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Streamlines, vortex lines and magnetic flux tubes in turbulent fluids and plasmas display a great amount of coiling, twisting and linking, raising the question as to whether their topological complexity (continually created and destroyed by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-07-09 R. G. Cooper , M. Mesgarnezhad , A. W. Baggaley , C. F. Barenghi

This article reviews recent developments in quantum fluid dynamics and quantum turbulence (QT) for superfluid helium and atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. Quantum turbulence was discovered in superfluid $^4$He in the 1950s, but the field…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Makoto Tsubota

Vortex lattices -- highly ordered arrays of vortices -- are known to arise in quantum systems such as type II superconductors and Bose-Einstein condensates. More recently, similar arrangements have been reported in classical rotating…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-09 Julián Amette Estrada , Alexandros Alexakis , Marc E. Brachet , Pablo D. Mininni

We theoretically study the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in phase-separated two-component Bose-Einstein condensates using the Gross-Pitaevskii and Bogoliubov-de Gennes models. A flat interface between the two condensates is shown to deform…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-04-08 Hiromitsu Takeuchi , Naoya Suzuki , Kenichi Kasamatsu , Hiroki Saito , Makoto Tsubota

Helicity is a topological invariant that measures the linkage and knottedness of lines, tubes and ribbons. As such, it has found myriads of applications in astrophysics and solar physics, in fluid dynamics, in atmospheric sciences, and in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-12 P. Clark di Leoni , P. D. Mininni , M. E. Brachet

Multiply quantised vortices (MQVs) within single component Bose-Einstein condensates are unstable and decay rapidly. We show that MQVs can be stabilised by adding a small number of atoms of a second species to the vortex cores, and that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-04-25 Sam Patrick , Ansh Gupta , Ruth Gregory , Carlo F. Barenghi

Dynamics of simplest vortex knots, unknots, and links of torus type inside an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in anisotropic harmonic trap at zero temperature has been numerically simulated using three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-01-04 Victor P. Ruban

Reconnections and interactions of filamentary coherent structures play a fundamental role in the dynamics of fluids, plasmas and nematic liquid crystals. In fluids, vortex reconnections redistribute energy and helicity among the length…

In this article, we review the research on the dynamics of quantized vortices in superfluid helium and rotating Bose-Einstein condensates. First, after briefly reviewing the earlier research and describing the current problems on quantized…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Makoto Tsubota , Kenichi Kasamatsu , Tsunehiko Araki

Long-time existence of topologically nontrivial configurations of quantum vortices in the form of torus knots and links in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates is demonstrated numerically within the three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Christopher Ticknor , Victor P. Ruban , P. G. Kevrekidis

The existence of quantized vortices is a key feature of Bose-Einstein condensates. In equilibrium condensates only quantum vortices of unit topological charge are stable, due to the dynamical instabilities of multiply charged defects,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-06-19 Samuel N. Alperin , Natalia G. Berloff

We prove the existence of knotted and linked thin vortex tubes for steady solutions to the incompressible Euler equation in R^3. More precisely, given a finite collection of (possibly linked and knotted) disjoint thin tubes in R^3, we show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-24 Alberto Enciso , Daniel Peralta-Salas

Quantum droplets may form out of a gaseous Bose-Einstein condensate, stabilized by quantum fluctuations beyond mean field. We show that multiple singly-quantized vortices may form in these droplets at moderate angular momenta in two…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-23 M. Nilsson Tengstrand , P. Stürmer , E. Karabulut , S. M. Reimann

The dynamics of interacting quantum vortices in a quasi-two-dimensional spatially inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein condensate, whose equilibrium density vanishes at two points of the plane with a possible presence of an immobile vortex with a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-06-01 V. P. Ruban

The hydrodynamics of quantized vortices and solitons in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate excited by an oscillating potential are studied by numerically solving the two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation. The oscillating potential keeps…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 Kazuya Fujimoto , Makoto Tsubota

Experiments on dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates have recently reported the observation of supersolidity. Although quantized vortices constitute a key probe of superfluidity, their observability in dipolar supersolids is largely prevented…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-01-04 Marija Šindik , Alessio Recati , Santo Maria Roccuzzo , Luis Santos , Sandro Stringari

Interactions and reconnections of vortices are fundamental in many areas of physics, including classical and quantum fluids where they are central to understanding phenomena such as turbulence. In three-dimensional (3D) superfluids, quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-11-26 H. A. J. Middleton-Spencer , B. McCanna , D. Proment , H. M. Price

We show numerically that a rotating, harmonically trapped mixture of two Bose-Einstein-condensed superfluids can, contrary to its single-species counterpart, contain a multiply quantized vortex in the ground state of the system. This giant…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-08-08 Pekko Kuopanportti , Natalia V. Orlova , Milorad V. Milošević

We examine on the static and dynamical properties of quantum knots in a Bose-Einstein condensate. In particular, we consider the Gross-Pitaevskii model and revise a technique to construct ab initio the condensate wave-function of a generic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-10-28 Davide Proment , Miguel Onorato , Carlo F. Barenghi

Quantum vortices with more than a single circulation quantum are usually unstable and decay into clusters of smaller vortices. One way to prevent the decay is to place the vortex at the centre of a convergent (draining) fluid flow, which…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-12 Sam Patrick