Carmelo Mordini
Experimental quantum computing and simulation in ion traps at
Quantum Information and Matter Group, University of Padua.
Quantum information processing with trapped ions at
TIQI - Trapped Ion Quantum Information Group, ETH Zurich.
· Ion trapping in surface traps
· Integrated photonics
· Ion transport
Cold atoms and Bose-Einstein condensates at
BEC center, University of Trento.
· Thermodynamics of Bose gases
· Non-equilibrium dynamics of the BEC transition
· Spinor condensates
Contacts
Education
- 2015 – 2019
- PhD in Physics – University of Trento
Thesis title: Measurement of the density profile of quantized vortices and of the equation of state in a 3D interacting Bose gas
http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/3728/
Date: 21/06/2019 - 2010 – 2015
- Diploma di Licenza – Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Date: 19/12/2016 - 2013 – 2015
- Master degree in Physics – University of Pisa
Date: 21/10/2015 - 2011 – 2013
- Bachelor degree in Physics – University of Pisa
Date: 25/07/2013
Scientific career
- Jan 2024 – now
- Ricercatore (RTDA) in the Quantum Information and Matter Group – University of
Padua
Project: Development of an ion trap experiment for quantum computing and simulation
Within the PNRR project "National Centre for HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing" – Spoke 10
- Jan 2021 – Dec 2023
- Postdoc in the Trapped Ion Quantum Information Group – ETH, Zurich
Project: Integrated photonics for trapped-ion quantum computing
Supervisor: Jonathan Home - Sep 2019 – Jan 2021
- Postdoc in the Ultracold atomic gases laboratory of the BEC Center – University of
Trento
Project: Experimental investigation of equilibrium and non-equilibrium properties of Bose–Einstein condensates
Supervisor: Giacomo Lamporesi
Teaching
Courses
- Sep 2023 – Dec 2023
- Quantum Information Processing 1 – Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
- Mar 2023 – Jun 2023
- Trapped-ion physics – Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
- Sep 2022 – Feb 2023
- Physik 3 – Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
- Sep 2021 – Sep 2022
- Physikpraktikum 3 + 4 – Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
- Sep 2019 – Mar 2020
- Physics Lab 2 – Department of Physics, University of Trento
- Mar 2019 – Sep 2019
- Physics 1 – Department of Physics, University of Trento
- Mar 2016 – Sep 2016
- Physics 1 – Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering (DICAM), University of Trento
Supervision
- 2 semester project students
- 5 master project students
Publications
(2024) C. Mordini, A. R. Vasquez, Y. Motohashi, M. Müller, M. Malinowski, C. Zhang, K. K.
Mehta, D. Kienzler, J. P. Home.
Multi-zone trapped-ion qubit control in an integrated photonics QCCD device
arxiv:2401.18056.
(2023) F. Lancellotti, S. Welte, M. Simoni, C. Mordini, T. Behrle, B. de Neeve, M. Marinelli,
V. Negnevitsky, J. P. Home.
Low-excitation transport and separation of high-mass-ratio mixed-species ion chains
arxiv:2312.14006.
(2023) K. K. Mehta, A. R. Vasquez, C. Mordini, G. Beck, M. Malinowski, M. Stadler, C. Zhang,
D. Kienzler, J. P. Home.
Ion trap quantum computing using integrated photonics
Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXVII 124240I,
10.1117/12.2655382.
(2023) A. R. Vasquez, C. Mordini, C. Vérnière, M. Stadler, M. Malinowski, C. Zhang, D.
Kienzler, K. K. Mehta, J. P. Home.
Control of an atomic quadrupole transition in a phase-stable standing wave
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130: 133201,
10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.133201
-- arxiv:2210.02597.
(2022) L. Wolswijk, C. Mordini, A. Farolfi, D. Trypogeorgos, F. Dalfovo, A. Zenesini, G.
Ferrari, and G. Lamporesi.
Measurement of the order parameter and its spatial fluctuations across Bose-Einstein
condensation
Phys. Rev. A 105: 033316,
10.1103/PhysRevA.105.033316
-- arxiv:2201.08569.
(2021) A. R. Vasquez, C. Mordini, C. Zhang, M. Malinowski, D. Kienzler, K. K. Mehta, J. P.
Home.
Ion Qubit Control in a Passively Phase-Stable Optical Standing Wave
Quantum Information and Measurement VI 2021,
10.1364/QIM.2021.F2B.6.
(2021) A. Farolfi, A. Zenesini, D. Trypogeorgos, C. Mordini, A. Gallemì, A. Roy, A. Recati,
G. Lamporesi, G. Ferrari.
Quantum-torque-induced breaking of magnetic domain walls in ultracold gases
Nature Physics 17: 1359–1363 10.1038/s41567-021-01369-y --
arXiv:2011.04271.
(2020) C. Mordini, D. Trypogeorgos, L. Wolswijk, G. Lamporesi and G. Ferrari.
Single-shot reconstruction of the density profile of a dense atomic gas
Opt. Express 28 (20): 29408--29418,
10.1364/OE.397567 --
arxiv:2005.05674.
(2020) C. Mordini, D. Trypogeorgos, A. Farolfi, L. Wolswijk, S. Stringari, G. Lamporesi and
G. Ferrari.
Measurement of the Canonical Equation of State of a Weakly Interacting 3D Bose Gas
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125: 150404,
10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.150404
-- arXiv:2003.13627.
(2020) A. Farolfi, D. Trypogeorgos, C. Mordini, G. Lamporesi and G. Ferrari.
Observation of Magnetic Solitons in Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125: 030401,
10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.030401
--
arxiv:1912.10513.
(2018) E. Fava, T. Bienaimè, C. Mordini, G. Colzi, C. Qu, S. Stringari, G. Lamporesi and G.
Ferrari.
Observation of Spin Superfluidity in a Bose Gas Mixture
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120 (17): 170401,
10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.170401
--
arxiv:1708.03923.
(2018) G. Colzi, E. Fava, M. Barbiero, C. Mordini, G. Lamporesi and G. Ferrari.
Production of large Bose-Einstein condensates in a magnetic-shield-compatible hybrid trap
Phys. Rev. A 97 (5): 053625,
10.1103/PhysRevA.97.053625 --
arxiv:1803.08814.
(2018) F. Dalfovo, Russell N. Bisset, C. Mordini, G. Lamporesi and G. Ferrari.
Optical Visibility and Core Structure of Vortex Filaments in a Bosonic Superfluid
J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 127 (5): 80--811,
10.1134/S1063776118110018 --
arxiv:1804.03017.
(2017) C. Mordini, M. Zanoli.
Proceedings of the event IPSP2017: Industrial Problem Solving with Physics – 17-22/07/2017 –
University of Trento
ISBN: 978-88-8443-787-7, https://event.unitn.it/ipsp2021/IPSP2017_proceedings_ebook.pdf
(2016) T. Bienaimè, E. Fava, G. Colzi, C. Mordini, S. Serafini, C. Qu, S. Stringari, G.
Lamporesi and G. Ferrari.
Spin-dipole oscillation and polarizability of a binary Bose-Einstein condensate near the
miscible-immiscible phase transition
Phys. Rev. A 94 (6): 063652,
10.1103/PhysRevA.94.063652 --
arxiv:1607.04574.
Conferences and seminars
- 11/10 - 13/10/2023
- Quantum Computing and Simulation Workshop – Venezia, Italy
Contribution: poster
https://indico.dfa.unipd.it/event/818/page/56-venue - 25/09 - 29/09/2023
- ECTI 2023 - 7th European Conference on Trapped Ions – Schloss Bückeburg, Germany
Contribution: poster
https://konferenz.uni-hannover.de/event/79/ - 17/09 - 22/09/2023
- IEEE Quantum Week 2023 – Bellevue, Washington, USA
Contribution: invited talk at "Emerging Technologies for Scaling Trapped-ion Quantum Systems Workshop"
https://qce.quantum.ieee.org/2023/
https://www.sandia.gov/quantum/trapped-ion-workshop/ - 02/05 - 05/05/2023
- Quantum Science Generation Workshop 2023 – ECT*, Trento
Contribution: talk
https://indico.ectstar.eu/event/162/ - 18/09 - 23/09/2022
- IEEE Quantum Week 2022 – Broomfield, Colorado, USA
Contribution: poster
https://qce.quantum.ieee.org/2022 - 26/06 - 01/07/2022
- ECCTI 2022 - Early Career Conference in Trapped Ions – CERN, Geneva
Organized within the COST action TIPICQA
Contribution: talk
https://indico.cern.ch/event/991843/ - 29/11 - 02/12/2021
- EQTC 2021 - European Quantum Technologies Conference – National University of Ireland,
Galway – online
Organizers: European Quantum Flagship and Irish Centre for High-End Computing
Contribution: talk
https://www.eqtc.org/ - 20/07/2020
- Summer School on Physical Sensing and Processing – University of Bologna –
online
Organizers: D. Bonacorsi, N. Lanconelli, E. Leonessi (University of Bologna)
https://site.unibo.it/school-physical-sensing-and-processing/en - 15/07/2019
- Workshop on Quantum Mixtures – University of Trento
Organizers: F. Dalfovo, S. Giorgini, A. Recati (University of Trento), C. Salomon (LKB, Paris), Tin-Lun Ho (Ohio State University)
http://bec.science.unitn.it/qmix2019/ - 15-17/11/2018
- Florence - Trento meeting on Quantum gases – Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy
Organizers: BEC Center, Trento, and LENS, Florence
Contribution: talk
Workshop program and flyer - 28/09 - 01/09/2018
- EuroSciPy2018 – Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento
Organizers: The EuroSciPy team
https://www.euroscipy.org/2018/ - 22-27/07/2018
- ICAP 2018 – International Conference on Atomic Physics – University of Barcellona,
Spain
Organizers: University of Barcellona, ICFO – Institute for Photonic Sciences
Contribution: poster
http://icap2018.eu - 31/08 - 03/09/2016
- BEC2016 – Quantum gases and quantum coherence – University of Salerno, Italy
Organizers: F. Chevy (ENS, Paris, Fr), R. Citro (UniSa, Salerno, Italy), G. Lamporesi (INO-CNR BEC, Italy)
Contribution: poster
http://bec2016.physics.unisa.it/ - 21/02/2016
- International Conference on Quantum Optics 2016 – Obergurgl, Tirol (Austria)
Organizers: Hanns-Christoph Nägerl (University of Innsbruck)
https://www.uibk.ac.at/th-physik/obergurgl2016/ - 07-09/07/2015
- Introductory Course on Ultracold Quantum Gases – Institute of Quantum Optics and
Quantum Information (IQOQI), Innsbruck
Organizers: Francesca Ferlaino, Rudolph Grimm (University of Innsbruck)
https://www.uibk.ac.at/sp-physik/events/introductory_course_ultracold_quantum_gases_2015/index.html.en - 22-25/06/2015
- Cold atoms meet High Energy Physics – ECT*, Villazzano, Trento
Organizers: Sandro Stringari (Università di Trento)
https://www.ectstar.eu/workshops/cold-atoms-meet-high-energy-physics/ - 12-23/01/2015
- International Winter School and Workshop on "Strongly correlated fluids of light and
matter" – ECT*, Villazzano, Trento
Organizers: Iacopo Carusotto (Università di Trento)
http://www.science.unitn.it/~carusott/PHOTON15/index.html
Outreach and Scientific Events
- Jun 2022
- Participation in the Nacht der Physik outreach event
https://www.phys.ethz.ch/de/news-und-veranstaltungen/nacht-der-physik-2022.html - Mar 2020
- Collaboration in the Trento session of the orientation and outreach event TIQIT 2020 organized by the
Italian Association of Physics Students (AISF)
http://ai-sf.it/tiqit20/ - Feb 2017 - Jun 2017
- Organization of the technology transfer event IPSP - Industrial Problem Solving with Physics,
4th edition
https://www.unitn.it/archivio/events/ipsp2017.html - Nov 2016
- Organization of the Physics PhD Workshop
http://www.science.unitn.it/~dottorato/wiki/index.php?n=WorkShop16-17.WorkShop16-17