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Studies of quantum thermal effects on molecular excitation dynamics have often relied on oversimplified models, such as energy eigenstates or low-dimensional potentials, which fail to capture the complexity of real chemical systems. In…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Yankai Zhang , Yoshitaka Tanimura , So Hirata

A key manifestation of superfluidity in liquids and gases is a reduction of the moment of inertia under slow rotations. Non-classical rotational effects have been searched for a long time also for the elusive supersolid phase of matter, in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-03-15 L. Tanzi , J. G. Maloberti , G. Biagioni , A. Fioretti , C. Gabbanini , G. Modugno

Using quantum equations of motion for interacting bosons, stochastic molecular dynamics simulations with quantized momenta are performed for Lennard-Jones helium-4. The viscosity of the quantum liquid is significantly less than that of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-02-17 Phil Attard

Thermal fluctuations tend to destroy long-range phase correlations. Consequently, bosons in a lattice will undergo a transition from a phase-coherent superfluid as the temperature rises. Contrary to common intuition, however, we show that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-17 Andrew Robertson , Victor M. Galitski , Gil Refael

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

Low dimensional quantum fluids, where one can probe the effects of enhanced thermal and quantum fluctuations on macroscopic quantum wavefunctions, can be experimentally realized through transverse physical confinement of superfluid helium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Sutirtha Paul , Taras Lakoba , Paul E. Sokol , Adrian Del Maestro

The system of electrons trapped in vacuum above the liquid helium surface displays the highest mobilities known in condensed matter physics. We provide a brief summary of the experimental and theoretical results obtained for this system. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 M. I. Dykman , P. M. Platzman

The morphology of rotating viscous classical liquid droplets has been extensively studied and is well understood. However, our understanding of rotating superfluid droplets remains limited. For instance, superfluid $^4$He (He II) can carry…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-27 Sosuke Inui , Faezeh Ahangar , Wei Guo

Superfluid helium is a prototypical quantum liquid. As such, it has been a prominent platform for the study of quantum many body physics. More recently, the outstanding mechanical and optical properties of superfluid helium, such as low…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-28 Alexander R. Korsch , Niccolò Fiaschi , Simon Gröblacher

Decoherent quantum equations of motion are derived that yield the trajectory of an open quantum system. The viscosity of superfluid Lennard-Jones helium-4 is obtained with a quantum stochastic molecular dynamics algorithm. The momentum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-14 Phil Attard

The rotational response of quantum condensed fluids is strikingly distinct from rotating classical fluids, especially notable for the excitation and ordering of quantized vortex ensembles. Although widely studied in conservative systems,…

Kinetics of dislocations is studied by means of computer simulation during intensive plastic deformation. The dynamical effect in the form of soliton-like wave of sharply disrupted interparticle bonds is observed. Along with it, micropores…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 L. S. Metlov

Hydrodynamic flow in both classical and quantum fluids can be either laminar or turbulent. To describe the latter, vortices in turbulent flow are modelled with stable vortex filaments. While this is an idealization in classical fluids,…

Short laser pulses are widely used for controlling molecular rotational degrees of freedom and inducing molecular alignment, orientation, unidirectional rotation and other types of coherent rotational motion. To follow the ultra-fast…

We show by direct numerical simulations that the turbulence generated by steadily heating a long cylinder immersed in helium~II is strongly inhomogeneous and consists of a dense turbulent layer of quantized vortices localized around the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-06 E. Rickinson , C. F. Barenghi , Y. A. Sergeev , A. W. Baggaley

Recent experiments on the coupling of the in-plane motional state of electrons floating on the surface of liquid helium to a microwave resonator have revealed the importance of helium surface fluctuations to the coherence of this motion.…

Suspended aluminium nanoelectromechanical resonators have been fabricated, and the manufacturing process is described in this work. Device motion is driven and detected with a magnetomotive method. The resonance response has been measured…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-30 T. Kamppinen , V. B. Eltsov

It is shown that the drastic distinction in the rotational structure of molecules in the He4 and He3 liquids observed in [1] is due to the difference in the spectral density of excitations regardless of the hydrodynamic properties. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. S. Babichenko , Yu. Kagan

Vortices are topological defects associated with superfluids and superconductors, which, when mobile, dissipate energy destroying the dissipation-less nature of the superfluid. The nature of this "quantum dissipation" is rooted in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-10 Wei-Can Yang , Chuan-Yin Xia , Hua-Bi Zeng , Makoto Tsubota , Jan Zaanen

Cooling the rotation and the vibration of molecules by broadband light sources was possible for trapped molecular ions or ultracold molecules. Because of a low power spectral density, the cooling timescale has never fell below than a few…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 A. Cournol , P. Pillet , H. Lignier , D. Comparat