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We theoretically study the critical speed for superfluid flow of a two-dimensional miscible binary superfluid of light past a polarization-sensitive optical obstacle. This speed corresponds to the maximum mean flow velocity below which…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-05 Pierre-Élie Larré , Claire Michel , Nicolas Cherroret

The Gross-Pitaevski (GP) equation describing helium superfluids is extended to non-Riemannian spacetime background where torsion is shown to induce the splitting in the potential energy of the flow. A cylindrically symmetric solution for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. C. Garcia de Andrade

We investigate superfluid flow around an airfoil accelerated to a finite velocity from rest. Using simulations of the Gross--Pitaevskii equation we find striking similarities to viscous flows: from production of starting vortices to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-16 Seth Musser , Davide Proment , Miguel Onorato , William T. M. Irvine

We examine a micro-scale model of superfluidity derived by Pitaevskii in 1959 which describes the interacting dynamics between superfluid He-4 and its normal fluid phase. This system consists of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-16 Juhi Jang , Pranava Chaitanya Jayanti , Igor Kukavica

In the linear response approximation, coherently driven microcavity polaritons in the pump-only configuration are expected to satisfy the Landau criterion for superfluidity at either strong enough pump powers or small flow velocities. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-12 E. Cancellieri , F. M. Marchetti , M. H. Szymanska , C. Tejedor

This paper deals with the obstacle problem for the fractional infinity Laplacian with nonhomogeneous term $f(u)$, where $f:\mathbb{R}^+ \mapsto \mathbb{R}^+$: $$\begin{cases} L[u]=f(u) &\qquad in \{u>0\}\\ u \geq 0 &\qquad in\, \Omega\\ u=g…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Samer Dweik , Ahmad Sabra

Given a bounded regular domain $\omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{N-1}$ and the half-cylinder $\Sigma = \omega \times (0,+\infty)$, we consider the relative overdetermined torsion problem in $\Sigma$, i.e. \[\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \Delta…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Filomena Pacella , David Ruiz , Pieralberto Sicbaldi

We numerically investigate wake dynamics in a superfluid flowing past a penetrable obstacle. Unlike an impenetrable object, a penetrable obstacle does not fully deplete the density. We define an effective diameter $D_{\rm eff}$ from the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-14 Junhwan Kwon , Y. Shin

The superfluid fraction $f$ of a quantum fluid is defined in terms of the response of the system to a weak and constant drag. Notably, Leggett long ago derived two simple expressions providing a rigorous upper bound and a heuristic lower…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-01-16 Daniel Pérez-Cruz , Grigori E. Astrakharchik , Pietro Massignan

\noindent In this paper we study existence of solution for a class of problem of the type $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -\Delta_{\Phi}{u}=f(u), \quad \mbox{in} \quad \Omega u=0, \quad \mbox{on} \quad \partial \Omega, \end{array} \right. $$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-12 Claudianor O. Alves , Edcarlos D. Silva , Marcos T. O. Pimenta

Superfluidity is a well-characterized quantum phenomenon which entails frictionless-motion of mesoscopic particles through a superfluid, such as $^4$He or dilute atomic-gases at very low temperatures. As shown by Landau, the incompatibility…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-15 Alberto Ambrosetti , Pier Luigi Silvestrelli , Luca Salasnich

We report a novel algorithm of constructing linear and nonlinear potentials in the two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation subject to given boundary conditions, which allow for exact analytic solutions. The obtained solutions represent…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-06-03 Zhenya Yan , V. V. Konotop , A. V. Yulin , W. M. Liu

We derive a fully quantum-mechanical equation of motion for a vortex in a 2-dimensional Bose superfluid, in the temperature regime where the normal fluid density $\rho_n(T)$ is small. The coupling between the vortex "zero mode" and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-21 L. Thompson , P. C. E. Stamp

In this paper we study nonnegative and classical solutions $u=u(\nx,t)$ to porous medium problems of the type \begin{equation}\label{ProblemAbstract} \tag{$\Diamond$} \begin{cases} u_t=\Delta u^m + g(u,|\nabla u|) & {\bf x} \in \Omega, t\in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Tongxing Li , Nicola Pintus , Giuseppe Viglialoro

We analyze the motion of quantum vortices in a two-dimensional spinless superfluid within Popov's hydrodynamic description. In the long healing length limit (where a large number of particles are inside the vortex core) the superfluid…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Klein , O. Agam , I. Aleiner

We study the dynamics of vortices in an inhomogeneous Gross-Pitaevskii equation $i \partial_t u = \Delta u + {1\over \varepsilon^2} (p_\varepsilon^2(x) - |u|^2)$. For a unique scaling regime $|p_\varepsilon(x) - 1 | = O(|\log…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Matthias Kurzke , Jeremy L. Marzuola , Daniel Spirn

The existence of frictionless flow below a critical velocity for obstacles moving in a superfluid is well established in the context of the mean-field Gross-Pitaevskii theory. We calculate the next order correction due to quantum and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-13 Andrew G. Sykes , Matthew J. Davis , David C. Roberts

In this paper we consider a mean curvature flow $V=H+A$ in a high dimensional cylinder $\Omega\times \R$, where, $A$ is a constant, $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in $\R^n$, and, for a hypersurface $y=u(x,t)$ over $\Omega$, $V$ and $H$ denote…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-19 Zhenghuan Gao , Bendong Lou , Jinju Xu

We study the boundary value problem $-{\rm div}(\log(1+ |\nabla u|^q)|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)=f(u)$ in $\Omega$, $u=0$ on $\partial\Omega$, where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in $\RR^N$ with smooth boundary. We distinguish the cases where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mihai Mihailescu , Vicentiu Radulescu

Recently, a rich variety of the micro-phenomena of the superfluid passing an obstacle has been observed in the binary mixture of rotating Bose--Einstein condensates (BECs). Among such phenomena, the interaction of dark--bright solitons is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Qi Gao , Chiun-Chang Lee , Tai-Chia Lin