Dr Donatella Cassettari

Dr Donatella Cassettari
School of Physics & Astronomy
University of St Andrews
North Haugh
St Andrews KY16 9SS
Scotland, UK

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Room	218
Phone	3109/3186
e-mail	dc43

Donatella's expertise is in the area of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute atomic gases. When a cloud of bosonic atoms is cooled below a critical temperature, a phase transition occurs that causes the atoms to "condense" into the same quantum state. A condensate can be thought of as a new state of matter in which the atoms behave as a single quantum mechanical entity. It is a promising system for the study of strongly correlated many-body quantum mechanics and for the implementation of quantum information processing with neutral atoms.

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Recent publications:

Kohnle, A , Cassettari, D , Edwards, TJ , Ferguson, C , Gillies, AD , Hooley, C , Korolkova, N , Llama, J & Sinclair, BD 2012, ' A new multimedia resource for teaching quantum mechanics concepts ' American Journal of Physics , vol 80, no. 2, pp. 148-153.

Bruce, GD, Bromley, SL , Smirne, G , Torralbo-Campo, L & Cassettari, D 2011, ' Holographic power-law traps for the efficient production of Bose-Einstein condensates ' Physical Review A , vol 84, no. 5, 053410, pp. -.

Bruce, GD, Mayoh, J , Smirne, G , Torralbo-Campo, L & Cassettari, D 2011, ' A smooth, holographically generated ring trap for the investigation of superfluidity in ultracold atoms ' Physica Scripta , vol T143, 014008, pp. -.

Smirne, G, Godun, RM , Cassettari, D , Boyer, V, Foot, CJ, Volz, T, Syassen, N, Duerr, S, Rempe, G, Lee, MD, Goral, K & Koehler, T 2007, ' Collisional relaxation of Feshbach molecules and three-body recombination in 87Rb Bose-Einstein condensates ' Physical Review A , vol 75, pp. 020702(R).

Boyer, V, Godun, RM, Smirne, G , Cassettari, D , Chandrashekar, CM, Deb, AB, Laczik, ZJ & Foot, CJ 2006, ' Dynamic manipulation of Bose-Einstein condensates with a spatial light modulator ' Physical Review A , vol 73, no. 3, pp. 0314021-0314024.

Current PhD Projects offered:

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Holographic traps and guides for superfluidity studies and atom interferometry
Holographic traps for the efficient production of Bose-Einstein condensates