Papers submitted for publication:

• Dynamical signature of vortex mass in Fermi superfluids
  A. Richaud, M. Caldara, M. Capone, P. Massignan,
  and G. Wlazƚowski
  arXiv:2410.12417.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Superfluid fraction of interacting bosonic gases
  D. Pérez-Cruz, G. E. Astrakharchik, and P. Massignan
  arXiv:2403.08416.
  
  
  See also the dedicated Commentary on the Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics by Thierry Giamarchi titled Leggett's bounds or how to quantify superfluidity.
  
  
  
  
  

Papers published on refereed journals:

69. Suppression of the superfluid Kelvin-Helmholtz instability due to massive vortex cores, friction and confinement
    M. Caldara, A. Richaud, M. Capone, and P. Massignan
    SciPost Phys. 17, 076 (2024).
    
    
    
    
    
    
68. Exact results for heavy unitary Bose polarons
    N. Yegovtsev, G. E. Astrakharchik, P. Massignan, and V. Gurarie
    Phys. Rev. A 110, 023310 (2024).
    
    
    
    
    
    
67. Conformal maps and superfluid vortex dynamics on curved and bounded surfaces: The case of an elliptical boundary
    M. Caldara, A. Richaud, P. Massignan, and A. L. Fetter
    SciPost Phys. 17, 039 (2024).
    
    
    
    
    
    
66. Mediated interactions between Fermi polarons and the role of impurity quantum statistics
    C. Baroni, B. Huang, I. Fritsche, E. Dobler, G. Anich, E. Kirilov, R. Grimm, M. A. Bastarrachea-Magnani,
    P. Massignan, and G. Bruun
    Nature Physics 20, 68 (2023).
    
    
    See also the Nature Physics's Research Briefing titled Mediated quasiparticle interactions observed in ultracold mixtures,
    and the press release on the UPC webpage.
    
    
    
    
    
65. Massive superfluid vortices and vortex necklaces on a planar annulus
    M. Caldara, A. Richaud, M. Capone, and P. Massignan
    SciPost Phys. 15, 057 (2023).
    
    
    
    
    
    
64. Observation of 1/k^4-tails after expansion of Bose-Einstein Condensates with impurities
    H. Cayla, P. Massignan, T. Giamarchi, A. Aspect, C. Westbrook, and D. Clément
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 153401 (2023).
    
    
    
    
    
    
63. Ultra-long quantum walks via spin-orbit photonics
    F. Di Colandrea, A. Babazadeh, A. Dauphin, P. Massignan, L. Marrucci, and F. Cardano
    Optica 10, 324 (2023).
    
    
    
    
    
    
62. Dynamics of a massive superfluid vortex in r^k confining potentials
    A. Richaud, P. Massignan, V. Penna, and A. L. Fetter
    Phys. Rev. A 106, 063307 (2022).
    
    
    
    
    
    
61. Strongly interacting impurities in a dilute Bose condensate
    N. Yegovtsev, P. Massignan, and V. Gurarie
    Phys. Rev. A 106, 033305 (2022).
    
    
    
    
    
    
60. Repulsive Fermi and Bose Polarons in Quantum Gases
    F. Scazza, M. Zaccanti, P. Massignan, M. M. Parish, and J. Levinsen
    Atoms 10, 55 (2022).
    
    
    
    
    
    
59. Superfluid vortex dynamics on an ellipsoid and other surfaces of revolution
    M. A. Caracanhas, P. Massignan, and A. L. Fetter
    Phys. Rev. A 105, 023307 (2022).
    
    
    
    
    
    
58. Linking topological features of the Hofstadter model to optical diffraction figures
    F. Di Colandrea, A. D'Errico, M. Maffei, H. M. Price, M. Lewenstein, L. Marrucci, F. Cardano, A. Dauphin, and P. Massignan
    New J. Phys. 24, 013028 (2022).
    
    
    
    
    
    
57. Renormalization-group study of Bose polarons
    F. Isaule, I. Morera, P. Massignan, and B. Juliá-Díaz
    Phys. Rev. A 104, 023317 (2021).
    
    
    
    
    
    
56. Stability and breakdown of Fermi polarons in a strongly interacting Fermi-Bose mixture
    I. Fritsche, C. Baroni, E. Dobler, E. Kirilov, B. Huang, R. Grimm, G. M. Bruun, and P. Massignan
    Phys. Rev. A 103, 053314 (2021). [Editor's Suggestion]
    
    
    
    
    
    
55. Topological transport of mobile impurities
    D. Pimenov, A. Camacho-Guardian, N. Goldman, P. Massignan, G. M. Bruun, M. Goldstein
    Phys. Rev. B 103, 245106 (2021).
    
    
    
    
    
    
54. Thermal instability, evaporation and thermodynamics of one-dimensional liquids in weakly-interacting Bose-Bose mixtures
    Giulia De Rosi, Grigori E. Astrakharchik, Pietro Massignan
    Phys. Rev. A 103, 043316 (2021).
    
    
    
    
    
    
53. Bloch-Landau-Zener dynamics induced by a synthetic field in a photonic quantum walk
    A. D'Errico, R. Barboza, R. Tudor, A. Dauphin, P. Massignan, L. Marrucci, and F. Cardano
    APL Photonics 6, 020802 (2021).
    
    
    See also the research highlight in AIP SciLight.
    
    
    
    
    
52. Universal aspects of a strongly interacting impurity in a dilute Bose condensate
    P. Massignan, N. Yegovtsev, and V. Gurarie
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 123403 (2021). [Editor's Suggestion]
    
    
    
    
    
51. Measuring topological invariants in polaritonic graphene
    P. St-Jean, A. Dauphin, P. Massignan, B. Real, O. Jamadi, M. Milićević, A. Lemaître, A. Harouri, L. Le Gratiet, I. Sagnes, S. Ravets, J. Bloch, and A. Amo
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 127403 (2021). [Editor's Suggestion]
    
    
    
    See also the press release on the ICFO webpage.
    
    
    
    
    
50. Mobile impurity in a Bose-Einstein condensate and the orthogonality catastrophe
    N.-E. Guenther, R. Schmidt, G. M. Bruun, V. Gurarie, and P. Massignan
    Phys. Rev. A 103, 013317 (2021).
    
    
    
    
    
    
49. Detecting topology through dynamics in interacting fermionic wires
    A. Haller, P. Massignan, and M. Rizzi
    Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033200 (2020).
    
    
    
    
    
    
48. Bulk detection of time-dependent topological transitions in quenched chiral models
    A. D'Errico, F. Di Colandrea, R. Barboza, A. Dauphin, M. Lewenstein, P. Massignan, L.Marrucci, and F. Cardano
    Phys. Rev. Research 2, 023119 (2020).
    
    
    
    
    
    
47. Superfluid vortex dynamics on a torus and other toroidal surfaces of revolution
    N.-E. Guenther, P. Massignan, and A. L. Fetter
    Phys. Rev. A 101, 053606 (2020).
    
    
    
    
    
    
46. Two-dimensional topological quantum walks
    in the momentum space of structured light
    A. D'Errico, F. Cardano, M. Maffei, A. Dauphin, R. Barboza, C. Esposito, B. Piccirillo, M. Lewenstein, P. Massignan,
    and L. Marrucci
    Optica 7, 108 (2020).
    
    
    
    
    
    
45. Beyond-Luttinger-liquid thermodynamics of a one-dimensional Bose gas with repulsive contact interactions
    G. De Rosi, P. Massignan, M. Lewenstein, and G. E. Astrakharchik
    Phys. Rev. Research 1, 033083 (2019).
    
    
    See also the press releases on the UPC and ICFO webpages.
    
    
    
    
44. Superfluid Vortex Dynamics on Planar Sectors and Cones
    P. Massignan and A. L. Fetter
    Phys. Rev. A 99, 063602 (2019).
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
43. From Quantum Quasiparticles to a Classical Gas
    P. Massignan
    Physics 12, 25 (2019).
    
    Viewpoint on the research paper Boiling a Unitary Fermi Liquid by M. Zwierlein's group at MIT.
    
    
    
    
    
    
42. Dropping an impurity into a Chern insulator:
    a polaron view on topological matter
    A. Camacho-Guardian, N. Goldman, P. Massignan,
    and G. M. Bruun
    Phys. Rev. B 99, 081105(R) (2019). [PDF]
    
    
    
    
    
    
41. Observation of the topological Anderson insulator in disordered atomic wires
    E. J. Meier, F. A. An, A. Dauphin, M. Maffei, P. Massignan,
    T. L. Hughes, and B. Gadway
    Science 362, 929 (2018).
    
    
    See also the research highlight in Nature Physics,
    and the press releases on the EurekAlert!
    and UPC webpages.
    
    
    
40. Bose polarons at finite temperature and strong coupling
    N.-E. Guenther, P. Massignan, M. Lewenstein, and G. M. Bruun
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 050405 (2018). [PDF]
    [Synopsis]
    
    
    
    
    
39. Topological characterization of chiral models through their long time dynamics
    M. Maffei, A. Dauphin, F. Cardano, M. Lewenstein, and P. Massignan
    New J. Phys. 20, 013023 (2018). [PDF]
    
    
    
    
    
38. Quantized superfluid vortex dynamics on cylindrical surfaces and planar annuli
    N.-E. Guenther, P. Massignan, and A. L. Fetter
    Phys. Rev. A 96, 063608 (2017). [PDF]
    [Synopsis]
    
    
    
    
    
37. Measuring Chern numbers in Hofstadter strips
    S. Mugel, A. Dauphin, P. Massignan, L. Tarruell, M. Lewenstein, C. Lobo, and A. Celi
    SciPost Physics 3, 012 (2017). [PDF]
    
    
    
    
    
36. Detection of Zak phases and topological invariants in a chiral quantum walk of twisted photons
    F. Cardano, A. D'Errico, A. Dauphin, M. Maffei, B. Piccirillo, C. de Lisio, G. De Filippis, V. Cataudella, E. Santamato, L. Marrucci, M. Lewenstein, and P. Massignan
    Nature Comm. 8, 15516 (2017). [PDF]
    
    
    
    
    
    
35. Universality of the unitary Fermi gas: A few-body perspective
    J. Levinsen, P. Massignan, S. Endo, and M. M. Parish
    J. Phys. B 50, 072001 (2017) [Topical Review]. [PDF]
    
    
    
    
    
34. Repulsive Fermi polarons in a resonant mixture of ultracold 6Li atoms
    F. Scazza, G. Valtolina, P. Massignan, A. Recati, A. Amico, A. Burchianti, C. Fort, M. Inguscio, M. Zaccanti, and G. Roati
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 083602 (2017) [Editor's Suggestion]. [PDF]
    
    
    
    
    
33. Vortex dynamics in coherently coupled Bose-Einstein condensates
    L. Calderaro, A. L. Fetter, P. Massignan, and P. Wittek
    Phys. Rev. A 95, 023605 (2017) [Editor's Suggestion]. [PDF]
    
    The complete computational appendix for this article is
    freely available on GitHub.
    
    
    
    
    
32. A Lindblad Model of Quantum Brownian Motion
    A. Lampo, S. H. Lim, J. Wehr, P. Massignan, and M. Lewenstein
    Phys. Rev. A 94, 042123 (2016). [PDF]
    
    
    
    
31. Topological bound states of a quantum walk with cold atoms
    S. Mugel, A. Celi, P. Massignan, J. K. Asbóth, M. Lewenstein, and C. Lobo
    Phys. Rev. A 94, 023631 (2016). [PDF]
    
    
    
    
    
30. Magnetism in strongly interacting one-dimensional quantum mixtures
    P. Massignan, J. Levinsen, and M. M. Parish
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 247202 (2015). [PDF]
    
    
    
    
    
29. Crossover between few and many fermions in a harmonic trap
    T. Grining, M. Tomza, M. Lesiuk, M. Przybytek, M. Musiał, R. Moszynski, M. Lewenstein, and P. Massignan
    Phys. Rev. A 92, 061601(R) (2015). [PDF]
    
    
    
    
    
28. Many interacting fermions in a one-dimensional harmonic trap: a quantum-chemical treatment
    T. Grining, M. Tomza, M. Lesiuk, M. Przybytek, M. Musiał, P. Massignan, M. Lewenstein, and R. Moszynski
    New J. Phys. 17, 115001 (2015). [PDF]
    Special issue on "Strongly Interacting Quantum Gases in One Dimension".
    
    
    
    
    
27. Strong-coupling ansatz for the one-dimensional Fermi gas in a harmonic potential
    J. Levinsen, P. Massignan, G. M. Bruun, and M. M. Parish
    Science Advances 1, e1500197 (2015). [PDF]
    
    
    See also the press release on the ICFO webpage.
    
    
    
26. Quantum Brownian motion with inhomogeneous damping and diffusion
    P. Massignan, A. Lampo, J. Wehr, M. Lewenstein
    Phys. Rev. A, 91, 033627 (2015). [PDF]
    
    
    
    
    
25. Weak ergodicity breaking of receptor motion in living cells stemming from random diffusivity
    C. Manzo, J. A. Torreno-Pina, P. Massignan, G. J. Lapeyre Jr., M. Lewenstein, and M. F. Garcia Parajo
    Phys. Rev. X 5, 011021 (2015). [PDF]
    
    See also the press release on the ICFO webpage.
    
    
    
24. Efimov trimers under strong confinement
    J. Levinsen, P. Massignan, and M. M. Parish
    Phys. Rev. X 4, 031020 (2014). [PDF]
    
    See also the press releases on the ICFO and London Centre for Nanotechnology webpages.
    
    
    
23. Non-ergodic subdiffusion from Brownian motion in an inhomogeneous medium
    P. Massignan, C. Manzo, J. A. Torreno-Pina, M. F. García-Parajo, M. Lewenstein, and G. J. Lapeyre Jr
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 150603 (2014).
    
    
    
    
22. Polarons, Dressed Molecules, and Itinerant Ferromagnetism in ultracold Fermi gases
    P. Massignan, M. Zaccanti, and G. M. Bruun
    (invited review paper, 26 pages)
    Rep. Prog. Phys. 77, 034401 (2014).
    
    
    
    
21. Synthetic Gauge Fields in Synthetic Dimensions
    A. Celi, P. Massignan, J. Ruseckas, N. Goldman, I.B. Spielman, G. Juzeliunas, and M. Lewenstein
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 043001 (2014).
    
    
    Highlighted as an Editor's choice in Science by Jelena Stajic.
    
    Our proposal directly inspired the experiments realized at NIST-JQI and LENS, which have been published back-to-back in Science.
    See the Perspective article in Science by A. Celi and L. Tarruell.
    
    See also the JQI press release , and their beautiful video:
    
    
    
    
    
20. Itinerant Ferromagnetism in a polarized two-component Fermi gas
    P. Massignan, Z. Yu, and G. M. Bruun
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 230401 (2013).
    
    
    
    
19. p-Wave Polaron
    J. Levinsen, P. Massignan, F. Chevy, and C. Lobo
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 075302 (2012).
    
    
    
    
18. Metastability and Coherence of Repulsive Polarons in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Mixture
    C. Kohstall, M. Zaccanti, M. Jag, A. Trenkwalder, P. Massignan, G. M. Bruun, F. Schreck, and R. Grimm
    Nature (Letter) 485, 615 (2012).
    
    
    Highlighted in the Nature's News and Views by P. Hannaford; see also the press releases on IQOQI and ICFO webpages.
    
    
    
17. Polarons and dressed molecules near narrow Feshbach resonances
    Pietro Massignan
    EuroPhysics Letters 98, 10012 (2012).
    arXiv:1112.1029.
    
    
    
    
16. Glass to superfluid transition in dirty bosons on a lattice
    J. Stasinska, P. Massignan, M. Bishop, J. Wehr, A. Sanpera, and M. Lewenstein
    New J. Phys. 14, 043043 (2012).
    
    
    
    
15. Repulsive polarons and itinerant ferromagnetism in strongly polarized Fermi gases
    P. Massignan and G. M. Bruun,
    Eur. Phys. J. D 65, 83 (2011).
    Topical issue on "Cold Quantum Matter".
    
    
    
    
14. Metastability in spin polarised Fermi gases and quasiparticle decays
    K. Sadeghzadeh, G. Bruun, C. Lobo, P. Massignan, and A. Recati,
    New J. Phys. 13, 055011 (2011).
    
    
    
    
13. Atomic wave packet dynamics in finite time-dependent optical lattices
    T. Lauber, P. Massignan, G. Birkl, and A. Sanpera,
    J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 44, 065301 (2011).
    
    
    
    
12. Topological superfluids on a lattice with non-Abelian gauge fields
    A. Kubasiak, P. Massignan, and M. Lewenstein,
    Europhysics Letters 92, 46004 (2010).
    
    
    
    
11. Decay of polarons and molecules in a strongly polarized Fermi gas
    G. M. Bruun and P. Massignan,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 020403 (2010).
    
    
    
    
10. Creating p-wave superfluids and topological excitations in optical lattices
    P. Massignan, A. Sanpera, and M. Lewenstein,
    Rapid Communication in Phys. Rev. A 81, 031607(R) (2010).
    
    
    
    
9. Strongly interacting Bose gas: Nozières and Schmitt-Rink theory and beyond
   A. Koetsier, P. Massignan, R. A. Duine, and H. T. C. Stoof,
   Phys. Rev. A 79, 063609 (2009).
   
   
   
   
8. Spin polarons and molecules in strongly-interacting atomic Fermi gases
   P. Massignan, G. M. Bruun, and H. T. C. Stoof,
   Rapid Communication in Phys. Rev. A 78, 031602(R) (2008).
   
   
   
   
7. Efimov states near a Feshbach resonance
   P. Massignan and H. T. C. Stoof,
   Rapid Communication in Phys. Rev. A 78, 030701(R) (2008).
   
   
   
   
6. Twin peaks in rf spectra of Fermi gases at unitarity
   P. Massignan, Georg M. Bruun, and H. T. C. Stoof,
   Rapid Communication in Phys. Rev. A 77, 031601(R) (2008).
   
   
   
   
5. Energy-dependent effective interactions for dilute many-body systems
   A. Collin, P. Massignan, and C. J. Pethick,
   Phys. Rev. A 75, 013615 (2007).
   
   
   
   
4. Three-dimensional strong localization of matter waves by scattering from atoms in a lattice with a confinement-induced resonance
   P. Massignan and Y. Castin,
   Phys. Rev. A 74, 013616 (2006).
   
   
   
   
3. Viscous relaxation and collective oscillations in a trapped Fermi gas near the unitarity limit
   P. Massignan, G. M. Bruun, and H. Smith,
   Phys. Rev. A 71, 033607 (2005).
   
   
   
   
2. Static properties of positive ions in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates
   P. Massignan, C. J. Pethick, and H. Smith,
   Phys. Rev. A 71, 023606 (2005).
   
   
   
   
1. One-dimensional model for the dynamics and expansion of elongated Bose-Einstein condensates
   P. Massignan and M. Modugno,
   Phys. Rev. A 67, 023614 (2003).
   
   
   
   
   

Ph.D. thesis:

• Positive ions, collective modes and Anderson localization in ultracold gases
  (developed at Niels Bohr Institute and NORDITA in Copenhagen, Denmark, in the group of Profs. Chris Pethick and Henrik Smith).
  See also the report on my Ph.D. thesis written by the examining Committee.

Master thesis:

• Modello unidimensionale per lo studio dell'espansione di condensati di Bose-Einstein da reticoli ottici
  (developed at LENS in Florence, Italy, in the group of Dr. Michele Modugno and Prof. Massimo Inguscio).

Public Outreach:

• Quantum technologies and society
  P. Massignan and A. Valencia,
  ICFO and CatalunyaCaixa-Ignacio Cirac Program Chair.
  
  Release announcement on the ICFO website.