Abstract
We report the experimental generation of two-dimensional quantum turbulence in dilute-gas Bose-Einstein condensates by stirring the condensate with a laser beam, and the decay of the turbulent state to a large-scale flow in the form of a persistent current in a toroidal trap geometry. From numerical simulations of the stirring process, we characterize the dynamics of the quantized vortices in the condensate, and analyze the kinetic energy spectrum. Our observations are consistent with basic features of two-dimensional turbulence in classical incompressible fluids.
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