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Impurity injection into superfluid helium is a simple yet unique method with diverse applications, including high-precision spectroscopy, quantum computing, nano/micro materialsynthesis, and flow visualisation. Quantised vortices are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-09 Yosuke Minowa , Shota Aoyagi , Sosuke Inui , Tomo Nakagawa , Gamu Asaka , Makoto Tsubota , Masaaki Ashida

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

We present a theoretical study of the inelastic scattering of vortex electrons by a hydrogen atom. In our study, special emphasis is placed on the effects of the Coulomb interaction between a projectile electron and a target atom. To…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-12-12 S. Strnat , J. Sommerfeldt , A. K. Sahoo , L. Sharma , A. Surzhykov

In superfluid helium, vorticity is quantized and constrained on line-like phase singularities, called quantum or quantized vortices. By visualizing the motion of sub-micron frozen particles in superfluid $^{4}$He, we directly observe for…

Two-dimensional superfluidity and quantum turbulence are directly connected to the microscopic dynamics of quantized vortices. However, surface effects have prevented direct observations of coherent vortex dynamics in strongly-interacting…

Quantum vortices in superfluids may capture matter and deposit it inside their core. By doping vortices with foreign particles one can effectively visualize them and study experimentally. To acquire a better understanding of the interaction…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-22 I. A. Pshenichnyuk

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

We address the collision of two superfluid 4 He droplets at non-zero initial relative velocities and impact parameters within the framework of liquid 4 He time-dependent density functional theory at zero temperature. In spite of the small…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2023-07-07 Ernesto García-Alfonso , Francesco Ancilotto , Manuel Barranco , Martí Pi , Nadine Halberstadt

In this article, we review the research on the dynamics of quantized vortices in superfluid helium and rotating Bose-Einstein condensates. First, after briefly reviewing the earlier research and describing the current problems on quantized…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Makoto Tsubota , Kenichi Kasamatsu , Tsunehiko Araki

Recent experiments on quantum turbulence in superfluid helium made use of small tracer particles to track the motion of quantized vortices, determine velocity statistics and visualize vortex reconnections. A problem with this visualization…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-06-01 C. F. Barenghi , Y. A. Sergeev

Quantum vortices, the quantized version of classical vortices, play a prominent role in superfluid and superconductor phase transitions. However, their exploration at a particle level in open quantum systems has gained considerable…

We demonstrate an experimentally feasible method for generating the classical Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a single component atomic Bose-Einstein condensate. By progressively reducing a potential barrier between two counter-flowing…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-05-23 A. W. Baggaley , N. G. Parker

At the interface between two fluid layers in relative motion, infinitesimal fluctuations can be exponentially amplified, inducing vorticity and the breakdown of the laminar flow. This process, known as the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, is…

We present numerical evidence that Kelvin waves (KWs) on quantized vortices in superfluid helium can be directly observed in the normal fluid component at finite temperatures. Using the Fully cOUpled loCAl model of sUperfLuid Turbulence…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-14 Simone Scollo , Luca Galantucci , Giorgio Krstulovic

Particles have been used for more than a decade to visualize and study the dynamics of quantum vortices in superfluid helium. In this work we study how the dynamics of a collection of particles set inside a vortex reflects the motion of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-20 Umberto Giuriato , Giorgio Krstulovic , Sergey Nazarenko

We present a fluid dynamics video showing the results of a 9-billion atom molecular dynamics simulation of complex fluid flow in molten copper and aluminum. Starting with an atomically flat interface, a shear is imposed along the…

We consider superfluid helium inside a container which rotates at constant angular velocity and investigate numerically the stability of the array of quantized vortices in the presence of an imposed axial counterflow. This problem was…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-04-05 Makoto Tsubota , Tsunehiko Araki , Carlo F. Barenghi

We consider the detailed dynamics of an array of quantised superfluid vortices in the framework of general relativity, as required for quantitative modelling of realistic neutron star cores. Our model builds on the variational approach to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 N. Andersson , S. Wells , J. A. Vickers

We have explored the light induced dynamics in superfluid helium nanodroplets with wide-angle scattering in a pump-probe measurement scheme. The droplets are doped with xenon atoms to facilitate the ignition of a nanoplasma through…

With the use of theory developed earlier, bulk effects in ultracold neutron coherent inelastic scattering are considered both for solid and liquid target samples related to energy and momentum exchange with phonon and diffusion-like modes.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. L. Barabanov , S. T. Belyaev
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