments. The article Design and characterization of a compact magnetic shield for ultracold atomic gas experiments, by Farolfi et al., Review of Scientific Instruments 90, 115114 (2019), has been selected by AIP Scilight.

 

The Prize Committee of the BEC Awards 2019, sponsored by TOPTICA Photonics AG, has awarded the senior BEC Award to Lev Pitaevskii and Sandro Stringari for the key role they have played, with both their individual works and their collaborative ones, on our understanding of Bose-Einstein condensates and Fermi gases. Their theoretical contributions have been essential for guiding a wide range of experimental investigations in this domain.

 

Supersolid symmetry breaking from compressional oscillations in a dipolar quantum gas L.Tanzi et al., Nature, online 9 September 2019 see also UniTrento press room Nature Physics Highlight Nature News and Views

 

PRA Editors' Suggestion: Static-response theory and the roton-maxon spectrum of a flattened dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate [R. N. Bisset, P. B. Blakie, S. Stringari, Phys. Rev. A 100, 013620 (2019)]

 

T.Ozawa and H.Price, former members of the BEC team, go on the cover page of Nature Reviews for their article Topological quantum matter in synthetic dimensions

 

JETP Special Issue in Honor of L.P. Pitaevskii's 85th Birthday

 

Sound Propagates in a 2D Bose Gas Despite Lack of Collisions Synopsis in Physics about the article by Miki Ota et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 145302 (2018), together with the article by Ville et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 145301 (2018)

 

The Fermi Prize 2018 of the Italian Physical Society has been awarded to Federico Capasso, Lev P. Pitaevskii and Erio Tosatti for their important contributions to the understanding of quantum properties of condensed matter. See also this article and video in UNITRENTOMAG.

 

The "Kurchatov Institute" awarded the Pomeranchuk Prize - 2018 to L.P. Pitaevskii in recognition of his fundamental contributions to modern theoretical physics including the low-temperature physics, plasma physics, and condensed matter physics.

 

Dynamical Equilibration Across a Quenched Phase Transition in a Trapped Quantum Gas [I.-K. Liu et al., Communications Physics 1, 24 (2018)] This article has been picked up for a Research Highlight in Nature Physics! A science blogger also wrote a piece about this article

 

PRA Editors' Suggestion: Second sound in a two-dimensional Bose gas: From the weakly to the strongly interacting regime [Miki Ota and Sandro Stringari, Phys. Rev. A 97, 033604 (2018)]

 

Exploring 4D quantum Hall physics with a 2D topological charge pump [M. Lohse et al., Nature 553, 55 (2018)]

 

Physics Synopsis and PRA Editors' Suggestion: Observation of a spinning top in a Bose-Einstein condensate [Bisset et al., Phys. Rev. A 96, 053605 (2017)]

 

Lasing in topological edge states of a one-dimensional lattice [P. St-Jean et al., Nature Photonics 11, 651 (2017)]

 

Experimental Measurement of the Berry Curvature from Anomalous Transport [M.Wimmer et al., Nature Physics 13, 545 (2017)]

 

Vortex Reconnections and Rebounds in Trapped Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates [S.Serafini et al., Phys. Rev. X 7, 021031 (2017)]

 

Exploring the ferromagnetic behaviour of a repulsive Fermi gas through spin dynamics [G.Valtolina et al., Nature Physics 13 704 (2017)]

 

PRL Editors' Suggestion: Repulsive Fermi polarons in a resonant mixture of ultracold 6Li atoms [F.Scazza et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 083602 (2017)]

 

PRL Editors' Suggestion: Diffused Vorticity and Moment of Inertia of a Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensate [Sandro Stringari, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 145302 (2017)]

 

IOP highlights a joint NanoLab & BEC paper: An asymmetric two-photon quantum interference experiment Trenti et al., Journal of Optics, Vol 18, published 4 July 2016

 

Acoustic Hawking radiation New and Views article by Iacopo Carusotto and Roberto Balbinot, Nature Physics, 15 August (2016) On the same subject, see also Interview with Alessio Recati in Repubblica TV, as well as this article in SIF - prima pagina.

 

PRA Editors' Suggestion: Self-bound dipolar droplet: A localized matter wave in free space [D.Baillie et al., Phys. Rev. A 94, 021602 (2016)]

 

PRB Editors' Suggestion: Measurement of Chern numbers through center-of-mass responses [H.M.Price et al., Phys. Rev. B 93, 245113 (2016)]

 

PRL Editors' Suggestion: Magnetic Solitons in a Binary Bose-Einstein Condensate [Chunlei Qu et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 160402 (2016)]

 

The Quantum Hall Effect Leaves Flatland Synopsis in Physics for the article by Hanna Price et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 195303 (2015)

 

Ultracold atoms: Feel the gauge New and Views article by Tomoki Ozawa, Nature Physics 11, 801 (2015)

 

PRL Editors' Suggestion: Quantum Signature of Analog Hawking Radiation in Momentum Space [Boiron et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 025301 (2015)]

 

EPJ - Special Topics Novel Quantum Phases and Mesoscopic Physics in Quantum Gases Guest editors: F. Chevy, R. Citro, G. Lamporesi, A. Minguzzi, A. Recati and T. Roscilde

 

Physics Synopsis Spin-Orbit Coupling for Photons and Polaritons in Microstructures [Sala et al., Phys. Rev. X 5, 011034 (2015)]

 

Physics Synopsis and PRL Editors' Suggestion: Acoustic Black Hole in a Stationary Hydrodynamic Flow of Microcavity Polaritons [Nguyen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 036402 (2015)]

 

Dynamics of a cold quantum gas "Perspective" article by Gabriele Ferrari in Science, 9 January 2015

 

Physicists study magnetism with the roles of position and momentum reversed Phys.org article on Price et al., PRL 113, 190403 (2014)

 

Physics Viewpoint and PRL Editors' Suggestion: Observation of Solitonic Vortices in Bose-Einstein Condensates [Donadello et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 065302 (2014)]

 

Physics Synopsis and PRA Editors' Suggestion: Spontaneous quantum emission from analog white holes in a nonlinear optical medium [Finazzi and Carusotto, Phys. Rev. A 89, 053807 (2014)]

 

EPJD cover Dynamics of highly unbalanced Bose-Bose mixtures: miscible vs. immiscible gases [Sartori and Recati, Eur. Phys. J. D 67, 260 (2013)]

 

Nat.Phys. cover Spontaneous creation of Kibble-Zurek solitons in a Bose-Einstein condensate [Lamporesi et al, Nature Physics 9, 656 (2013)]

 

Universität Innsbruck, Doctorate Honoris Causa to Lev Pitaevski, June 21, 2013 poster, photo 1, photo 2.

 

Second sound and the superfluid fraction in a Fermi gas with resonant interactions [L.A. Sidorenkov et al., Nature (2013) doi:10.1038/nature12136 ] see also: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

 

Université Montpellier 2, Doctorate Honoris Causa to Lev Pitaevski, May 3, 2012 poster, photo 1, photo 2, photo 3.

 

EPJD Highlight: Dipolar drag in bilayer harmonically trapped gases [N.Matveeva et al., EPJ D 65, 219 (2011)]

 

Twin Matter Waves for Interferometry Beyond the Classical Limit [B. Lücke et al., Science 334, 773 (2011)]

 

Polariton Superfluids Reveal Quantum Hydrodynamic Solitons [A. Amo et al., Science 332, 1167 (2011)]

 

October 2010: Sandro Stringari has been awarded with an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council

 

Physics Viewpoint: Sorting superfluidity from Bose-Einstein condensation in atomic gases I.Carusotto, Physics 3, 5 (2010)

 

Superfluidity of polaritons in semiconductor microcavities [A. Amo et al., Nature Physics 5, 805 (2009)]

 

Physics Viewpoint: Shifting entropy elsewhere [J. Catani et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 140401 (2009)]

 

Physics Synopsis: Simulating nuclear pasta [Gentaro Watanabe et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 121101 (2009)]

 

Confluence of resonant laser excitation and bidirectional quantum-dot nuclear-spin polarization [C. Latta et al., Nature Physics 5, 758 (2009) ]

 

Accademia dei Lincei premio "Alfredo di Braccio" per la Fisica assegnato a Alessio Recati (Roma, 11 giugno 2009)

 

The Russian Academy of Sciences awarded Landau Gold Medal to L.P. Pitaevskii for his outstanding contribution to modern theoretical physics (Moscow, 26 May 2009)

 

Nature Physics, Research Highlights: Condensate superposition [Piazza et al., Phys. Rev. A 78, 051601 (2008)]

 

Physics Synopsis: Casimir effects in the real world [Pitaevskii, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 163202 (2008)]

 

Trapped forever, but partners escape [Carusotto et al., New J. Phys. 10, 103001 (2008)]