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JOURNAL OF LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS
Volume 171, Issue 5-6, Pages 563-570Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10909-012-0827-9
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Bose-Einstein condensate; Quantum turbulence; Quantum vortices
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We discuss the configurations of vortices in two-dimensional quantum turbulence, studying energy spectrum of superfluid velocity and correlation functions with the distance between two vortices. We apply the above method to quantum turbulence described by Gross-Pitaevskii equation in Bose-Einstein condensates. We make two-dimensional quantum turbulence from many dark solitons through the dynamical instability. A dark soliton is unstable and decays into vortices in two- and three-dimensional systems. In our work, we propose a method of discriminating between the uncorrelated turbulence and the correlated turbulence. We decompose the energy spectrum into two terms, namely the self-energy spectrum E (self) (k) made by individual vortices and the interactive energy spectrum E (int) (k) made by interference of two vortices. The uncorrelated turbulence is defined as turbulence with E (int) (k)a parts per thousand E-a (self) (k), while the correlated turbulence is turbulence where E (int) (k) is not much smaller than E (self) (k). Our simulations show that in the decay of dark solitons, the vortices created consist of correlated pairs of opposite circulation vortices, leading to the correlated turbulence.
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