Rotating quantum wave turbulence

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2023-06

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Nature Physics, Volume 19, issue 6

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Turbulence under strong influence of rotation is described as an ensemble of interacting inertial waves across a wide range of length scales. In macroscopic quantum condensates, the quasiclassical turbulent dynamics at large scales is altered at small scales, where the quantization of vorticity is essential. The nature of this transition remains an unanswered question. Here we expand the concept of wave-driven turbulence to rotating quantum fluids where the spectrum of waves extends to microscopic scales as Kelvin waves on quantized vortices. We excite inertial waves at the largest scale by periodic modulation of the angular velocity and observe dissipation-independent transfer of energy to smaller scales and the eventual onset of the elusive Kelvin wave cascade at the lowest temperatures. We further find that energy is pumped to the system through a boundary layer distinct from the classical Ekman layer and support our observations with numerical simulations. Our experiments demonstrate a regime of turbulent motion in quantum fluids where the role of vortex reconnections can be neglected, thus stripping the transition between the classical and the quantum regimes of turbulence down to its constituent components.

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Funding Information: This work has been supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 694248) and by Academy of Finland project no. 332964. Additionally, the research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 824109 (European Microkelvin Platform). S.A. and V.V.Z. acknowledge funding from UKRI EPSRC (EP/W015730/1) and STFC (ST/T006773/1), and S.A. also acknowledges support from the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation via the Council of Finnish Foundations. V.S.L. was in part supported by NSF-BSF grant no. 2020765. The experiments were performed at the Low Temperature Laboratory, which is a part of the OtaNano research infrastructure of Aalto University and of the European Microkelvin Platform. Publisher Copyright: © 2023, The Author(s). | openaire: EC/H2020/694248/EU//TOPVAC | openaire: EC/H2020/824109/EU//EMP

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Mäkinen, J T, Autti, S, Heikkinen, P J, Hosio, J J, Hänninen, R, L’vov, V S, Walmsley, P M, Zavjalov, V V & Eltsov, V B 2023, ' Rotating quantum wave turbulence ', Nature Physics, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 898-903 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-01966-z