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Superfluid 3He-A displays the largest variety in vortex structure among the presently known coherent quantum systems. The experimentally verified information comes mostly from NMR measurements on the rotating fluid, from which the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Blaauwgeers , V. B. Eltsov , M. Krusius , J. Ruohio , R. Schanen

Turbulence in curved spacetimes in general, and in the vicinity of black holes (BHs) in particular, represents a poorly understood phenomenon that is often analysed employing techniques developed for flat spacetimes. We here propose a novel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Rita Megale , Alejandro Cruz-Osorio , Giuseppe Ficarra , Mario Imbrogno , Claudio Meringolo , Leonardo Primavera , Luciano Rezzolla , Sergio Servidio

We consider superfluid hydrodynamics of two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates. Interpreting the curvature of the macroscopic condensate wavefunction as an effective gravity in such a superfluid universe, we argue for a superfluid…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-01 Tapio Simula

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

We present numerical evidence that Kelvin waves (KWs) on quantized vortices in superfluid helium can be directly observed in the normal fluid component at finite temperatures. Using the Fully cOUpled loCAl model of sUperfLuid Turbulence…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-14 Simone Scollo , Luca Galantucci , Giorgio Krstulovic

Draining vortices provide a powerful platform for simulating black hole phenomena in tabletop experiments. In realistic fluid systems confined within a finite container, low-frequency waves amplified by the vortex are reflected at the…

In general relativity, the interaction between a black hole and the fields around it (a process known as backreaction) proceeds via the evolution of the black holes mass and angular momentum. Analogue models of gravity, particularly fluid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Sam Patrick , Harry Goodhew , Cisco Gooding , Silke Weinfurtner

Simulation of a sonic black-hole/white-hole pair in a (2+1)-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate shows formation of superfluid vortices through dynamical instabilities seeded by initial quantum noise. The instabilities saturate in a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-05-12 R. Bürkle , A. Gaidoukov , J. R. Anglin

We study scattering on the black hole horizon in a partial wave basis, with an impact parameter of the order of the Schwarzschild radius or less. This resembles the strong gravity regime where quantum gravitational effects appear. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-11 Nava Gaddam , Nico Groenenboom , Gerard 't Hooft

In this note we demonstrate that vortices in a non-relativistic Chern-Simons theory form a quantum Hall fluid. We show that the vortex dynamics is controlled by the matrix mechanics previously proposed by Polychronakos as a description of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 David Tong

Theory of superfluid $^4$He shows that, due to strong correlations and backflow effects, the density profile of a vortex line has the character of a density modulation and it is not a simple rarefaction region as found in clouds of cold…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-11 Ivan Amelio , Davide Emilio Galli , Luciano Reatto

By combining experiments and numerical simulations which model the dynamics of shaken atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, we reveal the surprising nature of quantum turbulence in these systems. Unlike the tangles of vortex lines described in…

Spinorial or multi-component Bose-Einstein condensates may sustain fractional quanta of circulation, vorticant topological excitations with half integer windings of phase and polarization. Matter-light quantum fluids, such as microcavity…

We investigate the properties of highly compressible turbulence, the compressibility arising from a small effective polytropic exponent $\gamma_e$ due to cooling. In the limit of small $\gamma_e$, the density jump at shocks is shown to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Vazquez-Semadeni , T. Passot , A. Pouquet

Entangled vortex filaments are essential to turbulence, serving as coherent structures that govern nonlinear fluid dynamics and support the reconstruction of fluid fields to reveal statistical properties. This study introduces an quantum…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-08 Chenjia Zhu , Ziteng Wang , Shiying Xiong , Yaomin Zhao , Yue Yang

A rotating stationary solution of the vacuum Einstein equations with a cosmological constant is exhibited which reduces to de Sitter's interior cosmological solution when the angular momentum goes to zero. This solution is locally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-10 G. F. Chapline , P. Marecki

We report on the first mathematically rigorous proofs of a transition to a giant vortex state of a superfluid in rotating anharmonic traps. The analysis is carried out within two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii theory at large coupling…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-01 M. Correggi , F. Pinsker , N. Rougerie , J. Yngvason

Multiscale organization is a hallmark of fluid turbulence in aerospace, energy, and transport systems. While quantum computing promises exponential speedups for solving the evolution equations governing flow fields, this potential is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Zhaoyuan Meng , Xiao-Ming Zhang , Xiao Yuan , Yue Yang

The interplay between quantum fluctuation and spacetime curvature is shown to induce an additional quantum-curvature (QC) term in the energy-momentum tensor of fluid using the generalized framework of the stochastic variational method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 T. Koide , T. Kodama

This Letter investigates the formation of quantum droplets in curved spacetime, highlighting the significant influence of curvature on the formation and properties of these objects. While our computations encompass various dimensions, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-18 Antonino Flachi , Takahiro Tanaka