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)