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Sounds and turbulence in a 2D Bose gas

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Abstract

I will discuss our recent experiments on driven box-trapped 2D Bose gases. We have observed first and second sound in this system, which is the first such observation in a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) superfluid. The measured speeds of the two sounds allow extraction of the superfluid density, which agrees with the expected universal jump at the critical point. I will also discuss our new results on strongly driven 2D gases in which a direct turbulent cascade emerges.

Publication: "Observation of first and second sound in a BKT superfluid," P. Christodoulou et al., Nature 594, 191 (2021)

Presenters

  • Zoran Hadzibabic

    Univ of Cambridge

Authors

  • Zoran Hadzibabic

    Univ of Cambridge