Lecture
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09 Feb 2026 (2h 00m)
GIUSEPPE La Rocca - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face
Seminario 1 Dr. Carusotto: Basics of Bose-Einstein Condensation. BEC as a phase transition. Correlation functions. Order parameter and Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Energy minimization: ground state. Examples: ferromagnetic vs. nematic order in spin-1 condensates; supersolids.
09 Feb 2026 (2h 00m)
GIUSEPPE La Rocca - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face
Seminario 2 Dr. Carusotto: Collective excitations and Bogoliubov dispersion. Spontaneously broken symmetries and Goldstone theorem: density and spin modes; multiple sound modes in supersolids. Quantum Bogoliubov theory and dilute gas regime. Landau criterion for superfluidity: response to moving defect.
10 Feb 2026 (2h 00m)
GIUSEPPE La Rocca - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face
Seminario 3 Dr. Carusotto: Formal definitions of superfluidity: condensation in rotating systems, metastability of supercurrents, longitudinal vs. transverse current fluctuations. Relation to Meissner effect in superconductivity. Sound waves on flowing condensates: quantum field theory on a curved space-time. Analog black holes and analog Hawking emission. Correlated emission of phonon pairs. Quantum hydrodynamics.
16 Mar 2026 (2h 00m)
GIUSEPPE La Rocca - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online
Seminario 4 Dr. Carusotto: Photon mass and photon-photon interactions. Concept of quantum fluid of light. Driven-dissipative nature and different pumping configurations. Coherently pumped case: optical limiting and bistability; first order phase transition; gapped dispersion of collective excitations.
16 Mar 2026 (2h 00m)
GIUSEPPE La Rocca - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online
Seminario 5 Dr. Carusotto: Incoherently pumped case: second order phase transition and spontaneous symmetry breaking; non-equilibrium condensation and lasing; onset of long-range coherence; diffusive Goldstone mode. Superfluid light: Landau criterion; metastable supercurrents.
17 Mar 2026 (2h 00m)
GIUSEPPE La Rocca - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online
Seminario 6 Dr. Carusotto: Superfluid light: response to synthetic magnetic fields; rotation vs. magnetism. Basics of topological photonics and topological lasing. Basics of synthetic dimensions. Basics of strongly interacting fluids of light.
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