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Orthogonal and antiparallel vortex tubes and energy cascades in quantum turbulence

Quantum Gases 2018-07-17 v1 Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

We investigate the dynamics of energy cascades in quantum turbulence by directly observing the vorticity distributions in numerical simulations of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. By Fourier filtering each scale of the vorticity distribution, we find that antiparallel vortex tubes at a large scale generate small-scale vortex tubes orthogonal to those at the large scale, which is a manifestation of the energy cascade from large to small scales. We reveal the dynamics of quantized vortex lines in these processes.

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@article{arxiv.1807.05332,
  title  = {Orthogonal and antiparallel vortex tubes and energy cascades in quantum turbulence},
  author = {Tsuyoshi Kadokura and Hiroki Saito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.05332},
  year   = {2018}
}

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10 pages, 5 figures