Francesca Ferlaino

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Francesca Ferlaino (born 1977) is an Italian-Austrian experimental physicist known for her research on quantum matter. She is a professor of physics at the University of Innsbruck.[1][2]

Biography[]

Francesca Ferlaino was born in Naples, Italy. She studied physics at the University of Naples Federico II (1995-2000) and was an undergraduate research fellow at the International School for Advanced Studies (ISAS) in Trieste (1999-2000). She did a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Florence and the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) (2001-2004). In 2007 she moved to the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where she was a research and teaching associate and started her own research group. In 2014 she became a professor of physics at the University of Innsbruck and research director at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.[3]

Work[]

Her research activity explores quantum phenomena in atomic gases at ultralow temperatures with contributions spanning topics including quantum matter of atoms and molecules and few-body and scattering physics. Over the last years, she focuses specifically on the strongly magnetic, and rather unexplored, Erbium and Dysprosium atomic species, realizing in 2012 world's first Bose-Einstein condensation of Erbium,[4] and in 2018 the first dipolar quantum mixture of Erbium and Dysprosium.[5] In 2019, she was able to prepare the first long-lived supersolid state, an elusive and paradoxical state where superfluid flow and crystal rigidity coexist.[6] With these systems, she has explored a variety of many-body quantum phenomena dictated by the long-range and anisotropic dipolar interaction among the atoms. In 2021 she created suprasolid states along two dimensions.[7]

Awards and fellowships[]

Her work has earned her multiple awards, including the Grand Prix de Physique "Cécile-DeWitt Morette/École de Physique des Houches" from the French Academy of Sciences (2019),[8] the Junior BEC Award (2019),[9] the Feltrinelli Prize (2017)[10] and the Erwin Schrödinger Prize (2017),[11] the highest award of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In addition, she is the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (2013),[12] a START-Prize (2009) and two ERC Grants (Starting 2010 and Consolidator 2016)[13] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2019, after a nomination from the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, "for ground-breaking experiments on dipolar quantum gases of erbium atoms, including the attainment of quantum degeneracy of bosons and fermions, studies on quantum-chaotical scattering, the formation of quantum droplets, and investigations on the roton spectrum".[14][15]

References[]

  1. ^ "Experimental Physics Innsbruck". University of Innsbruck. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Francesca Ferlaino". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  3. ^ "Francesca Ferlaino – Dipolar Quantum Gases". www.erbium.at. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  4. ^ Aikawa, K.; Frisch, A.; Mark, M.; Baier, S.; Rietzler, A.; Grimm, R.; Ferlaino, F. (21 May 2012). "Bose-Einstein Condensation of Erbium". Physical Review Letters. 108 (21): 210401. arXiv:1204.1725. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.210401.
  5. ^ Trautmann, A.; Ilzhöfer, P.; Durastante, G.; Politi, C.; Sohmen, M.; Mark, M. J.; Ferlaino, F. (21 November 2018). "Dipolar Quantum Mixtures of Erbium and Dysprosium Atoms". Physical Review Letters. 121 (21): 213601. arXiv:1807.07555. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.213601.
  6. ^ Chomaz, L.; Petter, D.; Ilzhöfer, P.; Natale, G.; Trautmann, A.; Politi, C.; Durastante, G.; van Bijnen, R. M. W.; Patscheider, A.; Sohmen, M.; Mark, M. J.; Ferlaino, F. (19 April 2019). "Long-Lived and Transient Supersolid Behaviors in Dipolar Quantum Gases". Physical Review X. 9 (2): 021012. doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.9.021012.
  7. ^ Norcia, M. A.; Politi, C.; Lauritz, K.; Poli, E.; Sohmen, M.; Mark, M. J.; Bisset, R. N.; Santos, L.; Ferlaino, F. (18 August 2021). "Two-dimensional supersolidity in a dipolar quantum gas". Nature. 596: 357–361. arXiv:2102.05555. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03725-7.
  8. ^ "Lauréate 2019 du prix Cécile DeWitt-Morette / École de Physique des Houches : Francesca Ferlaino | Lauréats | Prix et médailles | Encourager la vie scientifique". www.academie-sciences.fr. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  9. ^ "BEC Award". Bose-Einstein Condensation 2021. 30 September 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  10. ^ "Accademia dei Lincei: alla napoletana Francesca Ferlaino il premio Antonio Feltrinelli". www.ilmattino.it (in Italian). 9 November 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  11. ^ "Francesca Ferlaino". stipendien.oeaw.ac.at. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  12. ^ "Neue Alexander von Humboldt-Professoren ausgewählt - BMBF". Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung - BMBF (in German). Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  13. ^ "Francesca Ferlaino". stipendien.oeaw.ac.at. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  14. ^ "Fellows elected in 2019 from the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics". APS Fellows archive. American Physical Society. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  15. ^ "Francesca Ferlaino elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)". Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. 9 October 2019. Retrieved 29 April 2021.

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