Prof. Dr. LUCA SALASNICH

Teaching Activity

• Course: Structure of Matter, M.Sc. in Physics, University of Padova.
• Course: Structure of Matter, B.Sc. in Optics and Optometrics, University of Padova.
• Course: Physical Principles of Radiotherapy and Radioprotection, B.Sc. in Medical Radiology Techniques, University of Padova.

Above there are the 4 books for didactics I have published up to now.

Scientific Interests

• Condensed Matter Theory at the University of Padova (web page of our research group)
• Nonlinear phenomena, collective dynamics and solitons
• Statistical physics and thermal field theory
• Quantum chaos, semiclassical quantization and WKB series
• Atomic nucleus and nuclear matter

Research Affiliations

• Department of Physics and Astronomy "Galileo Galilei" of the University of Padova
• CNISM Research Unit of Padova of the National Interuniversity Consortium for the Physical Sciences of Matter (CNISM)
• National Institute of Optics (INO-CNR) of the National Research Council (CNR)
• Center for Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (CAMTP) of the University of Maribor
• National Group for the Mathematical Physics (GNFM) of the National Institute for Higher Mathematics "Francesco Severi" (INDAM)

Recent collaborators

• Boris A. Malomed, Tel Aviv University
• Sadhan K. Adhikari, Sao Paulo State University
• Marko Robnik, University of Maribor
• Jose Maria Gomez Gomez, Complutense University of Madrid
• Kamales Kar, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
• Vladimir I. Inozemtsev, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
• Ljupco Hadzievski, Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences
• Barnali Chakrabarti, Lady Brabourne College, University of Calcutta
• Tapan Kumar Das, University of Calcutta
• Flavio Toigo, University of Padova
• Nicola Manini, University of Milan
• Luciano Reatto, University of Milan
• Alberto Parola, University of Insubria
• Fabio Sattin, RFX Consortium
• Francesco Ancilotto, University of Padova
• Vittorio Penna, Politecnico of Turin
• Mario Salerno, University of Salerno
• Sandro Graffi, University of Bologna
• Giorgio Pennacchioni, University of Padova

Recent Talks

• La Natura della Luce: dalle Scoperte alle Applicazioni,
  invited talk at the 1st Paduan Meeting of Optics and Optometrics, Padova (Italy), May 27, 2013.
• BCS-BEC crossover with Rashba and Dresselhaus couplings,
  Workshop on 'Ultracold Atoms and Gauge Theories', "Abdus Salam" International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste (Italy), May 13-17, 2013.
• Presentazione della Laurea in Ottica e Optometria,
  freshman seminar for future students of the School of Science, University of Padova, Agripolis Campus, Legnaro (Italy), February 21, 2013.
• Effects of spin-orbit coupling on the BCS-BEC crossover,
  Conference 'Pushing the Boundaries with Cold Atoms', Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA), Stockholm (Sweden), January 24, 2013.
• Condensate fraction in ultracold Fermi atoms and in neutron matter,
  Department of Structure and Constituents of Matter, Faculty of Physics, University of Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain), January 9, 2013.
• Resonant Fermi gas of atoms with spin-orbit coupling,
  Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), Barcelona (Spain), January 8, 2013.
• Quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates in nonlinear lattices ,
  LENCOS 2012, 2nd Conference on 'Localized Excitations in Nonlinear Complex Systems', Sevilla (Spain), July 8 - 12, 2012.
• Dynamical properties of the unitary Fermi gas: collective modes and shock waves,
  VI International and Interdisciplinary Workshop on 'Dynamics of Critically Stable Quantum Few-Body Systems', Erice (Italy), October 10 - 16, 2011.
• Population imbalance and condensate fraction with SU(3) superfluid fermions,
  20th International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS2011), Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina), July 11 - 16, 2011.
• Tunneling Quantistico Macroscopico con Atomi Ultrafreddi ,
  CNISM Meeting - Padova 2011, Fisica della Materia a Padova, Department of Physics "Galileo Galilei", University of Padua (Italy), January 19, 2011.
• Quantum phenomena at ultra-low temperatures, BEC-BEC crossover and the unitarity limit ,
  Center for Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Maribor, Maribor (Slovenia), September 8, 2010.
• Low-temperature thermodynamics of the unitary Fermi,
  QFS2010 Satellite Workshop "Cold gases meet many-body physics", Instutut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble (France), August 7, 2010.
• Dynamics of fermions and Fermi-Bose mixture in a double-well potential ,
  International Conference "Nonlinear phenomena in quantum degenerate gases" (NLQGAS10), Universidad de Vigo, Ourense (Spain), April 12-16, 2010.
• The unitary Fermi gas at zero and finite temperature,
  Department of Physics, University of Camerino, Camerino (Italy), February 9, 2010.
• The amazing unitary Fermi gas,
  ICTP-SISSA Statistical Physics Seminars, Scuola Internazionale Studi Superiori Avanzati (SISSA), Trieste (Italy), January 26, 2010.
• Generalized superfluid hydrodynamics for the unitary Fermi gas,
  Workshop "Mathematical Models of Quantum Fluids", Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Verona (Italy), September 14 - 17, 2009.
• Density functional and hydrodynamics equations for the confined unitary Fermi gas,
  Workshop "Quark-Gluon Plasma meets Cold Atoms - Episode II", ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, Riezlern (Austria), August 3 - 8, 2009.
• Surface effects in a unitary Fermi gas,
  18th International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS09), Barcelona (Spain), July 13 - 17, 2009.
• Macroscopic quantum phenomena and atomic Bose-Einstein condensates,
  7th Christmas Symposium of Physics at the University of Maribor, Maribor (Slovenia), December 11 -13, 2008.
• Dynamical Josephson effect with superfluid Fermi atoms across a Feshbach resonance,
  17th International Laser Physics Workshop" (LPHYS08), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Norway), June 30 - July 4, 2008.
• Physico-mathematical methods for the solution of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation,
  invited seminar at the Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Verona (Italy), June 24, 2008.
• Bose-Einstein condensates with negative scattering length,
  invited talk at the European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), University of Florence, Florence (Italy), May 29, 2008.
• Fenomeni quantistici macroscopici: superfluidita`, superconduttivita` e condensazione di Bose-Einstein,
  invited freshman seminar for undergraduate students in Applied Mathematics University of Verona, Verona (Italy), April 30, 2008.
• Static and dynamics of attractive BECs in an axial optical lattice ,
  International Conference "Nonlinear Phenomena in Degenerate Quantum Gases" (NLQGAS08), Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo (Spain), April 1 - 4, 2008.

Recent Research Grants

• 87 kEuro: PRIN Project 2010LLKJBX "Collective Quantum Phenomena: from Strongly-Correlated Systems to Quantum Simulators" (2013-2015), national coordinator: G. Casati [total grant: 968.1 kEuro]. Padova research group of the PRIN Project: F. Toigo (local coordinator), L. Salasnich, P.A. Marchetti, L. Dell'Anna, and G. Mazzarella. Financed by Ministero Istruzione Universita e Ricerca.
• 75 kEuro: Project "Macroscopic Quantum Properties of Ultracold Atoms under Optical Confinement" (2012-2014). Research group of the project: L. Salasnich (principal investigator), F. Toigo and L. Dell'Anna from Fondazione CARIPARO.
• 61.2 kEuro: Project "Quantum Information with Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices" (2012-2014). Research group: L. Salasnich (principal investigator), P.A. Marchetti, L. Dell'Anna, G. Mazzarella, from University of Padova.
• 2 kEuro: research grant "Top CNR Researchers of year 2005" from Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), October 2009.
• 76 kEuro: Project "Guided solitons in matter waves and optical waves with normal and anomalous dispersion" (2007-2009). Research group: F. Toigo (principal investigator), L. Salasnich, and F. Ancilotto, from Fondazione CARIPARO.
• 1 kEuro: Project "Matter-wave solitons in optical lattices" (2007-2008), from GNFM-INdAM. Research group: L. Salasnich (principal investigator).

Recently organized workshops

• Second Padua Symposium on Nonlinear Phenomena and Correlations in Ultracold Atomic Gases,
  18 September 2009, at the Department of Physics "Galileo Galilei", University of Padua.
• Padua Symposium on Nonlinear Phenomena and Correlations in Ultracold Atomic Gases,
  19 September 2008, at the Department of Physics "Galileo Galilei", University of Padua.

Media: Press and Online Coverage

• Coverage of the local newspaper "Il Gazzettino" on the research grant 2012-2014 on "Macroscopic Quantum Properties of Ultracold Atoms under Optical Confinement" we got from Fondazione CARIPARO (2012).
• Coverage in the LabTalks of "Journal of Physics B" about our work on Quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates in nonlinear lattices (2012).
• Coverage in the News Agency of the Sao Paulo Research Foundation about our work on the Localization of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a bichromatic optical lattice (2009).
• Coverage in the Highlights of the journal "EuroPhysics News" about our work on the Atomic Josephson junction with two bosonic species (2009).
• Press release of INFM, covered by Online News of the VENETO NANOTECH Corporation, about the research grant 2007-2009 on "Guided solitons in matter waves and optical waves with normal and anomalous dispersion" we got from Fondazione CARIPARO (2007).
• Coverage of the local newspaper "Il Gazzettino" on the research grant 2007-2009 on "Guided solitons in matter waves and optical waves with normal and anomalous dispersion" we got from Fondazione CARIPARO (2007).
• Online Coverage of PadovaNews on the research grant 2007-2009 we got on "Guided solitons in matter waves and optical waves with normal and anomalous dispersion" from Fondazione CARIPARO (2007).
• Online Coverage of HEOS on the research grant 2007-2009 on "Guided solitons in matter waves and optical waves with normal and anomalous dispersion" we got from Fondazione CARIPARO (2007).
• Press release of INFM about our paper on "1/f^a noise in spectral fluctuations of quantum systems" (2005).
• Online coverage of the economic newspaper "Il Sole 24 Ore" about our paper on "1/f^a noise in spectral fluctuations of quantum systems" (2005).
• Online coverage of the Bollettino Universita Ricerca (BUR) about the INFM Advanced Project (PRA) on "Experimental and theoretical investigation of Bose-Einstein condensation in confined alkali atoms" (2001).

Short CV, List of Publications and Science Citation Index

• Short CV
• Full list of publications
• According to Science Citation Index Expanded of Thomson-Reuters Corporation, up to now my peer-reviewed papers in international scientific journals got more than 2400 citations. My most cited paper has received more than 270 citations. My Hirsch h-index is h = 28, i.e. I have 28 scientific papers (4 of them are single-authored) which have received at least 28 citations each (2.64 authors per paper).
• Citation of my papers according to Google Scholar
• See also my name in the Phys Author Rank Algorithm.

Download Publications

• My papers on physics at the ArXiv library
• My papers on nonlinear sciences at the ArXiv library
• My papers on nuclear and particle physics at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Collider (SLAC) library

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