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This article reviews recent developments in the physics of quantized vortices in superfluid helium and atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. Quantized vortices appear in low-temperature quantum condensed systems as the direct product of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-01-19 Makoto Tsubota , Kenichi Kasamatsu , Michikazu Kobayashi

Quantum turbulence shares many similarities with classical turbulence in the isotropic and homogeneous case, despite the inviscid and quantized nature of its vortices. However, when quantum fluids are subjected to rotation, their turbulent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-06-23 Julian Amette Estrada , Marc E. Brachet , Pablo D. Mininni

This article reviews recent investigations on the phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensation of dilute gases. Since the experimental observation of quantum degeneracy in atomic gases, the research activity in the field of coherent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Ph. W. Courteille , V. S. Bagnato , V. I. Yukalov

We propose a scheme for generating two-dimensional turbulence in harmonically trapped atomic condensates with the novelty of controlling the polarization (net rotation) of the turbulence. Our scheme is based on an initial giant…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-04-06 A. Cidrim , F. E. A. dos Santos , L. Galantucci , V. S. Bagnato , C. F. Barenghi

A novel concept of quantum turbulence in finite size superfluids, such as trapped bosonic atoms, is discussed. We have used an atomic $^{87}\mathrm{Rb}$ BEC to study the emergence of this phenomenon. In our experiment, the transition to the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-05-16 R. F. Shiozaki , G. D. Telles , V. I. Yukalov , V. S. Bagnato

Dissipating of disorder quantum vortices in an annular two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate can form a macroscopic persistent flow of atoms. We propose a protocol to create persistent flow with high winding number based on a double…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-07 Xiyu Chen , Tao Yang , Wen-Li Yang , Wu-Ming Liu

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

We theoretically study the development of quantum turbulence from two counter-propagating superfluids of miscible Bose-Einstein condensates by numerically solving the coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations. When the relative velocity exceeds a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-11-29 Hiromitsu Takeuchi , Shungo Ishino , Makoto Tsubota

The occurrence of vortices in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) enables a description of their superfluid behaviour. In this article we present a pedagogical introduction to the vortex physics in trapped atomic BECs. The mechanism of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sankalpa Ghosh

Turbulence in quantum fluids has, surprisingly, a lot in common with its classical counterpart. Recently, cold atomic gases has emerged as a well controlled experimental platform to study turbulent dynamics. In this work, we introduce a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-01-24 Myrann Baker-Rasooli , Wei Liu , Tangui Aladjidi , Alberto Bramati , Quentin Glorieux

Forty-five years after the discovery of the peculiar quantum effect known as `probability backflow', and twenty years after the greatest possible size of the effect was characterized, an experiment has been proposed recently to observe the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-19 A. J. Bracken , G. F. Melloy

Rotating turbulence is ubiquitous in nature. Previous works suggest that such turbulence could be described as an ensemble of interacting inertial waves across a wide range of length scales. For turbulence in macroscopic quantum…

We investigate two-dimensional turbulence in finite-temperature trapped Bose-Einstein condensates within damped Gross-Pitaevskii theory. Turbulence is produced via circular motion of a Gaussian potential barrier stirring the condensate. We…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-11-27 M. T. Reeves , B. P. Anderson , A. S. Bradley

We show the generation of two-dimensional quantum turbulence through simulations of a giant vortex decay in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate. While evaluating the incompressible kinetic energy spectra of the quantum fluid described by the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-05-06 A. C. Santos , V. S. Bagnato , F. E. A. dos Santos

We study quantum turbulence in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates by numerically solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Combining rotations around two axes, we successfully induce quantum turbulent state in which quantized vortices are not…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Michikazu Kobayashi , Makoto Tsubota

We report on the experimental observation of vortices tangle in an atomic BEC of Rb-87 atoms when an external oscillatory perturbation is introduced in the trap. The vortices tangle configuration is a signature of the presence of a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2009-08-07 E. A. L. Henn , J. A. Seman , G. Roati , K. M. F. Magalhaes , V. S. Bagnato

Quantum droplets are small clusters of atoms self-bound by the balance of attractive and repulsive forces. Here we report on the observation of a novel type of droplets, solely stabilized by contact interactions in a mixture of two…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-01-24 C. R. Cabrera , L. Tanzi , J. Sanz , B. Naylor , P. Thomas , P. Cheiney , L. Tarruell

We present a turbulence-sustaining mechanism in a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate, which is based on the chaotic nature of internal spin dynamics. Magnetic driving induces a complete chaotic evolution of the local spin state, thereby…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-02-12 Jongmin Kim , Jongheum Jung , Junghoon Lee , Deokhwa Hong , Yong-il Shin

A trapped Bose-Einstein condensate, being strongly perturbed, exhibits several spatial structures. First, there appear quantum vortices. Increasing the amount of the injected energy leads to the formation of vortex tangles representing…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-04 V. I. Yukalov , A. N. Novikov , V. S. Bagnato

The current state of research on vortices carried by quantum droplets (QDs) has predicted their existence, in the stable form, in two- and three-dimensional free-space binary Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) and dipolar BECs. These…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-09-17 Guilong Li , Zibin Zhao , Bin Liu , Yongyao Li , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Boris A. Malomed