On the 4th of October, we said goodbye to the Theory group‘s visiting PhD student Tanausú Hernández Yanes! Tana joined us almost a year ago from the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFPAN), where he obtained the scholarship NAWA PRELUDIUM BIS 1 from the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange to work with us.
During his visit, Tana worked on many projects such as investigating the expansion of a dipolar gas on the lattice alongside our longtime collaborator Prof. Luca Barbiero. Tana also completed his PhD thesis during his time with our group – good luck with your defense and we wish you the best in the next stage of your career, Tana!
Die Presse – the Austrian newspaper of record – has nominated Francesca for Austria 24, the Austrians of the year in the research category! This prestigious award is given to personalities who have achieved excellence in their field, and are honored in six categories:
International success
Research
Humanitarian commitment
Climate initiative
Cultural heritage
Company with responsibility
On Saturday the 26th of October 2024, at 17:25 ORF will broadcast the “Austrians of the year” awards ceremony, where Francesca is one of the 3 finalists in the category of research.
You can watch the program here:
From left to right: Leonardo Bellinato Giacomelli, Pramodh Senarath Yapa, Giuseppe Puca, Gianlorenzo De Filippo, Matteo Olimpo, Elena Poli, Francesca Ferlaino and Silvia Trabucco.
The first week of September 2024 marked the end of the 3 weeks of the Aurora Excellence Fellowship program and the beginning of a visit by Silvia Trabucco, who is a PhD student at Gran Sasso Science Institute in L’Aquila, Italy. Silvia is visiting to build upon an already successful collaboration regarding vortices in a dipolar supersolid and their connection to glitches in neutron stars.
Silvia Trabucco graduated in theoretical physics in Pisa in 2021 with a thesis about thermal properties of acoustic horizons realised with Bose-Einstein condensates. She joined the PhD program at the Gran Sasso Science Institute in L’Aquila, Italy. Her research interests include quantum simulation of gravitational black holes and their beyond-equilibrium properties, as well as phases of matter realised in compact stars. She worked with the University of Innsbruck to investigate the glitch mechanism of neutron stars employing dipolar supersolids.
The Aurora interns Gianlorenzo De Filippo, Matteo Olimpo and Giuseppe Puca made remarkable progress in their projects with the Theory team over the last 3 weeks, and we wish them the best of luck with their research at University of Naples Federico II!
Now published in the journal “Few-Body Systems”! Together with collaborators at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, we investigate the pinning dynamics of vortices in rotating dipolar supersolids. This work is a follow-up our paper last year on how glitches in the supersolid serve as a versatile analogue of the same behaviour in neutron stars.
From left to right: Gianlorenzo De Filippo, Matteo Olimpo and Giuseppe Puca.
On the 19th of August 2024, we welcomed three Masters’ interns to the Theory team under the Aurora Excellence Fellowship program!Gianlorenzo De Filippo, Matteo Olimpo and Giuseppe Puca will be with us for 3 weeks working on projects about supersolidity and lattice physics.
Gianlorenzo is from Formia in Italy and he is a Master degree student in astrophysics at the University of Naples Federico II. For the AURORA project he will be studying the supersolid phase transition in quantum gases and its relation to neutron star glitches.
Matteo was born on December 1, 2001, in Naples, Italy. He began his studies in physics in 2020 at the University of Naples Federico II, where he graduated in 2023 with a thesis on percolation theory. He is currently studying for a master’s degree in theoretical physics at the same university.
Giuseppe was born on October 19, 2001, in Naples, Italy. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Naples Federico II on October 2, 2023, with a thesis on the derivation of the Unruh effect using Feynman’s path integral formulation. He continued his studies in Naples, where he is currently enrolled in the Master’s degree program in Physics with a specialization in Theoretical Physics. Since 2020, he has been a student in the Ordinary Course in “Cosmology, Space Science, and Space Technologies” at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale in Naples. His current interests include statistical mechanics, complex systems, quantum many-body systems, quantum field theory and numerical methods.
We said goodbye to Antonio Ortu at the end of July 2024. Dr. Ortu joined the T-REQS lab as a Post-doc in May 2022, and has now moved to Copenhagen for a scientific staff position. Good luck at your new position, Antonio!
On the 4th of October, we said goodbye to the Theory group‘s visiting PhD student Tanausú Hernández Yanes! Tana joined us almost a year ago from the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFPAN), where he obtained the scholarship NAWA PRELUDIUM BIS 1 from the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange to work with us.
