LUCA SALASNICH

Research Activity

• Position: Research Scientist (with tenure)
• Scientific Area: Physical Sciences
• Field of Research: Theoretical Physics
• Institution: Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM-CNR) of the National Research Council (CNR), Italy.
  On leave at Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze Fisiche della Materia (CNISM).
• Address: CNISM, Unit of Padua, c/o Department of Physics "Galileo Galilei", University of Padua,
  Via Marzolo 8, 35131 Padua, Italy
• Telephone: +39 049 827 7132
• E-Mail: salasnich@pd.infn.it

Teaching Activity

• Position: Adjunct Professor (part-time faculty appointment)
• Course: Historical and Epistemological Foundations of Physics I, SSIS, University Ca Foscari of Venice.
• Course: Introductory Mathematics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Padua.
• Course: Introductory Physics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Padua.
• Course: Mathematics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Padua.
• Course: Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Padua.
• Course: Applied Physics: Physical Devices, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Padua.
• Course: Introduction to Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena (with P.A. Marchetti), Graduate School in Physics, University of Padua.
• Course: Physics 1 (with P.A. Marchetti), Laurea in Mathematics, University of Padua.

Scientific Interests

• Many-Body Theory of Quantum Gases (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

Collaborations

• 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
• Flavio Toigo, University of Padua
• Nicola Manini, University of Milan
• Luciano Reatto, University of Milan
• Alberto Parola, University of Insubria
• Vincenzo Manfredi, University of Padua
• Fabio Sattin, RFX Consortium
• Francesco Ancilotto, University of Padua
• Vittorio Penna, Politecnico of Turin
• Mario Salerno, University of Salerno
• Maria Morandi Cecchi, University of Padua
• Giorgio Pennacchioni, University of Padua

Recent Talks

• 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,
  invied 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

• 2 kEuro: reseach grant "Top CNR Reseachers 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), with F. Toigo and F. Ancilotto, from Fondazione CARIPARO.
• 1 kEuro: Project "Matter-wave solitons in optical lattices" (2007-2008), from GNFM-INdAM.

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 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 reseach grant 2007-2009 we got from Fondazione CARIPARO (2007).
• Coverage of the local newspaper "Il Gazzettino" on the reseach grant 2007-2009 we got from Fondazione CARIPARO (2007).
• Online Coverage of PadovaNews on the reseach grant 2007-2009 we got from Fondazione CARIPARO (2007).
• Online Coverage of HEOS on the reseach grant 2007-2009 we got from Fondazione CARIPARO (2007).
• Press release of INFM about this paper of mine (2005).
• Online coverage of the economic newspaper "Il Sole 24 Ore" on this paper of mine (2005).
• Online coverage of the Bollettino Universita Ricerca (BUR) about the INFM Advance Project (PRA) on the Bose-Einstein Condensation (2001).

Curriculum Vitae and Publications

• Curriculum Vitae
• List of Publications
• According to Science Citation Index Expanded of Thomson-Reuters Corporation, up to now my 116 peer-reviewed papers in international scientific journals got more than 1500 citations. My most cited paper has received more than 180 citations. My Hirsch h-index is h = 22, i.e. I have 22 scientific papers (4 of them are single-authored) which have received at least 22 citations each. See also Phys Author Rank Algorithm.

Download Publications

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

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