Mechanical behavior of solid helium: Elasticity, plasticity, and defects

J Beamish, S Balibar - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
This review addresses experiments on elasticity, plasticity, and flow of solid He 4 and He 3,
focusing on dislocations and other defects that are responsible for the unusual mechanical …

Strong optical coupling through superfluid Brillouin lasing

X He, GI Harris, CG Baker, A Sawadsky, YL Sfendla… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Brillouin scattering has applications ranging from signal processing,, sensing and
microscopy to quantum information and fundamental science,. Most of these applications …

Stabilized Pair Density Wave via Nanoscale Confinement of Superfluid

AJ Shook, V Vadakkumbatt, P Senarath Yapa… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Superfluid He 3 under nanoscale confinement has generated significant interest due to the
rich spectrum of phases with complex order parameters that may be stabilized. Experiments …

Quantum optomechanics in a liquid

AB Shkarin, AD Kashkanova, CD Brown, S Garcia… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
We measure the quantum fluctuations of a single acoustic mode in a volume of superfluid
He that is coupled to an optical cavity. Specifically, we monitor the Stokes and anti-Stokes …

Cavity optomechanics: Manipulating photons and phonons towards the single-photon strong coupling

Y Liu, C Wang, J Zhang, Y Liu - Chinese Physics B, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Cavity optomechanical systems provide powerful platforms to manipulate photons and
phonons, open potential applications for modern optical communications and precise …

Turbulent relaxation to equilibrium in a two-dimensional quantum vortex gas

MT Reeves, K Goddard-Lee, G Gauthier, OR Stockdale… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
We experimentally study the emergence of microcanonical equilibrium states in the turbulent
relaxation dynamics of a two-dimensional chiral vortex gas. Same-sign vortices are injected …

Phenomenology of transition to quantum turbulence in flows of superfluid helium

L Skrbek, D Schmoranzer… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Transition from laminar to turbulent states of classical viscous fluids is complex and
incompletely understood. Transition to quantum turbulence (QT), by which we mean the …

Surface-dominated finite-size effects in nanoconfined superfluid helium

E Varga, C Undershute, JP Davis - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Superfluid He 4 (He II) is a widely studied model system for exploring finite-size effects in
strongly confined geometries. Here, we study He II confined in millimeter-scale channels of …

Three-tone coherent microwave electromechanical measurement of a superfluid Helmholtz resonator

S Spence, E Varga, CA Potts, JP Davis - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate electromechanical coupling between a superfluid mechanical mode and a
microwave mode formed by a patterned microfluidic chip and a 3D cavity. The electric field …

Observation of bistable turbulence in quasi-two-dimensional superflow

E Varga, V Vadakkumbatt, AJ Shook, PH Kim… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Turbulent flow restricted to two dimensions can spontaneously develop order on large
scales, defying entropy expectations and in sharp contrast with turbulence in three …