Recent Publications:

"Equilibrium states of a test particle coupled to finite-size heat baths", Qun Wei, S. Taylor Smith, and R. Onofrio, Physical Review E 79, 031128 (2009) . [download].

"On electrostatic and Casimir force measurements between conducting surfaces in a sphere-plane configuration", W. J. Kim, M. Brown-Hayes, D. A. R. Dalvit, J. H. Brownell, and R. Onofrio, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 161 012004 (2009) . [download].

"Reply to "Comment on `Anomalies in electrostatic calibrations for the measurement of the Casimir force in a sphere-plane geometry'"", W. J. Kim, M. Brown-Hayes, D. A. R. Dalvit, J. H. Brownell, and R. Onofrio, Physical Review A 79, 026102 (2009) . [download].

"Anomalies in electrostatic calibrations for the measurement of the Casimir force in a sphere-plane geometry", W. J. Kim, M. Brown-Hayes, D. A. R. Dalvit, J. H. Brownell, and R. Onofrio, Physical Review A 78, 020101 R (2008) . [download].

"Thermodynamical approaches to efficient sympathetic cooling in ultracold Fermi-Bose atomic mixtures", Michael Brown-Hayes, Qun Wei, Carlo Presilla, and Roberto Onofrio, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 41 164026 (9pp) (2008) . [download].

"Modelling superradiant amplification of Casimir photons in very low dissipation cavities", J. H. Brownell, W. J. Kim and R Onofrio, Physical Review A 78, 013617 (2008) . [download].

"Thermalization in open classical systems with finite heat baths", S.T. Smith and R. Onofrio, European Physics Journal B 61, 271-275 (2008). [download].

"Development of an Apparatus for Cooling ⁶Li–⁸⁷Rb Fermi–Bose Mixtures
in a Light-Assisted Magnetic Trap", M. Brown-Hayes, Q. Wei, W.J. Kim, and R. Onofrio, Laser Physics  vol.17, no.4, 514 (2007). [download].

"Detectability of dissipative motion in quantum vacuum via superradiance",
W.J. Kim, J. H. Brownell, R. Onofrio, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 200402 (2006). [download].

"Thermal and dissipative effects in Casimir physics" M. Brown-Hayes, J.H. Brownell, D.A.R. Dalvit, W.J. Kim, A. Lambrecht, F.C. Lombardo, F.D. Mazzitelli, S.M. Middleman, V.V. Nesvizhevsky, R. Onofrio, S. Reynaud, J. Phys. A: Math Gen. 39 6195-6208 (2006). [download].

"Development of a high-sensitivity torsional balance for the
study of the Casimir force in the 1-10 micrometre range," A. Lambrecht, V. V. Nesvizhavsky, R. Onofrio, and S. Reynaud, Classical and Quantum Gravity 22, 5397 (2005). [download].

"Towards a precision measurement of the Casimir force in a cylinder-plane geometry," M. Brown-Hayes, D.A.R. Dalvit, F.D. Mazzitelli, W.J. Kim, and R. Onofrio, Phys. Rev. A  72, 052102 (2005). [download].

"Sympathetic cooling route to Bose-Einstein condensate and Fermi-liquid mixtures," R. Côté, R. Onofrio, and E. Timmermans, Phys. Rev. A 72, 041605R (2005). [download].

"Optimal cooling strategies for magnetically trapped atomic Fermi-Bose mixtures," M. Brown-Hayes, R. Onofrio. Phys. Rev. A 70 063614 (2004). [download].

"Signatures of macroscopic quantum coherence in ultracold dilute Fermi gases," R. Onofrio and C. Presilla. Phys. Rev. A 70 043608 (2004). [download].

"Casimir force between eccentric cylinders," D.A.R. Dalvit, F.C. Lombardo, F.D. Mazzitelli, et al.  Europhysics Letters 67 517-523 (2004). [download].

"Ultracold atomic Fermi-Bose mixtures in bichromatic optical dipole traps: A novel route to study fermion superfluidity,"  R. Onofrio and C. Presilla,  J. Stat. Phys. 115 (1-2): 57-89 (2004). [download].

"Cooling Dynamics of Ultracold Two-Species Fermi-Bose Mixtures," C. Presilla and R. Onofrio, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 030404 (2003). [download].

"Reaching Fermi Degeneracy in Two-Species Optical Dipole Traps," R. Onofrio and C. Presilla, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 100401 (2002). [download].

"Measurement of the Casimir Force between Parallel Metallic Surfaces," G. Bressi, G. Carugno, R. Onofrio, and G. Ruoso, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 041804 (2002). [download].

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