11–16 Dec 2022
Australia/Adelaide timezone
Co-locating with the 7th International Workshop of Specialty Optical Fibres and Their Applications (WSOF), the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD)

Mutual friction and diffusion of two-dimensional quantum vortices

12 Dec 2022, 14:30
15m
Room R4 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Room R4

Adelaide Convention Centre

Talk (preferred) AIP: Atomic and Molecular Physics AIP: Atomic and Molecular Physics

Speaker

Zain Mehdi (The Australian National University)

Description

We present a microscopic theory of thermally-damped vortex motion in oblate atomic superfluids, providing a microscopic origin for the damping and Brownian motion of quantized vortices in two-dimensional atomic superfluids, which has previously been limited to phenomenology.

Author

Zain Mehdi (The Australian National University)

Co-authors

Ashton Bradley (University of Otago) Joseph Hope (The Australian National University) Stuart Szigeti (The Australian National University)

Presentation materials