Thermal dissipation in quantum turbulence

Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Oct 6;97(14):145301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.145301. Epub 2006 Oct 2.

Abstract

The microscopic mechanism of thermal dissipation in quantum turbulence is numerically studied by solving the coupled system involving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation and the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation. At low temperatures, the obtained dissipation does not work at scales greater than the vortex core size. However, as the temperature increases, dissipation works at large scales and it affects the vortex dynamics. We successfully obtain the mutual friction coefficients of the vortex in dilute Bose-Einstein condensates dynamics as functions of temperature.