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To produce a vortex, a torque must be applied to the fluid. In viscous fluids, the torques that produce turbulent vortices result from the loss of symmetry of the stress tensor, once the viscous friction exceeds the shear stress resistance…

General Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 A. Paglietti

Intermittency is a hallmark of turbulence, which exists not only in turbulent flows of classical viscous fluids but also in flows of quantum fluids such as superfluid $^4$He. Despite the established similarity between turbulence in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-12 Emil Varga , Jian Gao , Wei Guo , Ladislav Skrbek

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

Heat is carried in superfluid He-4 by the motion of the normal fluid$^{1}$, a counterflowing superfluid component serving to eliminate any net mass flow. It has been known for many years that above a critical heat current the superfluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-07-22 Wei Guo , Sidney B. Cahn , James A. Nikkel , William F. Vinen , Daniel N. McKinsey

By utilizing the AdS/CFT correspondence, we explore the dynamics of strongly coupled superfluid vortices in a disk with constant angular velocity. Each vortex in the vortex lattice is quantized with vorticity one from the direct inspection…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-18 Chuan-Yin Xia , Hua-Bi Zeng , Hai-Qing Zhang , Zhang-Yu Nie , Yu Tian , Xin Li

We study the self-organization of spherical particles in an oscillating flow through experiments inside an oscillating box. The interactions between the particles and the time-averaged (steady streaming) flow lead to the formation of either…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-03 T. J. J. M. van Overveld , H. J. H. Clercx , M. Duran-Matute

The spontaneous formation of lattice structure of quantized vortices is a characteristic feature of superfluidity in closed systems under thermal equilibrium. In exciton-polariton Bose-Einstein condensate, which is a typical example of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-26 F. X. Sun , Z. X. Niu , Q. H. Gong , Q. Y. He , W. Zhang

We have performed measurements and numerical simulations on a bundle of vortex lines which is expanding along a rotating column of initially vortex-free 3He-B. Expanding vortices form a propagating front: Within the front the superfluid is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-03-05 V. B. Eltsov , R. de Graaf , R. Hanninen , M. Krusius , R. E. Solntsev

The properties of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a prolate cylindrically symmetric trap are explored both analytically and numerically. As the rotation frequency increases, an ever greater number of vortices are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. L. Feder , C. W. Clark

The vortex dynamics in mesoscopic superconducting cylinders with rectangular cross section under an axially applied magnetic field is investigated in the multivortex London regime. The rectangles considered range from a square up to an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Clécio C. de Souza Silva , Leonardo R. E. Cabral , J. Albino Aguiar

The motion of a neutron superfluid condensate in a pulsar is studied. Several theorems of general-relativistic hydrodynamics are proved for a superfluid. The average density distribution of vortex lines in pulsars and their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 A. A. Shatskiy

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

Large-scale motions, also known as superstructures, are dynamically relevant coherent structures in a wall-bounded turbulent flow, that span the entire domain in wall-normal direction and significantly contribute to the global energy and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-21 Sajjad Azimi , Carlo Cossu , Tobias M. Schneider

The study of superfluid quantum vortices has long been an important area of research, with previous work naturally focusing on two-dimensional and three-dimensional systems, where rotation stabilises point vortices and line vortices…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-09-20 Ben McCanna , Hannah M. Price

Superfluid condensates are known to occur in contexts ranging from laboratory liquid helium to neutron stars, and are also likely to occur in cosmological phenomena such as axion fields. In the zero temperature limit, such condensates are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Brandon Carter

An injection system for polymer particles, with diameters ranging from 1 to 6 $\mu$m, has been developed for visualizing flows in superfluid $^4$He at temperatures down to 0.14 K. Using an ultrasound transducer, bursts of particles were…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-02 C. O. Goodwin , M. J. Doyle , J. A. Hay , I. Skachko , W. Guo , P. M. Walmsley , A. I. Golov

The magnetic response is a state-defining property of superconductors. The magnetic flux penetrates type-II bulk superconductors by forming quantum vortices when the enclosed magnetic flux is equal to the magnetic flux quantum. The flux…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-06 Yusuke Iguchi , Ruby Shi , Kunihiro Kihou , Chul-Ho Lee , Vadim Grinenko , Egor Babaev , Kathryn A. Moler

We study numerically the formation of a vortex lattice inside a rotating bucket containing superfluid helium, paying attention to an important feature which is practically unavoidable in all experiments: the microscopic roughness of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-22 N. A. Keepfer , G. W. Stagg , L. Galantucci , C. F. Barenghi , N. G. Parker

The dynamics of the forward vortex cascade in 2D turbulence in a superfluid film is investigated using analytic techniques. The cascade is formed by injecting pairs with the same initial separation (the stirring scale) at a constant rate.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 Andrew Forrester , Gary A. Williams

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