Statistical mechanics of systems with negative temperature

M Baldovin, S Iubini, R Livi, A Vulpiani - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Do negative absolute temperatures matter physics and specifically Statistical Physics? We
provide evidence that we can certainly answer positively to this vexata quaestio. The great …

Dynamics of a massive superfluid vortex in confining potentials

A Richaud, P Massignan, V Penna, AL Fetter - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
We study the motion of a superfluid vortex in condensates having different background
density profiles, ranging from parabolic to uniform. The resulting effective point-vortex model …

Exploring pulsar glitches with dipolar supersolids

T Bland, F Ferlaino, M Mannarelli, E Poli, S Trabucco - Few-Body Systems, 2024 - Springer
Glitches are sudden spin-up events that interrupt the gradual spin-down of rotating neutron
stars. They are believed to arise from the rapid unpinning of vortices in the neutron star inner …

Turbulent relaxation to equilibrium in a two-dimensional quantum vortex gas

MT Reeves, K Goddard-Lee, G Gauthier, OR Stockdale… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
We experimentally study the emergence of microcanonical equilibrium states in the turbulent
relaxation dynamics of a two-dimensional chiral vortex gas. Same-sign vortices are injected …

Critical transport and vortex dynamics in a thin atomic Josephson junction

K Xhani, E Neri, L Galantucci, F Scazza, A Burchianti… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We study the onset of dissipation in an atomic Josephson junction between Fermi
superfluids in the molecular Bose-Einstein condensation limit of strong attraction. Our …

Precursory patterns to vortex nucleation in stirred Bose-Einstein condensates

J Rønning, L Angheluta - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
Within the Gross-Pitaevskii theory, we study precursory pattern formations to the nucleation
of vortex dipoles in a two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate stirred by a Gaussian …

Polygons of quantized vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates with a circular trap

A Paredes, JR Salgueiro, H Michinel - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
We consider a disk-shaped cold atom Bose-Einstein condensate with repulsive atom-atom
interactions within a circular trap, described by a two-dimensional time-dependent Gross …

Vortex mass in a superfluid

T Simula - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
We consider the inertial mass of a vortex in a superfluid. We obtain a vortex mass that is well
defined and is determined microscopically and self-consistently by the elementary excitation …

Minimum critical velocity of a Gaussian obstacle in a Bose-Einstein condensate

H Kwak, JH Jung, Y Shin - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
When a superfluid flows past an obstacle, quantized vortices can be created in the wake
above a certain critical velocity. In the experiment by Kwon et al.[Phys. Rev. A 91, 053615 …

Self-trapping of vortex crystals via competing nonlinearities

A Paredes, H Michinel - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
We investigate the existence of self-trapped nonlinear waves with multiple phase
singularities. Working with the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation, we focus on …