Dr Salvatore Butera
- Lord Kelvin/Adam Smith Research Fellow (School of Physics & Astronomy)
telephone:
01413304268
email:
Salvatore.Butera@glasgow.ac.uk
Publications
2025
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938
(2025)
Corrections to the optomechanical Hamiltonian from quadratic fluctuations of a moving mirror.
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 111(4),
043524.
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.111.043524)
Berti, Anna, Fernandes, Lennart, Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Recati, Alessio, Wouters, Michiel and Carusotto, Iacopo
(2025)
Analog Hawking radiation from a spin-sonic horizon in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate.
Comptes Rendus Physique, 25(S2),
pp. 1-36.
(doi: 10.5802/crphys.226)
Ben Achour, Jibril, Benedetti, Dario, Bojowald, Martin, Brandenberger, Robert, Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Ferrero, Renata, Giacomini, Flaminia, Giesel, Kristina, Goeller, Christophe and Haas, Tobias
(2025)
Quantum gravity, hydrodynamics and emergent cosmology: a collection of perspectives.
General Relativity and Gravitation, 57(1),
pp. 1-59.
(doi: 10.1007/s10714-024-03335-4)
2024
Xie, Yu-Cun, Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938 and Hu, Bei-Lok
(2024)
Optomechanical backreaction of quantum field processes in dynamical Casimir effect.
Comptes Rendus Physique, 25(S2),
pp. 1-22.
(doi: 10.5802/crphys.186)
2023
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938
(2023)
Noise and dissipation on a moving mirror induced by the dynamical Casimir emission.
Journal of Physics: Photonics, 5(4),
045003.
(doi: 10.1088/2515-7647/acff56)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938 and Carusotto, Iacopo
(2023)
Numerical studies of back-reaction effects in an analog model of cosmological preheating.
Physical Review Letters, 130(24),
241501.
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.241501)
Armata, Federico, Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Montalbano, Federico, Passante, Roberto and Rizzuto, Lucia
(2023)
Field observables near a fluctuating boundary.
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2533,
012042.
(doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/2533/1/012042)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938 and Carusotto, Iacopo
(2023)
Analog simulations of early universe pre-heating and the back-reaction effect.
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2533,
012031.
(doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/2533/1/012031)
2022
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938
(2022)
Influence functional for two mirrors interacting via radiation pressure.
Physical Review D, 105(1),
016023.
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.016023)
2021
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938 and Carusotto, Iacopo
(2021)
Particle creation in the spin modes of a dynamically oscillating two-component Bose-Einstein condensate.
Physical Review D, 104,
083503.
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.083503)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Clément, David and Carusotto, Iacopo
(2021)
Position- and momentum-space two-body correlations in a weakly interacting trapped condensate.
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 103(1),
013302.
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.103.013302)
2020
Cayla, Hugo, Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Carcy, Cécile, Tenart, Antoine, Hercé, Gaétan, Mancini, Marco, Aspect, Alain, Carusotto, Iacopo and Clément, David
(2020)
Hanbury Brown and Twiss bunching of phonons and of the quantum depletion in an interacting Bose gas.
Physical Review Letters, 125(16),
165301.
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.165301)
2019
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938 and Carusotto, Iacopo
(2019)
Quantum fluctuations of the friction force induced by the dynamical Casimir emission.
Europhysics Letters, 128(2),
24002.
(doi: 10.1209/0295-5075/128/24002)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938 and Carusotto, Iacopo
(2019)
Mechanical backreaction effect of the dynamical Casimir emission.
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 99(5),
053815.
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.99.053815)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Westerberg, Niclas
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5858, Faccio, Daniele
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8397-334X and Öhberg, Patrick
(2019)
Curved spacetime from interacting gauge theories.
Classical and Quantum Gravity, 36(3),
034002.
(doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/aaf9f6)
2017
Armata, Federico, Kim, M.S., Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Rizzuto, Lucia and Passante, Roberto
(2017)
Nonequilibrium dressing in a cavity with a movable reflecting mirror.
Physical Review D, 96(4),
045007.
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.045007)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Öhberg, Patrik and Carusotto, Iacopo
(2017)
Black-hole lasing in coherently coupled two-component atomic condensates.
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 96(1),
013611.
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.96.013611)
Armata, F., Butera, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Fiscelli, G., Incardone, R., Notaraigo, V., Palacino, R., Passante, R., Rizzuto, L. and Spagnolo, S.
(2017)
Effect of boundaries on vacuum field fluctuations and radiation-mediated interactions between atoms.
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 880(1),
012064.
(doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/880/1/012064)
2016
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Valiente, Manuel and Öhberg, Patrik
(2016)
Vortex dynamics in superfluids governed by an interacting gauge theory.
New Journal of Physics, 18(August),
085001.
(doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/18/8/085001)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Valiente, Manuel and Öhberg, Patrik
(2016)
Quantized vortices in interacting gauge theories.
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 49(1),
015304.
(doi: 10.1088/0953-4075/49/1/015304)
2015
Bartolo, Nicola, Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Lattuca, Margherita, Passante, Roberto, Rizzuto, Lucia and Spagnolo, Salvatore
(2015)
Vacuum Casimir energy densities and field divergences at boundaries.
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 27(21),
214015.
(doi: 10.1088/0953-8984/27/21/214015)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938 and Di Paola, Mario
(2015)
Mellin transform approach for the solution of coupled systems of fractional differential equations.
Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 20(1),
pp. 32-38.
(doi: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2014.04.024)
2014
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938 and Di Paola, Mario
(2014)
A physically based connection between fractional calculus and fractal geometry.
Annals of Physics, 350,
pp. 146-158.
(doi: 10.1016/j.aop.2014.07.008)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938 and Di Paola, Mario
(2014)
Fractional differential equations solved by using Mellin transform.
Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 19(7),
pp. 2220-2227.
(doi: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2013.11.022)
2013
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938 and Passante, Roberto
(2013)
Field fluctuations in a one-dimensional cavity with a mobile wall.
Physical Review Letters, 111(6),
060403.
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.111.060403)
2011
Cottone, Giulio, Di Paola, Mario and Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938
(2011)
Stochastic dynamics of nonlinear systems with a fractional power-law nonlinear term: the fractional calculus approach.
Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 26(1),
pp. 101-108.
(doi: 10.1016/j.probengmech.2010.06.010)
Articles
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938
(2025)
Corrections to the optomechanical Hamiltonian from quadratic fluctuations of a moving mirror.
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 111(4),
043524.
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.111.043524)
Berti, Anna, Fernandes, Lennart, Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Recati, Alessio, Wouters, Michiel and Carusotto, Iacopo
(2025)
Analog Hawking radiation from a spin-sonic horizon in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate.
Comptes Rendus Physique, 25(S2),
pp. 1-36.
(doi: 10.5802/crphys.226)
Ben Achour, Jibril, Benedetti, Dario, Bojowald, Martin, Brandenberger, Robert, Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Ferrero, Renata, Giacomini, Flaminia, Giesel, Kristina, Goeller, Christophe and Haas, Tobias
(2025)
Quantum gravity, hydrodynamics and emergent cosmology: a collection of perspectives.
General Relativity and Gravitation, 57(1),
pp. 1-59.
(doi: 10.1007/s10714-024-03335-4)
Xie, Yu-Cun, Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938 and Hu, Bei-Lok
(2024)
Optomechanical backreaction of quantum field processes in dynamical Casimir effect.
Comptes Rendus Physique, 25(S2),
pp. 1-22.
(doi: 10.5802/crphys.186)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938
(2023)
Noise and dissipation on a moving mirror induced by the dynamical Casimir emission.
Journal of Physics: Photonics, 5(4),
045003.
(doi: 10.1088/2515-7647/acff56)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938 and Carusotto, Iacopo
(2023)
Numerical studies of back-reaction effects in an analog model of cosmological preheating.
Physical Review Letters, 130(24),
241501.
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.241501)
Armata, Federico, Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Montalbano, Federico, Passante, Roberto and Rizzuto, Lucia
(2023)
Field observables near a fluctuating boundary.
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2533,
012042.
(doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/2533/1/012042)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938 and Carusotto, Iacopo
(2023)
Analog simulations of early universe pre-heating and the back-reaction effect.
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2533,
012031.
(doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/2533/1/012031)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938
(2022)
Influence functional for two mirrors interacting via radiation pressure.
Physical Review D, 105(1),
016023.
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.016023)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938 and Carusotto, Iacopo
(2021)
Particle creation in the spin modes of a dynamically oscillating two-component Bose-Einstein condensate.
Physical Review D, 104,
083503.
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.083503)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Clément, David and Carusotto, Iacopo
(2021)
Position- and momentum-space two-body correlations in a weakly interacting trapped condensate.
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 103(1),
013302.
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.103.013302)
Cayla, Hugo, Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Carcy, Cécile, Tenart, Antoine, Hercé, Gaétan, Mancini, Marco, Aspect, Alain, Carusotto, Iacopo and Clément, David
(2020)
Hanbury Brown and Twiss bunching of phonons and of the quantum depletion in an interacting Bose gas.
Physical Review Letters, 125(16),
165301.
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.165301)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938 and Carusotto, Iacopo
(2019)
Quantum fluctuations of the friction force induced by the dynamical Casimir emission.
Europhysics Letters, 128(2),
24002.
(doi: 10.1209/0295-5075/128/24002)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938 and Carusotto, Iacopo
(2019)
Mechanical backreaction effect of the dynamical Casimir emission.
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 99(5),
053815.
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.99.053815)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Westerberg, Niclas
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5858, Faccio, Daniele
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8397-334X and Öhberg, Patrick
(2019)
Curved spacetime from interacting gauge theories.
Classical and Quantum Gravity, 36(3),
034002.
(doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/aaf9f6)
Armata, Federico, Kim, M.S., Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Rizzuto, Lucia and Passante, Roberto
(2017)
Nonequilibrium dressing in a cavity with a movable reflecting mirror.
Physical Review D, 96(4),
045007.
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.045007)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Öhberg, Patrik and Carusotto, Iacopo
(2017)
Black-hole lasing in coherently coupled two-component atomic condensates.
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 96(1),
013611.
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.96.013611)
Armata, F., Butera, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Fiscelli, G., Incardone, R., Notaraigo, V., Palacino, R., Passante, R., Rizzuto, L. and Spagnolo, S.
(2017)
Effect of boundaries on vacuum field fluctuations and radiation-mediated interactions between atoms.
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 880(1),
012064.
(doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/880/1/012064)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Valiente, Manuel and Öhberg, Patrik
(2016)
Vortex dynamics in superfluids governed by an interacting gauge theory.
New Journal of Physics, 18(August),
085001.
(doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/18/8/085001)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Valiente, Manuel and Öhberg, Patrik
(2016)
Quantized vortices in interacting gauge theories.
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 49(1),
015304.
(doi: 10.1088/0953-4075/49/1/015304)
Bartolo, Nicola, Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938, Lattuca, Margherita, Passante, Roberto, Rizzuto, Lucia and Spagnolo, Salvatore
(2015)
Vacuum Casimir energy densities and field divergences at boundaries.
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 27(21),
214015.
(doi: 10.1088/0953-8984/27/21/214015)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938 and Di Paola, Mario
(2015)
Mellin transform approach for the solution of coupled systems of fractional differential equations.
Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 20(1),
pp. 32-38.
(doi: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2014.04.024)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938 and Di Paola, Mario
(2014)
A physically based connection between fractional calculus and fractal geometry.
Annals of Physics, 350,
pp. 146-158.
(doi: 10.1016/j.aop.2014.07.008)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938 and Di Paola, Mario
(2014)
Fractional differential equations solved by using Mellin transform.
Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 19(7),
pp. 2220-2227.
(doi: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2013.11.022)
Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938 and Passante, Roberto
(2013)
Field fluctuations in a one-dimensional cavity with a mobile wall.
Physical Review Letters, 111(6),
060403.
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.111.060403)
Cottone, Giulio, Di Paola, Mario and Butera, Salvatore ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5980-3938
(2011)
Stochastic dynamics of nonlinear systems with a fractional power-law nonlinear term: the fractional calculus approach.
Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 26(1),
pp. 101-108.
(doi: 10.1016/j.probengmech.2010.06.010)