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Rotation of a container holding a viscous fluid forms a vortex which grows with increasing angular velocity. A superfluid, however, is intrinsically different from these normal fluids because its rotation is quantized. Even if a container…

Vortices in a one-component dilute atomic ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) usually arise as a response to externally driven rotation. Apart from a few special situations, these vortices are singly quantized with unit circulation.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-24 Alexander L. Fetter

We investigate the turbulent properties of a confined driven-dissipative polariton quantum fluid after a pulsed excitation. Using numerical simulations, we provide insight into the vortex clustering processes that emerge during the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-04-08 P. Comaron , R. Panico , D. Ballarini , M. Matuszewski

We study a novel phase of active polar fluids, which is characterized by the continuous creation and destruction of dense clusters due to self-sustained turbulence. This state arises due to the interplay of the self-advection of the aligned…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-12 Vasco M. Worlitzer , Gil Ariel , Avraham Be'er , Holger Stark , Markus Bär , Sebastian Heidenreich

Realistic methods to create vortices in spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates are discussed. It is shown that, contrary to common intuition, rotation of the trap containing a spin-orbit condensate does not lead to an equilibrium…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-29 Juraj Radic , Tigran Sedrakyan , Ian Spielman , Victor Galitski

We predict that the transverse electric-magnetic polarization splitting of exciton-polaritons allows a simple technique for the generation of polariton vortices of winding number 2 in semiconductor microcavities. The vortices can be excited…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 T C H Liew , A V Kavokin , I A Shelykh

Polariton condensation can be regarded as a self-organization phenomenon, where phase ordering is established among particles in the system. In such condensed systems, further ordering can possibly occur in the particle density…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-19 F. Manni , K. G. Lagoudakis , T. C. H. Liew , R. André , B. Deveaud-Plédran

Properly polarized and correctly timed femtosecond laser pulses have been demonstrated to create rotational states with a preferred sense of rotation. We show that due to conservation of angular momentum, collisional relaxation of these…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-04 Uri Steinitz , Yehiam Prior , Ilya Sh. Averbukh

We study the creation of vortices by triggering the rotating Bose-Einstein condensates in a toroidal trap with trap parameters such as laser beam waist and Gaussian potential depth. By numerically solving the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-12-28 M. Arivazhagan , P. Muruganandam , N. Athavan

Optically pumping high quality semiconductor microcavities allows for the spontaneous formation of polariton condensates, which can propagate over distances of many microns. Tightly focussed pump spots here are found to produce expanding…

We numerically model experiments in which large-scale vortex rings - bundles of quantized vortex loops - are created in superfluid helium by a piston-cylinder arrangement. We show that the presence of a normal fluid vortex ring together…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-23 Daniel H. Wacks , Andrew W. Baggaley , Carlo F. Barenghi

Exciton-polariton condensates display a variety of intriguing pattern-forming behaviors, particularly when confined in potential traps. It has previously been predicted that triangular lattices of vortices of the same sign will form…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-08-28 Magnus O. Borgh , Guido Franchetti , Jonathan Keeling , Natalia G. Berloff

Motivated by the recent experiment at ENS [ V. Bretin, S. Stock, Y. Seurin and, J. Dalibard, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 92}, 050403 (2004)], we study a rotating (non-)interacting atomic Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Tarun Kanti Ghosh

Turbulent phenomena are among the most striking effects that both classical and quantum fluids can exhibit. While classical turbulence is ubiquitous in nature, the observation of quantum turbulence requires the precise manipulation of…

We study the formation of caustics in vortex-dominated \flows. We \find that only particles starting within a critical distance of a vortex which scales as the square roots of the particle inertia and the circulation can form sling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Ravichandran , Rama Govindarajan

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…

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

Vorticity generated in heavy-ion collisions at energy of $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$ 39 GeV is studied. Simulations are performed within a model of the three-fluid dynamics. A peculiar structure consisting of two vortex rings is found: one ring in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-05-04 Yu. B. Ivanov , A. A. Soldatov

We model generation of vortex modes in exciton-polariton condensates in semiconductor micropillars, arranged into a hexagonal ring molecule, in the presence of TE-TM splitting. This splitting lifts the degeneracy of azimuthally modulated…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-10-12 Xuekai Ma , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Alexey Kavokin , Stefan Schumacher

We point out an intriguing possibility that there exist topological soliton-like excitations in nuclei with $\alpha$ cluster condensation. The excitations are vortices in superfluid, a property possessed by such Bose condensed nuclei. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Aiichi Iwazaki