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Roberto Onofrio

Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy

at Dartmouth since 2004

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Education

  • University of Rome "La Sapienza": Ph. D. 1991
  • University of Rome "La Sapienza": Laurea (Summa cum Laude) 1986

Experience

  • 2004-present: Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College
  • 2000-2003: Visiting Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • 1997-2000: Visiting Scientist, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 1991-2004: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics "Galileo Galilei", University of Padova (with tenure since 1994, part-time since 1998)
  • 1991 INFN Postdoctoral Fellow, Rome
  • 1987-1990 Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Prof. F. Guerra)
  • 1985-1987 Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Profs. E. Amaldi and G. Pizzella)

Honors and Awards

  • Summer student at CERN, Geneva, 1984
  • Fellowship "Enrico Persico" of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1985
  • Fellowship "Enrico Persico" of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1986.
  • CNR Fellowship, 1991
  • CNR-NATO Advance Fellowship, 1997

Memberships

  • American Physical Society
  • Sigma Xi, MIT Chapter
  • INFM, Rome

Contact Information

  • Office: 241 Wilder
  • Telephone: (603) 646-2962
  • E-mail: Roberto.Onofrio at Dartmouth.EDU

Research Interests

Macroscopic quantum physics: superfluidity in dilute atomic gases, Casimir effects and forces in the micrometer range, quantum mechanics of macroscopic and mesoscopic resonators, phenomenology of open quantum systems. (See research web site)

Selected Recent Publications

"Casimir forces and non-Newtonian gravitation," R. Onofrio, New Journal of Physics 8, 237 (2006).
"Exact Casimir interaction between eccentric cylinders," D. A. R. Dalvit, F. C. Lombardo, F. D. Mazzitelli, and R. Onofrio, Physical Review A 74, 020101(R) (2006).
"Detectability of dissipative motion in quantum vacuum via superradiance," W. J. Kim, J. H. Brownell, and R. Onofrio, Physical Review Letters 96, 200402 (2006).
"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, and S. Reynaud, Journal of Physics A 39, 6195 (2006).
"Development of a high-sensitivity torsional balance for the study of the Casimir force in the 1-10 micrometre range" A. Lambrecht, V. V. Nesvizhevsky, R. Onofrio and S. Reynaud, Class. Quantum Grav. 22, 5397 (2005).
"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, Physical Review A 72, 052102 (2005).
"Sympathetic cooling route to Bose-Einstein condensate and Fermi-liquid mixtures," R. Cote, R. Onofrio, and E. Timmermans, Physical Review A 72, 041605(R) (2005).
"Optimal cooling strategies for magnetically trapped atomic Fermi-Bose mixtures," M. Brown-Hayes and R. Onofrio, Physical Review A 70, 063614 (2004).
"Signatures of macroscopic quantum coherence in ultracold dilute Fermi gases," R. Onofrio and C. Presilla, Physical Review A 70, 043608 (2004).
"Casimir forces between eccentric cylinders," D. A. R. Dalvit, F. C. Lombardo, F. D. Mazzitelli, and R. Onofrio, Europhysics Letters 57, 517 (2004).
"Ultracold atomic Fermi-Bose mixtures in bichromatic optical dipole traps: a novel route to study fermion superfluidity," R. Onofrio and C. Presilla, Journal of Statistical Physics 115, 57 (2004).
"Cooling Dynamics of Ultracold Two-Species Fermi-Bose Mixtures," C. Presilla and R. Onofrio, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 030404 (2003).
"Contractive Schroedinger Cat States for a Free Mass," L. Viola and R. Onofrio, New Journal of Physics 5 (2003) 5.1-5.21.
"Reaching Fermi Degeneracy in Two-Species Optical Dipole Traps," R. Onofrio and C. Presilla, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 100401 (2002).
"Continuous Quantum Measurement of a Bose-Einstein Condensate: a stochastic Gross-Pitaevskii equation," D. A. R. Dalvit, J. Dziarmaga, and R. Onofrio, Phys. Rev. A 65, 053604 (2002).
"Measurement-induced squeezing of a Bose-Einstein Condensate," D. A. R. Dalvit, J. Dziarmaga, and R. Onofrio, Phys. Rev. A 65, 033620 (2002).
"Measurement of the Casimir Force between Parallel Metallic Surfaces," G. Bressi, G. Carugno, R. Onofrio, and G. Ruoso, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 041804 (2002).
"Experimental Studies of Macroscopic Forces in the Micrometer Range," G. Bressi, G. Carugno, A. Galvani, R. Onofrio, G. Ruoso, and F. Veronese, Class. Quantum Grav. 18, 3943 (2001).
"Dissipationless Flow and Superfluidity in Gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensates," C. Raman, R. Onofrio, J. M. Vogels, J. R. Abo-Shaeer, and W. Ketterle, J. Low Temp. Phys. 122, 99 (2001).
"Observation of Superfluid Flow in a Bose-Einstein Condensed Gas," R. Onofrio, C. Raman, J. M. Vogels, J. R. Abo-Shaeer, A. P. Chikkatur, and W. Ketterle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2228 (2000).
"Experimental searches for extra-gravitational forces in the submillimetre range," G. Bressi, G. Carugno, R. Onofrio, and G. Ruoso, Class. Quantum Grav. 17, 2365 (2000).
"Surface Excitations in a Bose-Einstein Condensate," R. Onofrio, D.S. Durfee, C. Raman, M. Köhl, C.E. Kuklewicz, and W. Ketterle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 810 (2000).
"Tunneling in rf-SQUIDs and tests of quantum mechanics at the macroscopic level," T. Calarco, M. Cini, and R. Onofrio, Journal of Superconductivity 12, 819 (1999).
"Evidence for a Critical Velocity in a Bose-Einstein Condensed Gas," C. Raman, M. Köhl, R. Onofrio, D.S. Durfee, C.E. Kuklewicz, Z. Hadzibabic, and W. Ketterle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2502 (1999).
"Are Violations to Temporal Bell Inequalities there when Somebody looks?," T. Calarco, M. Cini, and R. Onofrio, Europhys. Lett. 47, 407 (1999).
"Dynamics of Decoherence in Continuous Optoatomic Quantum Nondemolition Measurements," R. Onofrio and L. Viola, Phys. Rev. A 58, 69 (1998).
"Gravitation at the Mesoscopic Scale," R. Onofrio and L. Viola, Mod. Phys. Lett. A 12, 1411 (1997).
"Limits on the Existence of Scalar Interactions in the Submillimeter Range," G. Carugno, Z. Fontana, R. Onofrio, and C. Rizzo, Physical Review D 55, 6591 (1997).
"Measured Quantum Dynamics of a Trapped Ion," L. Viola and R. Onofrio, Phys. Rev. A 55, R3291 (1997).
"Macroscopic Quantum Damping in SQUID Rings," L. Viola, R. Onofrio and T. Calarco, Phys. Lett. A 229, 23 (1997).
"Testing the Equivalence Principle through Freely Falling Quantum Objects," L. Viola and R. Onofrio, Phys. Rev. D 55, 455 (1997).
"On the Measurement of a Weak Classical Force coupled to a Harmonic Oscillator: Experimental Progress," M. F. Bocko and R. Onofrio, Rev. Mod. Phys. 68, 755 (1996).

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