Manuele Landini, PhD

Manuele Landini is the Senior Scientist in Prof. Nägerl’s group.

He studied physics at the universities of Florence and Trento, Italy. He received his PhD degree in 2012 from the University of Trento for his thesis work: ‘A tunable Bose-Einstein condensate for quantum interferometry.’

He went on working as a Post-doctoral research fellow in Florence in the group of Massimo Inguscio until the end of 2014, contributing to several research projects making use of interaction tuning of ultra-cold 39K. He realized precision measurements of Efimov resonances, verifying their universal behavior. He realized the measurement of the mobility edge for Anderson localization in three spatial dimensions. He finally worked on tunable Bosonic Josephson junctions, where he could observe a quantum phase transition driven by attractive interatomic interactions. He realized measurements of the junction’s low energy dynamics, including Rabi and plasma oscillations as well as self-trapping.

From 2015 to 2018, he worked as a Post-doctoral research fellow in the group of Tilman Esslinger in ETH, Zürich. During this period, he worked on self-organization of degenerate Bosonic samples strongly coupled to a high-finesse optical cavity. He could realize an extended Bose-Hubbard model with global range interactions and study its phase diagram. He could also extend the BEC-cavity coupling scheme to the spin degree of freedom, generating self-organized spin textures. He finally studied the effects of dissipation on the phase diagram of the system.