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)

Critical Velocity and Vortex Nucleation for Superfluid Flow Past a Finite Obstacle

13 Dec 2022, 17:30
1h 30m
Exhibition Halls F & G (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Exhibition Halls F & G

Adelaide Convention Centre

Poster AIP: Atomic and Molecular Physics Poster session

Speaker

Charlotte Quirk

Description

We characterise the emergence of vortex pairs in stationary solutions of superfluid flow past a finite obstacle, both analytically and numerically. We demonstrate how this leads to the breakdown of superfluidity at the critical velocity.

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