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The many faces of rotating quantum turbulence
Julian A Estrada1, Marc E Brachet2, Pablo Mininni3
1Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de FÃ-sica, Ciudad Universitaria , 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Abstract:
Quantum turbulence shares many similarities with classical turbulence in the isotropic and homogeneous case, despite the inviscid and quantized nature of its vortices. However, when quantum fluids are subjected to rotation, their turbulent dynamics depart significantly from the classical expectations. We explore the phenomenology of rotating quantum turbulence, emphasizing how rotation introduces new regimes with no classical analogues. We review recent theoretical, experimental and numerical developments, and present new numerical results that map out distinct dynamical regimes arising from the interplay of rotation, quantization, nonlinearities and condensed matter regimes. In particular, we show the importance of distinguishing the dynamics of rotating quantum fluids in the slowly rotating, rapidly rotating and low Landau level regimes. The findings have implications for the dynamics of liquid helium, atomic Bose-Einstein condensates and neutron stars, and show how rotating quantum fluids can serve as a unique platform bridging turbulence theory and condensed matter physics, revealing novel states of out-of-equilibrium quantum matter. This article is part of the theme issue 'Frontiers of turbulence and statistical physics'.
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