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We study the current dynamics of coupled atomic condensates flowing in two ring-shaped optical potentials. We provide a specific setup where the ring-ring coupling can be tuned in experimentally feasible way. It is demonstrated that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-22 Davit Aghamalyan , Luigi Amico , L. C Kwek

Quantized vortices are the prototypical feature of superfluidity. Pervasive in all natural systems, vortices are yet to be observed in dipolar quantum gases. Here, we exploit the anisotropic nature of the dipole-dipole interaction of a…

We present variational and numerical solutions for the problem of stability of persistent currents in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate of distinguishable atoms which rotate in a ring potential. We consider the general class of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-18 J. Smyrnakis , M. Magiropoulos , Nikolaos K. Efremidis , G. M. Kavoulakis

Dynamical vortex production and quantum turbulence emerging in periodic perturbed quasi-two-dimensional (q2D) Bose-Einstein condensates are reported by considering two distinct time-dependent approaches. In both cases, dynamical simulations…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-01-19 L. Tomio , A. N. da Silva , S. Sabari , R. Kishor Kumar

Persistent currents--inviscid quantized flow around an atomic circuit--are a crucial building block of atomtronic devices. We investigate how acceleration influences the transfer of persistent currents between two density-connected,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-09 A. Chaika , A. O. Oliinyk , I. V. Yatsuta , N. P. Proukakis , M. Edwards , A. I. Yakimenko , T. Bland

A Bose-Einstein condensate of cold atoms is a superfluid and thus responds to rotation of its container by the nucleation of quantized vortices. If the trapping potential is su ciently strong, there is no theoretical limit to the rotation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-01 Michele Correggi , Florian Pinsker , Nicolas Rougerie , Jakob Yngvason

We introduce a novel mechanism to develop a turbulent flow in a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate, consisting in the stirring of a single line vortex by means of an external magnetic field. We find that density and velocity fluctuations have…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-17 B. Villaseñor , R. Zamora-Zamora , D. Bernal , V. Romero-Rochín

Coupled coaxially stacked toroidal condensates with persistent currents suggest an appealing physical platform for the investigation of various phenomena related to interacting superflows from Josephson effects in the regime of weak…

We propose and numerically validate an experimentally feasible on-demand protocol for the nucleation and manipulation of stable quantum vortex rings in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates. The method relies on sweeping a laser-sheet barrier…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-11 Giorgia Iori , Klejdja Xhani , Woo Jin Kwon , Davide Emilio Galli , Luca Galantucci

For spin one atoms localized in a quadrapole magnetic field gradient, the atoms may be impeded from spin flipping their way out from the center of the trap by the application of a rotating uniform magnetic field. From a quantum mechanical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Juhao Wu , A. Widom

We study the instability of a superfluid flow through a constriction in three spatial dimensions. We consider a Bose-Einstein condensate at zero temperature in two different geometries: a straight waveguide and a torus. The constriction…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-04-11 F. Piazza , L. A. Collins , A. Smerzi

We observed the expansion of vortex-free Bose-condensates after their sudden release from a slowly rotating anisotropic trap. Our results show clear experimental evidence of the irrotational flow expected for a superfluid. The expansion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Hechenblaikner , E. Hodby , S. A. Hopkins , O. M. Marago' , C. J. Foot

The stability of persistent currents in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate in a toroidal trap is studied both in the miscible and immiscible regimes. In the miscible regime we show that superflow decay is related to linear…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-05-06 M. Abad , A. Sartori , S. Finazzi , A. Recati

We present a study of how macroscopic flow can be produced in Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a "racetrack" potential by stirring with a wide rectangular barrier. This potential consists of two half-circle channels separated by…

Atomtronic quantum sensors based on trapped superfluids offer a promising platform for high-precision inertial measurements where the dynamics of quantized vortices can serve as sensitive probes of external forces. We analytically…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-12 A. Chaika , A. O. Oliinyk , I. V. Yatsuta , M. Edwards , N. P. Proukakis , T. Bland , A. I. Yakimenko

Turbulence is an intriguing non-equilibrium state, which originates from fluid mechanics and has far-reaching consequences in the description of climate physics, the characterization of quantum hydrodynamics, and the understanding of cosmic…

We produce a quantum degenerate mixture composed by two Bose-Einstein condensates of different atomic species, 41 K and 87 Rb. We study the dynamics of the superfluid system in an elongated magnetic trap, where off-axis collisions between…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Modugno , M. Modugno , F. Riboli , G. Roati , M. Inguscio

We investigate the flow of a one-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger model with periodic boundary conditions past an obstacle, motivated by recent experiments with Bose--Einstein condensates in ring traps. Above certain rotation velocities,…

We examine a Bose-Einstein condensate of atoms that rotates in a quadratic-plus-quartic potential. It is shown that states of different circulation can be metastable. As a result, we demonstrate that the gas can exhibit hysteresis as the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 A. D. Jackson , G. M. Kavoulakis

A second order phase transition induced by a rapid quench can lock out topological defects with densities far exceeding their equilibrium expectation values. We use quantum kinetic theory to show that this mechanism, originally postulated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. R. Anglin , W. H. Zurek