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We report on the free decay of quasi-two-dimensional turbulence in superfluid $^4$He confined within nanofluidic channels. Using a pump-probe technique, we observe a complex decay of the vortex density $L(t)$ that deviates from a simple…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-04 Filip Novotný , Marek Talíř , Emil Varga

The dynamics of quantized magnetic vortices and their pinning by materials defects determine electromagnetic properties of superconductors, particularly their ability to carry non-dissipative currents. Despite recent advances in the…

We employ the Gross--Pitaevskii theory to model a quantized vortex depinning from a small obstacle in a two-dimensional superfluid due to an imposed background superfluid flow. We find that, when the flow's velocity exceeds a critical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-06-24 I-Kang Liu , Srivatsa B. Prasad , Andrew W. Baggaley , Carlo F. Barenghi , Toby S. Wood

Although the stability properties of the wake past impervious bluff bodies have been widely examined in the literature, similar analyses regarding the flow around and through porous ones are still lacking. In this work, the effect of the…

We use large-scale parallel simulations to compute the motion of superconducting magnetic vortices during avalanches triggered by small field increases. We find that experimentally observable voltage bursts correspond to pulsing vortex…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 C. J. Olson , C. Reichhardt , J. Groth , Stuart B. Field , Franco Nori

Vortices driven with both a transverse and a longitudinal AC drive which are out of phase are shown to exhibit a novel commensuration-incommensuration effect when interacting with periodic substrates. For different AC driving parameters,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson

We describe a numerical investigation of a continuum model of an active nematic, concentrating on the regime of active turbulence. Results are presented for the effect of three parameters, activity, elastic constant and rotational diffusion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-18 Sumesh P. Thampi , Ramin Golestanian , Julia M. Yeomans

Pinning of superfluid vortices to magnetic flux tubes in the outer core of a neutron star supports a velocity difference of $\sim 10^5$ \cms\ between the neutron superfluid and the proton-electron fluid as the star spins down. Under the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Bennett Link

The superfluid density is calculated theoretically for incompressible vortex lattices in two dimensions that have isolated dislocations quenched in by a random arrangement of pinned vortices. The latter are assumed to be sparse and to be…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 J. P. Rodriguez

Pinning of superfluid vortices to the nuclear lattice of the inner crust of a neutron star supports a velocity difference between the superfluid and the solid as the star spins down. Under the Magnus force that arises on the vortex lattice,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Bennett Link

We theoretically investigate the correlated decoherence dynamics of two mobile impurities trapped within a gas of ultracold fermionic atoms. We use a mean-field approximation to self-consistently describe the effect of impurity-gas…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-06 Sindre Brattegard , Thomás Fogarty , Thomas Busch , Mark T. Mitchison

We study theoretically the instability of countersuperflow, i.e., two counterpropagating miscible superflows, in uniform two-component Bose-Einstein condensates. Countersuperflow instability causes mutual friction between the superfluids,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-06-07 Shungo Ishino , Makoto Tsubota , Hiromitsu Takeuchi

Using computer simulations, we demonstrate a new type of commensurability that occurs for vortices moving longitudinally through periodic pinning arrays in the presence of an additional transverse driving force. As a function of vortex…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

The flux lines dynamics have been investigated on MgB2 bulk superconductors obtained by reactive liquid infiltration by measuring the ac magnetic susceptibility. The fundamental and third harmonics have been studied as a function of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Senatore , M. Polichetti , D. Zola , T. Di Matteo , G. Giunchi , S. Pace

We show that in a dilute Fermionic superfluid, when the Fermions interact with an infinite scattering length, a vortex state is characterized by a strong density depletion along the vortex core. This feature can make a direct visualization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Aurel Bulgac , Yongle Yu

One of the most promising routes for achieving unprecedentedly high critical currents in superconductors is to incorporate dispersed, non-superconducting nanoparticles to control the dissipative motion of vortices. However, these inclusions…

We characterize the dynamical instability responsible for the breakdown of regular rows and necklaces of quantized vortices that appear at the interface between two superfluids in relative motion. Making use of a generalized point-vortex…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-09-12 Matteo Caldara , Andrea Richaud , Massimo Capone , Pietro Massignan

We study thermal effects on pinning and creep in type-II superconductors where vortices interact with a low density $n_p$ of strong point-like defects with pinning energy $e_p$ and extension $\xi$, the vortex core size. Defects are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-10 Martin Buchacek , Vadim B. Geshkenbein , Roland Willa , Gianni Blatter

Whether it occurs in superconductors, helium-3 or inside a neutron star, fermionic superfluidity requires pairing of fermions, particles with half-integer spin. For an equal mixture of two states of fermions ("spin up" and "spin down"),…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin W. Zwierlein , André Schirotzek , Christian H. Schunck , Wolfgang Ketterle

We investigate the effective interaction between two localized spin impurities embedded in a frustrated spin-1/2 $J_1\!-\!J_2$ Heisenberg chain. Treating the impurity spins as classical moments coupled locally to the host, we combine…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-25 Maksymilian Kliczkowski , Jakub Grabowski , Maciej M. Maśka