https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00083-3
Regular Article
Momentum distribution of Vinen turbulence in trapped atomic Bose–Einstein condensates
1
Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 369, 13560-970, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
2
Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 13565-905, São Carlos, Brazil
3
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 77843, College Station, TX, USA
Received:
25
May
2020
Accepted:
5
January
2021
Published online:
8
April
2021
The decay of multicharged vortices in trapped Bose–Einstein condensates may lead to a disordered vortex state consistent with the Vinen regime of turbulence, characterized by an absence of large-scale flow and an incompressible kinetic energy spectrum 
. In this work, we study numerically the dynamics of a three-dimensional harmonically trapped Bose–Einstein condensate excited to a Vinen regime of turbulence through the decay of two doubly-charged vortices. First, we study the momentum distribution and observe the emergence of a power-law behavior 
consistent with the coexistence of wave turbulence. We also study the kinetic energy and particle fluxes, which allows us to identify a direct particle cascade associated with the turbulent stage.
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