Search results for "Superfluidity"
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Generalization of Vinen’s equation including transition to superfluid turbulence
2005
A phenomenological generalization of the well known Vinen equation for the evolution of vortex line density in superfluid counterflow turbulence is proposed. This generalization includes nonlinear production terms in the counterflow velocity and corrections depending on the diameter of the tube. The equation provides a unified framework for the various phenomena (stationary states and transitions) present in counterflow superfluid turbulence: in fact, it is able to describe the laminar regime, the first-order transition from laminar to turbulent TI state, the two turbulent states, the transition from TI to TII turbulent states, and it yields a slower decay of the counterflow turbulence than…
Quasi-Two-Dimensional Superfluid Fermionic Gases
2005
We study a quasi two-dimensional superfluid Fermi gas where the confinement in the third direction is due to a strong harmonic trapping. We investigate the behavior of such a system when the chemical potential is varied and find strong modifications of the superfluid properties due to the discrete harmonic oscillator states. We show that such quasi two-dimensional behavior can be created and observed with current experimental capabilities.
Observation of a superfluid component within solid helium.
2011
We demonstrate by neutron scattering that a localized superfluid component exists at high pressures within solid helium in aerogel. Its existence is deduced from the observation of two sharp phonon-roton spectra which are clearly distinguishable from modes in bulk superfluid helium. These roton excitations exhibit different roton gap parameters than the roton observed in the bulk fluid at freezing pressure. One of the roton modes disappears after annealing the samples. Comparison with theoretical calculations suggests that the model that reproduces the observed data best is that of superfluid double layers within the solid and at the helium-substrate interface.
Probing number squeezing of ultracold atoms across the superfluid-Mott insulator transition.
2005
The evolution of on-site number fluctuations of ultracold atoms in optical lattices is experimentally investigated by monitoring the suppression of spin-changing collisions across the superfluid-Mott insulator transition. For low atom numbers, corresponding to an average filling factor close to unity, large on-site number fluctuations are necessary for spin-changing collisions to occur. The continuous suppression of spin-changing collisions is thus a direct evidence for the emergence of number-squeezed states. In the Mott insulator regime, we find that spin-changing collisions are suppressed until a threshold atom number, consistent with the number where a Mott plateau with doubly-occupied …
Nonequilibrium effective temperature of superfluid vortex tangle
2006
An effective nonequilibrium temperature in counterflow superfluid turbulence is proposed, as a parameter characterizing a canonical probability distribution function of vortex orientation, and relating the diffusion coefficient of vortex lines to the vortex friction through an Einstein relation.
Supersolid-superfluid phase separation in the extended Bose-Hubbard model
2021
Recent studies have suggested a new phase in the extended Bose-Hubbard model in one dimension at integer filling [1,2]. In this work, we show that this new phase is phase-separated into a supersolid and superfluid part, generated by mechanical instability. Numerical simulations are performed by means of the density matrix renormalization group algorithm in terms of matrix product states. In the phase-separated phase and the adjacent homogeneous superfluid and supersolid phases, we find peculiar spatial patterns in the entanglement spectrum and string-order correlation functions and show that they survive in the thermodynamic limit. In particular, we demonstrate that the elementary excitatio…
Laser-induced collective excitations in a two-component Fermi gas
2002
We consider the linear density response of a two-component (superfluid) Fermi gas of atoms when the perturbation is caused by laser light. We show that various types of laser excitation schemes can be transformed into linear density perturbations, however, a Bragg spectroscopy scheme is needed for transferring energy and momentum into a collective mode. This makes other types of laser probing schemes insensitive for collective excitations and therefore well suited for the detection of the superfluid order parameter. We show that for the special case when laser light is coupled between the two components of the Fermi gas, density response is always absent in a homogeneous system.
Turbulent Superfluid Profiles in a Counterflow Channel
2010
We have developed a two-dimensional model of quantised vortices in helium II moving under the influence of applied normal fluid and superfluid in a counterflow channel. We predict superfluid and vortex-line density profiles which could be experimentally tested using recently developed visualization techniques.
Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory of polarized Fermi systems
2008
Condensed Fermi systems with an odd number of particles can be described by means of polarizing external fields having a time-odd character. We illustrate how this works for Fermi gases and atomic nuclei treated by density functional theory or Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) theory. We discuss the method based on introducing two chemical potentials for different superfluid components, whereby one may change the particle-number parity of the underlying quasiparticle vacuum. Formally, this method is a variant of non-collective cranking, and the procedure is equivalent to the so-called blocking. We present and exemplify relations between the two-chemical-potential method and the cranking approxi…
Extended thermodynamics and superfluidity
1984
Exploitation des consequences de la thermodynamique generalisee en appliquant ses equations a un gaz de Bose degenere ou la condensation de Bose-Einstein a lieu. Formes particulieres de ces equations, qui gouvernent la dissipation, pour 4 He. Equation du second son