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Shell-shaped hollow Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) exhibit behavior distinct from their filled counterparts and have recently attracted attention due to their potential realization in microgravity settings. Here we study distinct features…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-11-03 Karmela Padavić , Kuei Sun , Courtney Lannert , Smitha Vishveshwara

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

For many years, $^4$He typified Bose-Einstein superfluids, but recent advances in dilute ultra-cold alkali-metal gases have provided new neutral superfluids that are particularly tractable because the system is dilute. This chapter starts…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-03-15 Alexander L. Fetter , Christopher J. Foot

Laboratory observations of vortex dynamics in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) are essential for determination of many aspects of superfluid dynamics in these systems. We present a novel application of dark-field imaging that enables…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-19 Kali E. Wilson , Zachary L. Newman , Joseph D. Lowney , Brian P. Anderson

The true character of physical phenomena is thought to be reinforced as the system becomes disorder-free. In contrast, the two-dimensional (2D) superconductor is predicted to turn fragile and resistive away from the limit I -> 0, B -> 0, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Sreevidya Narayanan , Anoop Kamalasanan , Annu Anns Sunny , Madhu Thalakulam

We study continuous interaction of a trapped two-component Bose-Einstein condensate with light fields in a $\Lambda$-type configuration. Using light beams with orbital angular momentum, we theoretically show how to create a stable, pinned…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-15 Y. Braver , D. Burba , S. S. Nair , G. Žlabys , E. Anisimovas , Th. Busch , G. Juzeliūnas

Coherently coupled two-component Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) exhibit vortex confinement resembling quark confinement in Quantum Chromo Dynamics (QCD). Fractionally quantized vortices winding only in one of two components are attached by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-09-16 Minoru Eto , Kazuki Ikeno , Muneto Nitta

We review recent important topics in quantized vortices and quantum turbulence in atomic Bose--Einstein condensates (BECs). They have previously been studied for a long time in superfluid helium. Quantum turbulence is currently one of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-01-19 M. Tsubota , K. Kasamatsu

Rapid new developments have occurred in superfluid hydrodynamics since the discovery of a host of unusual phenomena which arise from the diverse structure and dynamics of quantized vortices in 3He superfluids. These have been studied in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-02-28 A. P. Finne , V. B. Eltsov , R. Hanninen , N. B. Kopnin , J. Kopu , M. Krusius , M. Tsubota , G. E. Volovik

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

A recent experiment has shown that a tangle of quantized vortices in superfluid $^4$He decayed even at mK temperatures where the normal fluid was negligible and no mutual friction worked. Motivated by this experiment, this work studies…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Makoto Tsubota , Tsunehiko Araki , Sergey K. Nemirovskii

We derive, from the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, an exact expression for the velocity of any vortex in a Bose-Einstein condensate, in equilibrium or not, in terms of the condensate wave function at the center of the vortex. In general, the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Halvor M. Nilsen , Gordon Baym , C. J. Pethick

We have observed and characterized the dynamics of singly quantized vortices in dilute-gas Bose-Einstein condensates. Our condensates are produced in a superposition of two internal states of 87Rb, with one state supporting a vortex and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 B. P. Anderson , P. C. Haljan , C. E. Wieman , E. A. Cornell

We present an extensive numerical study of vortex matter using the mapping to 2D bosons and Path-Integral Monte Carlo simulations. We find a first-order vortex lattice melting transition into an entangled vortex liquid. The jumps in entropy…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Nordborg , G. Blatter

Vortices in fluids and superfluids are fundamental to phenomena ranging from Bose-Einstein condensates and superfluid films to neutron stars and hydrodynamic micro-rotors, where background geometry often plays an important role. Curvature…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Gaurang Mangesh Joshi , Rickmoy Samanta

We derive a set of equations that describe the shape and behaviour of a single perturbed vortex line in a Bose-Einstein condensate. Through the use of a matched asymptotic expansion and a unique coordinate transform a relation for a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-30 Lyndon Koens , Andrew M. Martin

Doubly quantized vortices were topologically imprinted in $|F=1>$ $^{23}$Na condensates, and their time evolution was observed using a tomographic imaging technique. The decay into two singly quantized vortices was characterized and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Shin , M. Saba , M. Vengalattore , T. A. Pasquini , C. Sanner , A. E. Leanhardt , M. Prentiss , D. E. Pritchard , W. Ketterle

Recently observed signatures of Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity of dipolar excitons have drawn enormous attention to excitonic semiconductor bilayers. In superfluids, stabilization and observation of vortex matter is usually a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-29 Sara Conti , Andrey Chaves , Luis A. Pena Ardila , David Neilson , Milorad V. Milosevic

A quantum vortex dipole, comprised of a closely bound pair of vortices of equal strength with opposite circulation, is a spatially localized travelling excitation of a planar superfluid that carries linear momentum, suggesting a possible…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-03-13 Michael M. Cawte , Xiaoquan Yu , Brian P. Anderson , Ashton S. Bradley

The dynamics of vortex lattices in stirred Bose-Einstein condensates have been studied at finite temperatures. The decay of the vortex lattice was observed non-destructively by monitoring the centrifugal distortions of the rotating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 J. R. Abo-Shaeer , C. Raman , W. Ketterle