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We show that an elliptical obstacle moving through a Bose–Einstein condensate generates wakes of quantum vortices which resemble those of classical viscous flow past a cylinder or sphere. The role of ellipticity is to facilitate the interaction of the vortices nucleated by the obstacle. Initial steady symmetric wakes lose their symmetry and form clusters of like-signed vortices, in analogy to the classical Bénard–von Kármán vortex street. Our findings, demonstrated numerically in both two and three dimensions, confirm the intuition that a sufficiently large number of quanta of circulation reproduce classical physics.
Author(s): Stagg GW, Parker NG, Barenghi CF
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Year: 2014
Volume: 47
Issue: 9
Print publication date: 15/05/2014
Online publication date: 16/04/2014
Acceptance date: 25/03/2014
ISSN (print): 0953-4075
ISSN (electronic): 1361-6455
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/47/9/095304
DOI: 10.1088/0953-4075/47/9/095304
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