Dresden 2011 – scientific programme

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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 57: Poster 3: Quantengase, Ultrakalte Atome, Ultrakalte Moleküle, Materiewellen Optik, Präzisionsmessungen, Metrologie

Q 57.14: Poster

Thursday, March 17, 2011, 16:30–19:30, P1

Cold Heat - The Quantum Kinetic Theory of Collisionless Superfluid Internal Convection — •Lukas Gilz and James Anglin — TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

When a superfluid is heated locally, condensate and non-condensate fractions flow in opposite directions. As if to rebut the 19th century conclusion that cold is merely absence of heat, condensate flows like a flux of cold, from cooler regions to hotter. Wereas this phenomenon of "superfluid internal convection" is usually described within Landau's phenomenological two fluid model, we obtain a more fundamental picture of internal convection by extending a standard master equation formulation of quantum kinetic theory to include two reservoirs of different temperatures. We find that internal convection occurs even in collisionless regimes and that coherent scattering is essential to the observation of a condensate flow. Besides computing estimates of particle-, energy- and entropy flow, we propose an experimental approach by which this behavior can be observed in trapped ultracold Bose gases.