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Experiments in the early 1980s have shown that a compact bundle of quantum vortex rings in superfluid helium remains coherent and travels a significant distance compared to its size. This is surprising because a single vortex ring, under…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-08 Luca Galantucci , Giorgio Krstulovic , Carlo F. Barenghi

One of the main features of superfluids is the presence of topological defects with quantised circulation. These objects are known as quantum vortices and exhibit a hydrodynamic behaviour. Nowadays, particles are the main experimental tool…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-21 Umberto Giuriato , Giorgio Krstulovic

The formation of quantized vortices is a unifying feature of quantum mechanical systems, making it a premier means for fundamental and comparative studies of different quantum fluids. Being excited states of motion, vortices are normally…

Physical vacuum is a special superfluid medium populated by enormous amount of virtual particle-antiparticle pairs. Its motion is described by the modified Navier-Stokes equation: (a)~the pressure gradient divided by the mass density is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 Valeriy I. Sbitnev

We have performed numerical calculations of the structure of the single-quantum vortex in superfluid $^3$He-A. The GPU-accelerated large-scale numerical simulation is performed in the Ginzburg-Landau model and resolves length scales of both…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-20 Riku Rantanen , Erkki Thuneberg , Vladimir Eltsov

Helices and spirals, prevalent across various systems, play a crucial role in characterizing symmetry, describing dynamics, and imparting unique functionalities, attributed to their inherent simplicity and chiral nature. A helical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-22 Yosuke Minowa , Yuki Yasui , Tomo Nakagawa , Sosuke Inui , Makoto Tsubota , Masaaki Ashida

Vortex mass, which is the inertia of a quantum vortex, has never been observed in superfluids and is a long-standing problem in low temperature physics. The impact of the mass is considered negligible in typical experiments with superfluid…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-12-13 Akihiro Kanjo , Hiromitsu Takeuchi

Irrotational relativistic vortex configurations in uniform subsonic motion with respect to a surrounding perfect fluid are analysed for the purpose of application to superfluid layers in neutron stars. Asymptotic solutions are found by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Brandon Carter , David Langlois , Denis Priou

I review the basic physics of ultracold dilute trapped atomic gases, with emphasis on Bose-Einstein condensation and quantized vortices. The hydrodynamic form of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (a nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation)…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 Alexander L. Fetter

Quantum vorticity occurs in superfluidity, which arises from a spatial variation of the quantum phase. As such, it can occur in diverse systems over a wide range of scales, from the electroweak sector and QCD of the standard model of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-01 Kerson Huang

We experimentally and numerically study the collapse dynamics of a quantum vortex in a two-dimensional atomic superfluid following a fast interaction ramp from repulsion to attraction. We find the conditions and time scales for a superfluid…

After over a decade of experiments generating and studying the physics of quantized vortices in atomic gas Bose-Einstein condensates, research is beginning to focus on the roles of vortices in quantum turbulence, as well as other measures…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-15 Angela C. White , Brian P. Anderson , Vanderlei S. Bagnato

We report real-time simulations of far-from-equilibrium dynamics of a holographic superfluid in three dimensions. The holographic duality maps a strongly coupled superfluid to a weakly coupled theory with gravity in a higher-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-14 Paul Wittmer , Carlo Ewerz

In Fermi superfluids, like superfluid 3He, the viscous normal component can be considered to be stationary with respect to the container. The normal component interacts with the superfluid component via mutual friction which damps the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 Vladimir Eltsov , Risto Hänninen , Matti Krusius

We propose an alternative approach to the dissipative vortex dynamics occurring in a superfluid vortex lattice at finite temperatures. Focusing upon the pseudomomentum of a vortex and its surrounding quasiparticles, we derive an equation of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-06-30 H. M. Cataldo

We consider a relativistic two-fluid model of superfluidity, in which the superfluid is described by an order parameter that is a complex scalar field satisfying the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation (NLKG). The coupling to the normal fluid…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-03 Chi Xiong , Kerson Huang

A vortex in a superfluid gas inside an optical lattice can behave as a massive particle moving in a periodic potential and exhibiting quantum properties. In this Letter we discuss these properties and show that the excitation of vortex…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-09-27 P. Vignolo , R. Fazio , M. P. Tosi

Superfluid turbulence consisting of quantized vortices is called quantum turbulence (QT). Quantum turbulence and quantized vortices were discovered in superfluid $^4$He about 50 years ago, but innovation has occurred recently in this field.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-05 Makoto Tsubota

Holographic duality provides a description of strongly coupled quantum systems in terms of weakly coupled gravitational theories in a higher-dimensional space. It is a challenge, however, to quantitatively determine the physical parameters…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-08 Paul Wittmer , Christian-Marcel Schmied , Thomas Gasenzer , Carlo Ewerz

Relativistic equation of state and velocity comparable with the speed of light are included in consideration of a superfluid rotating in a cylindrical container. Minimizing the free energy, we derive the equation of motion. It admits an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Vlasov