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Quantum turbulence and multicharged vortices in trapped atomic superfluids

Santos, André Cidrim

Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP; Universidade de São Paulo; Instituto de Física de São Carlos 2017-11-22

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  • Título:
    Quantum turbulence and multicharged vortices in trapped atomic superfluids
  • Autor: Santos, André Cidrim
  • Orientador: Bagnato, Vanderlei Salvador
  • Assuntos: Condensado De Bose-Einstein; Superfluidos Atômicos; Turbulência Quântica; Vórtices Quantizados; Atomic Superfluids; Bose-Einstein Condensate; Quantized Vortices; Quantum Turbulence
  • Notas: Tese (Doutorado)
  • Descrição: In this thesis, we numerically investigate quantum turbulence in trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). We first discuss the appropriate qualitative characterization of turbulence in these systems, showing the limitation of analogies with classical hydrodynamics and turbulence in large superfluid Helium experiments. Due to their lack of available length scales, our investigated systems can only fit the ultraquantum (or Vinen) type of quantum turbulence. Secondly, we propose experimentally feasible schemes for more controlled investigations of turbulence making use of dynamical instability of multicharged vortices as an onset for complex vortex dynamics. In two dimensions, our suggested scheme allows control over vortex polarization in the harmonically trapped system. This setup is then used to study how turbulence decays in such a scenario, through the phenomenological modeling of a vortex-number rate equation. As a consequence, we were able to identify that vortex annihilation in these trapped systems happens through a four-vortex process. For three dimensions, we have first provided a study on the decay of a quadruply-charged vortex, also in a harmonically trapped BEC. Having this setting as a comparison point, we propose a quasi-isotropic turbulent system, starting from a phase-imprinted initial state of two doubly-charged, anti-parallel vortices. The vortex turbulence arisen from such configuration was shown to agree with the Vinen turbulent regime, after we characterized specific features of its decay, such as the energy spectrum [E(k) ∼ k1] and the time evolution of the vortex-line density [L(t) ∼ t1]. Although these features have been frequently verified in the context of superfluid Helium turbulence, here this identification was for the first time done for realistic, trapped atomic BECs.
  • DOI: 10.11606/T.76.2018.tde-31012018-154136
  • Editor: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP; Universidade de São Paulo; Instituto de Física de São Carlos
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2017-11-22
  • Formato: Adobe PDF
  • Idioma: Inglês
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