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Turbulent relaxation to equilibrium in a two-dimensional quantum vortex gas
Matthew T. Reeves, Kwan Goddard-Lee, Guillaume Gauthier, Oliver R. Stockdale, Hayder Salman, Timothy Edmonds, Xiaoquan Yu, Ashton S. Bradley, Mark Baker, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Matthew J. Davis, Tyler W. Neely
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We experimentally study emergence of microcanonical equilibrium states in the turbulent relaxation dynamics of a two-dimensional chiral vortex gas. Same-sign vortices are injected into a quasi-two-dimensional disk-shaped atomic Bose-Einstein condensate using a range of mechanical stirring protocols. The resulting long-time vortex distributions are found to be in excellent agreement with the meanfield Poisson-Boltzmann equation for the system describing the microcanonical ensemble at fixed energy H and angular momentum M. The equilibrium states are characterized by the corresponding thermodynamic variables of inverse temperature β̂ and rotation frequency ω̂. We are able to realize equilibria spanning the full phase diagram of the vortex gas, including on-axis states near zero-temperature, infinite temperature, and negative absolute temperatures. At sufficiently high energies the system exhibits a symmetry-breaking transition, resulting in an off-axis equilibrium phase at negative absolute temperature that no longer shares the symmetry of the container. We introduce a point-vortex model with phenomenological damping and noise that is able to quantitatively reproduce the equilibration dynamics.
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