Dr Vera Guarrera PhD

Dr Vera Guarrera

School of Physics and Astronomy
Associate Professor

Contact details

Address
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Vera’s activity is focused on the manipulation and study of cold and room-temperature atomic gases. Her current research interests focus on the development of atomic magnetometers with a double orientation between Metrological application and Fundamental Physics.

Vera is also working on quantum simulations using ultracold Bose-Einstein condensates and on the investigation of Physics beyond the Standard Model using ultra-precise clocks based on highly-charged ions.

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Qualifications

  • PhD in Atomic Physics, LENS and University of Florence, Italy, 2008
  • Master in Physics, University of Padua, Italy, 2004

Teaching

  • LM Quantum Optics
  • Y1 tutor
  • Y4 projects

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Zipfel, J, Bevington, P, Wright, L, Chalupczak, W, Quick, G, Steele, B, Nicholson, J & Guarrera, V 2024, 'Indirect pumping of alkali-metal gases in a miniature silicon-wafer cell', Physical Review Applied, vol. 22, 014056. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.22.014056

Bevington, P, Nicholson, J, Zipfel, JD, Chalupczak, W, Mishra, C & Guarrera, V 2024, 'Optical control and coherent coupling of spin diffusive modes in thermal gases', Physical Review Research, vol. 6, no. 2, 023134. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.023134

Oliver, C, Smith, A, Easton, T, Salerno, G, Guarrera, V, Goldman, N, Barontini, G & Price, HM 2023, 'Bloch oscillations along a synthetic dimension of atomic trap states', Physical Review Research, vol. 5, no. 3, 033001. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.033001

Barontini, G, Blackburn, L, Boyer, V, Butuc-Mayer, F, Calmet, X, Lopez-Urrutia, JRC, Curtis, EA, Darquie, B, Dunningham, J, Fitch, NJ, Forgan, EM, Georgiou, K, Gill, P, Godun, RM, Goldwin, J, Guarrera, V, Harwood, AC, Hill, IR, Hendricks, RJ, Jeong, M, Johnson, MYH, Keller, M, Sajith, LPK, Kuipers, F, Margolis, HS, Mayo, C, Newman, P, Parsons, AO, Prokhorov, L, Robertson, BI, Rodewald, J, Safronova, MS, Sauer, BE, Schioppo, M, Sherrill, N, Stadnik, YV, Szymaniec, K, Tarbutt, MR, Thompson, RC, Tofful, A, Tunesi, J, Vecchio, A, Wang, Y & Worm, S 2022, 'Measuring the stability of fundamental constants with a network of clocks', EPJ Quantum Technology, vol. 9, no. 1, 12. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-022-00130-5

Smith, A, Easton, T, Guarrera, V & Barontini, G 2021, 'Generation of optical potentials for ultracold atoms using a superluminescent diode', Physical Review Research, vol. 3, no. 3, 033241. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.033241

Liu, G, Guarrera, V, Gu, S & Zhang, S 2021, 'Response dynamics of an alkali-metal-noble-gas hybrid trispin system', Physical Review A, vol. 104, 032827. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.104.032827

Guarrera, V, Gartman, R, Barontini, G, Bevilacqua, G & Chalupczak, W 2019, 'Parametric amplification and noise squeezing in room temperature atomic vapors', Physical Review Letters, vol. 123, no. 3, 033601. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.033601

Guarrera, V, Gartman, R, Bevilacqua, G & Chalupczak, W 2018, 'Linear and nonlinear coherent coupling in a Bell-Bloom magnetometer', Physical Review A, vol. 98, no. 6, 061401(R). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.98.061401

Guarrera, V, Moore, R, Bunting, A, Vanderbruggen, T & Ovchinnikov, Y 2017, 'Distributed quasi-Bragg beam splitter in crossed atomic waveguides', Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 4749. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04710-9

Barontini, G & Guarrera, V 2015, 'Localization by dissipative disorder: Deterministic approach to position measurements', Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, vol. 91, no. 3, 032114. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.91.032114

Comment/debate

Guarrera, V 2016, 'Lamb Shift Spotted in Cold Gases', Physics, vol. 9, no. 139, 041041. <https://physics.aps.org/articles/v9/139>

Conference contribution

Barontini, G, Boyer, V, Calmet, X, Fitch, NJ, Forgan, EM, Godun, RM, Goldwin, J, Guarrera, V, Hill, IR, Jeong, M, Keller, M, Kuipers, F, Margolis, HS, Newman, P, Prokhorov, L, Rodewald, J, Sauer, BE, Schioppo, M, Sherrill, N, Tarbutt, MR, Vecchio, A & Worm, S 2021, QSNET, a network of clocks for measuring the stability of fundamental constants. in MJ Padgett, K Bongs, A Fedrizzi & A Politi (eds), Quantum technology: driving commercialisation of an enabling science II., 118810K, Proceedings SPIE, vol. 11881, SPIE Photonex, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 28/09/21. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2600493

Letter

Guarrera, V, Gartman, R, Bevilacqua, G & Chalupczak, W 2021, 'Spin-noise spectroscopy of a noise-squeezed atomic state', Physical Review Research, vol. 3, no. 3, L032015. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.L032015

Preprint

Barontini, G, Naniyil, V, Stinton, JP, Reid, D, Gunn, JMF, Price, HM, Deb, AB, Caprioli, D & Guarrera, V 2025 'Observation of Fermi acceleration with cold atoms'.

Barontini, G, Blackburn, L, Boyer, V, Butuc-Mayer, F, Calmet, X, Lopez-Urrutia, JRC, Curtis, EA, Darquie, B, Dunningham, J, Fitch, NJ, Forgan, EM, Georgiou, K, Gill, P, Godun, RM, Goldwin, J, Guarrera, V, Harwood, A, Hill, IR, Hendricks, RJ, Jeong, M, Johnson, MYH, Keller, M, Sajith, LPK, Kuipers, F, Margolis, HS, Mayo, C, Newman, P, Parsons, AO, Prokhorov, L, Robertson, BI, Rodewald, J, Safronova, MS, Sauer, BE, Schioppo, M, Sherrill, N, Stadnik, YV, Szymaniec, K, Tarbutt, MR, Thompson, RC, Tofful, A, Tunesi, J, Vecchio, A, Wang, Y & Worm, S 2021 'Measuring the stability of fundamental constants with a network of clocks' arXiv. <https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10618>

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