Kolmogorov number in a turbulent Bose gas

ORAL

Abstract

Turbulence phenomena are present in a vast variety of physical systems, from water waves to the early universe. We use a homogeneous Bose gas of 39K to study turbulent cascades, in which energy injected at the low-momentum scale is transported in momentum space with constant energy flux towards higher momenta. This leads to a scale-invariant momentum distribution defined by the so-called Kolmogorov exponent and Kolmogorov number, the amplitude. Here we investigate the dependence of the Kolmogorov number on the transported energy flux, and observe universal relations in agreement with the theoretical predictions for wave turbulence.

*supported by EPSRC and ERC (QBox)

Presenters

  • Lena Dogra

    • Univ of Cambridge
    • University of Cambridge

Authors

  • Lena Dogra

    • Univ of Cambridge
    • University of Cambridge
  • Timon Hilker

    • Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
    • Univ of Cambridge
  • Jake A Glidden

    • Univ of Cambridge
    • University of Cambridge
  • Gevorg Martirosyan

    • Univ of Cambridge
    • University of Cambridge
  • Christoph Eigen

    • Univ of Cambridge
    • University of Cambridge
  • Jiri Etrych

    • Univ of Cambridge
    • University of Cambridge
  • Robert Smith

    • University of Oxford
    • Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
  • Zoran Hadzibabic

    • Univ of Cambridge
    • University of Cambridge