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Decay of quantised vorticity by sound emission

C. F. Barenghi, N. G. Parker, N. P. Proukakis, C. S. Adams

cond-mat.otherarXiv:cond-mat/0405635

Abstract

It is thought that in a quantum fluid sound generation is the ultimate sink of turbulent kinetic energy in the absence of any other dissipation mechanism near absolute zero. We show that a suitably trapped Bose-Einstein condensate provides a model system to study the sound emitted by accelerating vortices in a controlled way.

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