Quantifying Turbulence in Fermionic Superfluids

ORAL

Abstract

We analyze the largest fermionic cold atom simulations where turbulence is imprinted externally in the form of a vortex lattice along all 3 dimensions. Although numerically the vortex length can be calculated, experimentally measuring it is extremely difficult. To address this, we use a shock wave as a probe and extract the superfluid transport properties. The goal being that extracting a hydrodynamic effective viscosity would give a good quantitative model for turbulence. A few methods are explored for identifying turbulence as well.

*This work was supported in part by the NSF through Grant No. PHY-2012190.This research used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility,supported under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725.

Presenters

  • Saptarshi R Sarkar

    • Washington State Univ

Authors

  • Saptarshi R Sarkar

    • Washington State Univ
  • Khalid Hossain

    • Washington State Univ
  • Edward Eskew

    • Washington State University
  • Gabriel Wlazlowski

    • Warsaw University of Technology
  • Michael M Forbes

    • Washington State Univ
    • Washington State University