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We present experimental and theoretical results on formation of quantum vortices in a laser beam propagating in a nonlinear medium. Topological constrains richer than the mere conservation of vorticity impose an elaborate dynamical behavior…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-22 Thibault Congy , Pierre Azam , Robin Kaiser , Nicolas Pavloff

We consider an incompressible fluid with axial symmetry without swirl, assuming initial data such that the initial vorticity is very concentrated inside $N$ small disjoint rings of thickness $\varepsilon$, each one of vorticity mass and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Paolo Buttà , Guido Cavallaro , Carlo Marchioro

The dynamics of quantum vortices in a two-dimensional annular condensate are considered by numerically simulating the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Families of solitary wave sequences are reported, both without and with a persistent flow, for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-09-27 Peter Mason , Natalia G. Berloff

We report the experimental observation of vortex leapfrogging in a two-dimensional fluid of light. By imprinting two vortex-antivortex pairs and tracking their real-time evolution through phase-resolved imaging, we observe a dynamics that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-10 Myrann Baker-Rasooli , Nathan du Toit , Nicolas Pavloff , Quentin Glorieux

Hydrodynamics of gases in the classical domain are examined from the perspective that the gas has a well-defined wavefunction description at all times. Specifically, the internal energy and volume exclusion of decorrelated vortex structures…

General Physics · Physics 2016-01-08 Clifford Chafin

Quantum hydrodynamics in superfluid helium and atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) has been recently one of the most important topics in low temperature physics. In these systems, a macroscopic wave function appears because of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-11 Makoto Tsubota , Michikazu Kobayashi , Hiromitsu Takeuchi

We theoretically examine the vortex states of a gas of trapped quasi-two-dimensional ultracold bosons subject to a density-dependent gauge potential, realizing an effective nonlinear rotation of the atomic condensate, which we also show is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-10-28 Matthew Edmonds , Muneto Nitta

It is known that the quantized vortices in a superfluid can be described by a dual electromagnetic model through the duality transformation. Recently a new technique, which can selectively remove atoms from a Bose-Einstein condensate, was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hui Zhai , Qi Zhou

Motivated by a recent experiment [K.C. Wright et. al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 025302 (2013)], we investigate deterministic discontinuous jumps between quantized circulation states in a toroidally trapped Bose-Einstein condensate. These phase…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-22 A. I. Yakimenko , Y. M. Bidasyuk , M. Weyrauch , Y. I. Kuriatnikov , S. I. Vilchinskii

This study aims to research on dynamics of two quantized vortices in miscible two-component Bose--Einstein condensates, trapped by a circular box potential by using the Gross--Pitaevskii equation. We consider a situation in which two…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-01-26 Junsik Han , Kenichi Kasamatsu , Makoto Tsubota

Quantized vortices are the hallmark of superfluidity, and are often sought out as the first observable feature in new superfluid systems. Following the recent experimental observation of vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates comprised of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-09-07 Thomas Bland , Giacomo Lamporesi , Manfred J. Mark , Francesca Ferlaino

Like many quantum fluids, superfluid helium-4 (He II) can be considered as a mixture of two miscible fluid components: an inviscid superfluid and a viscous normal fluid consisting of thermal quasiparticles [1]. A mutual friction between the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-11-04 Yuan Tang , Wei Guo , Hiromichi Kobayashi , Satoshi Yui , Makoto Tsubota , Toshiaki Kanai

In the present note, we solved numerically the viscous vorticity equation of the initial-boundary value problem describing the classic Helmholtz phenomena of vortex interaction. In the leapfrogging of vortex pairs, we demonstrate the fact…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-24 F. Lam

Vortices are pervasive in nature, representing the breakdown of laminar fluid flow and hence playing a key role in turbulence. The fluid rotation associated with a vortex can be parameterized by the circulation $\Gamma=\oint {\rm d}{\bf…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 N. G. Parker , B. Jackson , A. M. Martin , C. S. Adams

In quantum gases, weak links are typically realized with externally imposed optical potentials. We show that, in rotating binary condensates, quantized vortices in one component form hollow channels that act as self-induced weak links for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-02-03 Natalia Masalaeva , Wyatt Kirkby , Francesca Ferlaino , Russell N. Bisset

A large ensemble of quantum vortices in a superfluid may itself be treated as a novel kind of fluid that exhibits anomalous hydrodynamics. Here we consider the dynamics of vortex clusters with thermal friction, and present an analytic…

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

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

In binary mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates, massive-vortex dipoles can arise, and undergo scattering processes against obstacles. These show an intriguing dynamics, governed by the strongly nonlinear character of the quantum vortex…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-28 Alice Bellettini , Enrico Ortu , Vittorio Penna

We report evidence for an enstrophy cascade in large-scale point-vortex simulations of decaying two-dimensional quantum turbulence. Devising a method to generate quantum vortex configurations with kinetic energy narrowly localized near a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-08 M. T. Reeves , T. P. Billam , X. Yu , A. S. Bradley