Dr Donatella Cassettari

Dr Donatella Cassettari

Lecturer

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 3109
Email
dc43@st-andrews.ac.uk

Teaching

Modules taught:

Quantum Phenomena (part of first-year physics), Physics of Atoms, Quantum Mechanics 2, part of Advanced Quantum Mechanics.

Other duties:

Final-year projects coordination, pre-honours advising, academic misconduct officer.

Research areas

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.

PhD supervision

  • Renzo听Testa

Selected publications

  • Open access
    Cassettari, D., Marchukov, O. V., Carruthers, B., Kendell, H., Ruhl, J., De Mitchell Pierre, B., Zara, C., Weidner, C. A., Trombettoni, A., Olshanii, M. & Mussardo, G., 19 Mar 2026, In: Physical Review A. 113, 3, 20 p., 032216.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access
    Cassettari, D., Mussardo, G. & Trombettoni, A., 31 Jan 2023, In: PNAS Nexus. 2, 1, 8 p., pgac279.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access
    Alonso, I., Alpigiani, C., Altschul, B., Ara煤jo, H., Arduini, G., Arlt, J., Badurina, L., Bala啪, A., Bandarupally, S., Barish, B. C., Barone, M., Barsanti, M., Bass, S., Bassi, A., Battelier, B., Baynham, C. F. A., Beaufils, Q., Beli膰, A., Berg茅, J. & Bernabeu, J. & 233 others, Bertoldi, A., Bingham, R., Bize, S., Blas, D., Bongs, K., Bouyer, P., Braitenberg, C., Brand, C., Braxmaier, C., Bresson, A., Buchmueller, O., Budker, D., Bugalho, L., Burdin, S., Cacciapuoti, L., Callegari, S., Calmet, X., Calonico, D., Canuel, B., Caramete, L.-I., Carraz, O., Cassettari, D., Chakraborty, P., Chattopadhyay, S., Chauhan, U., Chen, X., Chen, Y.-A., Chiofalo, M. L., Coleman, J., Corgier, R., Cotter, J. P., Michael听Cruise, A., Cui, Y., Davies, G., De听Roeck, A., Demarteau, M., Derevianko, A., Di听Clemente, M., Djordjevic, G. S., Donadi, S., Dor茅, O., Dornan, P., Doser, M., Drougakis, G., Dunningham, J., Easo, S., Eby, J., Elertas, G., Ellis, J., Evans, D., Examilioti, P., Fadeev, P., Fan矛, M., Fassi, F., Fattori, M., Fedderke, M. A., Felea, D., Feng, C.-H., Ferreras, J., Flack, R., Flambaum, V. V., Forsberg, R., Fromhold, M., Gaaloul, N., Garraway, B. M., Georgousi, M., Geraci, A., Gibble, K., Gibson, V., Gill, P., Giudice, G. F., Goldwin, J., Gould, O., Grachov, O., Graham, P. W., Grasso, D., Griffin, P. F., Guerlin, C., G眉ndo臒an, M., Gupta, R. K., Haehnelt, M., Han谋meli, E. T., Hawkins, L., Hees, A., Henderson, V. A., Herr, W., Herrmann, S., Hird, T., Hobson, R., Hock, V., Hogan, J. M., Holst, B., Holynski, M., Israelsson, U., Jegli膷, P., Jetzer, P., Juzeli奴nas, G., Kaltenbaek, R., Kamenik, J. F., Kehagias, A., Kirova, T., Kiss-Toth, M., Koke, S., Kolkowitz, S., Kornakov, G., Kovachy, T., Krutzik, M., Kumar, M., Kumar, P., L盲mmerzahl, C., Landsberg, G., Le听Poncin-Lafitte, C., Leibrandt, D. R., L茅v猫que, T., Lewicki, M., Li, R., Lipniacka, A., Lisdat, C., Liu, M., Lopez-Gonzalez, J. L., Loriani, S., Louko, J., Luciano, G. G., Lundblad, N., Maddox, S., Mahmoud, M. A., Maleknejad, A., March-Russell, J., Massonnet, D., McCabe, C., Meister, M., Me啪nar拧i膷, T., Micalizio, S., Migliaccio, F., Millington, P., Milosevic, M., Mitchell, J., Morley, G. W., M眉ller, J., Murphy, E., M眉stecapl谋o臒lu, 脰. E., O鈥橲hea, V., Oi, D. K. L., Olson, J., Pal, D., Papazoglou, D. G., Pasatembou, E., Paternostro, M., Pawlowski, K., Pelucchi, E., Pereira听dos听Santos, F., Peters, A., Pikovski, I., Pilaftsis, A., Pinto, A., Prevedelli, M., Puthiya-Veettil, V., Quenby, J., Rafelski, J., Rasel, E. M., Ravensbergen, C., Reguzzoni, M., Richaud, A., Riou, I., Rothacher, M., Roura, A., Ruschhaupt, A., Sabulsky, D. O., Safronova, M., Saltas, I. D., Salvi, L., Sameed, M., Saurabh, P., Sch盲ffer, S., Schiller, S., Schilling, M., Schkolnik, V., Schlippert, D., Schmidt, P. O., Schnatz, H., Schneider, J., Schneider, U., Schreck, F., Schubert, C., Shayeghi, A., Sherrill, N., Shipsey, I., Signorini, C., Singh, R., Singh, Y., Skordis, C., Smerzi, A., Sopuerta, C. F., Sorrentino, F., Sphicas, P., Stadnik, Y. V., Stefanescu, P., Tarallo, M. G., Tentindo, S., Tino, G. M., Tinsley, J. N., Tornatore, V., Treutlein, P., Trombettoni, A., Tsai, Y.-D., Tuckey, P., Uchida, M. A., Valenzuela, T., Van听Den听Bossche, M., Vaskonen, V., Verma, G., Vetrano, F., Vogt, C., von听Klitzing, W., Waller, P., Walser, R., Wille, E., Williams, J., Windpassinger, P., Wittrock, U., Wolf, P., Woltmann, M., W枚rner, L., Xuereb, A., Yahia, M., Yazgan, E., Yu, N., Zahzam, N., Zambrini听Cruzeiro, E., Zhan, M., Zou, X., Zupan, J. & Zupani膷, E., 20 Nov 2022, In: EPJ Quantum Technology. 9, 55 p., 30.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-review

  • Open access
    Amico, L., Boshier, M., Birkl, G., Minguzzi, A., Miniatura, C., Kwek, L.-C., Aghamalyan, D., Ahufinger, V., Anderson, D., Andrei, N., Arnold, A. S., Baker, M., Bell, T. A., Bland, T., Brantut, J. P., Cassettari, D., Chetcuti, W. J., Chevy, F., Citro, R. & De Palo, S. & 39 others, Dumke, R., Edwards, M., Folman, R., Fortagh, J., Gardiner, S. A., Garraway, B. M., Gauthier, G., G眉nther, A., Haug, T., Hufnagel, C., Keil, M., Ireland, P., Lebrat, M., Li, W., Longchambon, L., Mompart, J., Morsch, O., Naldesi, P., Neely, T. W., Olshanii, M., Orignac, E., Pandey, S., P茅rez-Obiol, A., Perrin, H., Piroli, L., Polo, J., Pritchard, A. L., Proukakis, N. P., Rylands, C., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H., Scazza, F., Stringari, S., Tosto, F., Trombettoni, A., Victorin, N., Klitzing, W. V., Wilkowski, D., Xhani, K. & Yakimenko, A., Sept 2021, In: AVS Quantum Science. 3, 3, 105 p., 039201.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access
    Bowman, D., Harte, T. L., Chardonnet, V., De Groot, C., Denny, S. J., Le Goc, G., Anderson, M., Ireland, P., Cassettari, D. & Bruce, G. D., 15 May 2017, In: Optics Express. 25, 10, p. 11692-11700 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access
    Bowman, D., Harte, T., Ireland, P., Cassettari, D. & Bruce, G. D., 28 Jul 2017, (Accepted/In press). 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceAbstract

  • Bowman, D., Harte, T., Ireland, P., Cassettari, D. & Bruce, G. D., 5 Sept 2017, (Unpublished). 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePoster

  • Open access
    Buccheri, F., Bruce, G. D., Trombettoni, A., Cassettari, D., Babujian, H., Korepin, V. E. & Sodano, P., 14 Jul 2016, In: New Journal of Physics. 18, 12 p., 075012.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access
    Bruce, G. D., Johnson, M., Cormack, E., Richards, D., Mayoh, J. & Cassettari, D., 14 Jun 2015, In: Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 48, 11, 115303.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Open access
    Torralbo-Campo, L., Bruce, G. D., Smirne, G. & Cassettari, D., 13 Oct 2015, In: Scientific Reports. 5, 14729.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review