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Tage Erlander Award Conference "Frontiers of Condensed Matter Physics"
3-8 January 2011
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Generation and Dynamics of Quantized Vortices in a Unitary Fermi Superfluid
 
Superfluidity and superconductivity are remarkable
manifestations of quantum coherence at a macroscopic scale.
The dynamics of superfluids has dominated the study of these
systems for decades now, but a comprehensive theoretical
framework is still lacking. We introduce a local extension
of the time-dependent density functional theory to describe
the dynamics of fermionic superfluids. Within this approach
one can correctly represent vortex quantization, generation,
and dynamics, the transition from a superfluid to a normal
phase and  a number of other large amplitude collective
modes which are beyond the scope of two-fluid hydrodynamics,
Ginzburg-Landau and/or Gross-Pitaevskii  approaches. We
illustrate the power of this approach by studying the
generation of quantized vortices, vortex rings, vortex
reconnection, and transition from a superfluid to a normal
state in real time for a unitary Fermi gas. We predict the
emergence of a new qualitative phenomenon in superfluid
dynamics of gases, the existence of stable superfluidity
when the systems are stirred with velocities significantly
exceeding the nominal Landau critical velocity in these syste
 
Id: 257
Place:
Room: FB54
Starting date:
07-Jan-2011   14:30
Duration: 50'
Presenters: BULGAC (U. OF WASHINGTON), Aurel
 
 

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