Vortex Rings in a Trap

Abstract

We present a simple Hamiltonian description of the dynamics of a quantized vortex ring in a trapped superfluid, compare this description with dynamical simulations, and characterize the dependence of the dynamics of the shape of the trap.

3 pages, 1 figure

References in corpus (1)

• Hydrodynamic theory of motion of quantized vortex rings in trapped superfluid gases