The nucleation and dynamics of vortices in the quasi-two-dimensional rotating dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate are explored by taking into account the Lee-Huang-Yang (LHY) correction to the mean-field (MF) theory. Assuming approximate cancellation of the MF interactions, we focus on the formation of a pure LHY superfluid. The effect of rotational frequency
Ω is investigated numerically by determining the corresponding number of stable vortices in the superfluid, together with the respective energy per particle
E and chemical potential
μ. The LHY superfluid provides a deep minimum of
E and
μ, indicating that it is a remarkably robust state of quantum matter. By fixing the LHY interaction strength, an exact single-vortex critical frequency is found, along with the respective chemical potential. A notable feature, observed when creating the LHY superfluid with fewer than five vortices, which is understood as being due to the superfluid's nonlinearity and trapping aspect ratio, is the large frequency ranges admitting the production of two and four vortices, as compared to the small frequency ranges to obtain one and three vortices.
It is known that, under appropriate conditions, mean-field interactions can be canceled in binary BEC, leading to the formation of the Lee-Huang-Yang (LHY) superfluid, in which the nonlinearity is solely represented by the quartic LHY term. In this work we systematically investigate the existence, stability and evolution of hopfion states in this species of quantum matter. They are characterized by two independent topological winding numbers: inner twist
s of the vortex-ring core and overall vorticity
m. The interplay between the LHY self-repulsion and a trapping harmonic-oscillator potential results in stability of the hopfions with
s=1 and
m ranging from
0 to
4. The hopfions exhibit distinct topological phase distributions along the vertical axis and the radial direction in the horizontal plane. Their effective radius and peak density increase with the chemical potential, along with expansion of the vortex-ring core. Although the instability domain of the hopfion modes broadens with the increase of
m, stable hopfions persist in a wide range of the chemical potential, up to
m=4, at least, provided that the norm exceeds a certain threshold value. The predictions are experimentally accessible in currently used BEC setups.