Vortex reconnections in atomic condensates at finite temperature
arXiv:1404.4557 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.90.013601
Abstract
The study of vortex reconnections is an essential ingredient of understanding superfluid turbulence, a phenomenon recently also reported in trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. In this work we show that, despite the established dependence of vortex motion on temperature in such systems, vortex reconnections are actually temperature independent on the typical length/time scales of atomic condensates. Our work is based on a dissipative Gross-Pitaevskii equation for the condensate, coupled to a semiclassical Boltzmann equation for the thermal cloud (the Zaremba-Nikuni-Griffin formalism). Comparison to vortex reconnections in homogeneous condensates further show reconnections to be insensitive to the inhomogeneity in the background density.
6 pages, 4 figures
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