Donatella Cassettari

Donatella Cassettari

School of Physics and Astronomy – Lecturer

Postal address:

School of Physics & Astronomy
Physical Science Building
North Haugh
St Andrews

United Kingdom

Condensed Matter Physics

E-mail: [email protected]

Web address: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~qmgas/

Direct phone: +44 (0)1334 463186/3109

Research overview

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.

Recent Publications

Bowman, D, Harte, T, Ireland, P, Cassettari, D & Bruce, GD 2017, ‘Potential landscaping for ultracold atoms using holographic optical traps’ International Conference on Quantum, Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics (QuAMP), Glasgow, United Kingdom, 4/09/17 – 7/09/17, .\n

Bowman, D, Harte, T, Ireland, P , Cassettari, D & Bruce, GD 2017, ‘Potential landscaping for ultracold atoms using holographic optical traps’ International Conference on Quantum, Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics (QuAMP), Glasgow, United Kingdom, 4/09/17 – 7/09/17, .\n

Bowman, D, Harte, TL, Chardonnet, V, De Groot, C, Denny, SJ, Le Goc, G, Anderson, M, Ireland, P , Cassettari, D & Bruce, GD 2017, ‘High-fidelity phase and amplitude control of phase-only computer generated holograms using conjugate gradient minimisation’ Optics Express, vol 25, no. 10, pp. 11692-11700. DOI: 10.1364/OE.25.011692\n

Buccheri, F , Bruce, GD, Trombettoni, A , Cassettari, D, Babujian, H, Korepin, VE & Sodano, P 2016, ‘Holographic optical traps for atom-based topological Kondo devices’ New Journal of Physics, vol 18, 075012. DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/18/7/075012\n

Torralbo-Campo, L , Bruce, GD , Smirne, G & Cassettari, D 2015, ‘Light-induced atomic desorption in a compact system for ultracold atoms’ Scientific Reports, vol 5, 14729. DOI: 10.1038/srep14729