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Clusters of co-rotating vortices on compact fluid domains exhibit a simple collective dynamics, combining coherent global rotation with a slow breathing of the cluster size. In this work, we investigate an analytically tractable model of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-15 Aswathy KR , Rickmoy Samanta

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

Thin cylindrical membranes arise in a wide variety of biological systems ranging from tubular structures on and within cell membranes to in-vitro experiments on artificial vesicles. Motor proteins embedded in such fluidic membranes often…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-09 Udaya Maurya , Surya Teja Gavva , Arpan Saha , Rickmoy Samanta

Following recent evidence that the vortices in decaying two-dimensional turbulence can be classified into small--mobile, and large--quasi-stationary, this paper examines the evidence that the latter might be considered a `crystal' whose…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-04 Javier Jiménez

At the very heart of turbulent fluid flows are many interacting vortices that produce a chaotic and seemingly unpredictable velocity field. Gaining new insight into the complex motion of vortices and how they can lead to topological changes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-01 Karl Lydon , Sergey V. Nazarenko , Jason Laurie

We use holography to investigate the dynamics of a vortex-anti-vortex dipole in a strongly coupled superfluid in 2+1 dimensions. The system is evaluated in numerical real-time simulations in order to study the evolution of the vortices as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Carlo Ewerz , Andreas Samberg , Paul Wittmer

The superfluid flow velocity is proportional to the gradient of the phase of the superfluid order parameter, leading to the quantization of circulation around a vortex core. In this work, we study the dynamics of a superfluid film on the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-05-11 Nils-Eric Guenther , Pietro Massignan , Alexander L. Fetter

The response of superfluids to the external rotation, evidenced by emergence of quantised vortices, distinguishes them from conventional fluids. In this work, we demonstrate that the number of vortices in a stirred polariton condensate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Ivan Gnusov , Stella Harrison , Sergey Alyatkin , Kirill Sitnik , Helgi Sigurdsson , Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

We investigate vortex dipoles on surfaces of variable negative curvature, focusing on a catenoid of arbitrary throat radius as a concrete example. We construct the effective dynamical system including mutual and geometric self-interaction…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Khushi Banthia , Rickmoy Samanta

An inverse turbulent cascade in a periodic square box produces a coherent system-sized vortex dipole. We study the statistics of its motion by carrying out direct numerical simulations performed for various bottom friction $\alpha$, pumping…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-25 Vladimir Parfenyev

The dynamics and statistical properties of two-dimensional (2D) turbulence are often investigated through numerical simulations of incompressible, viscous fluids in doubly periodic domains. A key challenge in 2D turbulence research is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Mitsuaki Kimura , Takeshi Matsumoto , Takashi Sakajo , Hiroshi Takeuchi , Tomoo Yokoyama

Dynamics of vortex clusters is essential for understanding diverse superfluid phenomena. In this paper, we examine the dynamics of vortex quadrupoles in a trapped two-dimensional (2D) Bose-Einstein condensate. We find that the movement of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-09-23 Tao Yang , Zhi-Qiang Hu , Shan Zou , Wu-Ming Liu

We present a combined experimental and theoretical investigation of the formation and decay kinetics of vortices in two dimensional, compressible quantum turbulence. We follow the temporal evolution of a quantum fluid of exciton polaritons,…

Theories, simulations and experiments on vortex dynamics in quasi-two-dimensional magnetic materials are reviewed. These materials can be modelled by the classical two-dimensional anisotropic Heisenberg model with XY (easy-plane) symmetry.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 F. G. Mertens , A. R. Bishop

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

In this work, we analyze the evolution of four vortex configurations, namely, dipole, plasma, cluster, and lattice, using the two-dimensional mean-field Gross-Pitaevskii equation, focusing on their dynamical decay and approach to the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-02 Shawan K. Jha , Makoto Tsubota , Pankaj K. Mishra

By utilizing the AdS/CFT correspondence, we explore the dynamics of strongly coupled superfluid vortices in a disk with constant angular velocity. Each vortex in the vortex lattice is quantized with vorticity one from the direct inspection…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-18 Chuan-Yin Xia , Hua-Bi Zeng , Hai-Qing Zhang , Zhang-Yu Nie , Yu Tian , Xin Li

Topological techniques are used to study the motions of systems of point vortices in the infinite plane, in singly-periodic arrays, and in doubly-periodic lattices. The reduction of each system using its symmetries is described in detail.…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 Philip Boyland , Mark Stremler , Hassan Aref

Rotating clusters or vortices are formations of agents that rotate around a common center. These patterns may be found in very different contexts: from swirling fish to surveillance drones. Here, we propose a minimal model for…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-05-16 Julia Cantisán , Jesús M. Seoane , Miguel A. F. Sanjuán

The dynamics of quantum vortices in a two-dimensional annular condensate are considered by numerically simulating the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Families of solitary wave sequences are reported, both without and with a persistent flow, for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-09-27 Peter Mason , Natalia G. Berloff
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