Superfluid vortex waves

Rena J. Zieve, Josephine Spiegelberg, Andrew Diggs

Luca Galantucci, Michele Sciacca

M. L. Leadbeater, David C. Samuels, Carlo F. Barenghi +1 more

The decay of superfluid turbulence in the limit of low temperature is studied by numerical simulations of vortex ring collisions. In particular we excite Kelvin waves and study the loss of vortex line length due to Kelvin-wave radiation. Although the effect is small, the decay constant is not inconsistent with recent experiments on vortex lattices in dilute Bose-Einstein condensates, and on superfluid turbulence in helium at very low temperature. We also consider the character of the decay when both vortex reconnections and Kelvin-wave radiation are present.

Lucy J. Campbell

Sandeep Gautam

We theoretically investigate the generation of the vortex dipoles in superfluid Fermi gas in the BCS limit. The vortex dipoles are generated in superfluid either by moving an obstacle above a critical speed or due to the decay of the shock waves obtained on the sudden mixing of two superfluid fragments. We observe that in pancake-shaped traps, the shock waves can lead to the formation of density ripples, which decay into vortex dipoles due to the onset of snake instability.

Carlos Wexler