Relaxation dynamics of half-quantum vortices in a two-component BEC

Matthew Wheeler

University of East Anglia -

We study the relaxation dynamics of quantum turbulence in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate containing half-quantum vortices. We find that the system exhibits a temporal scaling regime for the number of vortices and the correlation length scales that at early times is strongly dependent on the relative strength of the inter-species interaction. At late times we recover a universal scaling of the correlation lengths with time, corresponding to that numerically observed in scalar Bose-Einstein condensates close to an anomalous non-thermal fixed point.