{"id":160402,"date":"2023-03-16T02:24:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T07:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/building-an-understanding-of-quantum-turbulence-from-the-ground-up"},"modified":"2023-03-16T02:24:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T07:24:31","slug":"building-an-understanding-of-quantum-turbulence-from-the-ground-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/building-an-understanding-of-quantum-turbulence-from-the-ground-up","title":{"rendered":"Building an understanding of quantum turbulence from the ground up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/building-an-understanding-of-quantum-turbulence-from-the-ground-up2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most people only encounter turbulence as an unpleasant feature of air travel, but it\u2019s also a notoriously complex problem for physicists and engineers. The same forces that rattle planes are swirling in a glass of water and even in the whorl of subatomic particles. Because turbulence involves interactions across a range of distances and timescales, the process is too complicated to be solved through calculation or computational modeling\u2014there\u2019s simply too much information involved.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have attempted to tackle the issue by studying the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/turbulence\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">turbulence<\/a> that occurs in superfluids, which is formed by tiny identical whirls called quantized vortices. A key question is how turbulence happens on the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+scale\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum scale<\/a> and how is it linked to turbulence at larger scales.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Aalto University have brought that goal closer with a new study of quantum wave turbulence. Their findings, published in <i>Nature Physics<\/i>, demonstrate a new understanding of how wave-like motion transfers <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy<\/a> from macroscopic to microscopic length scales, and their results confirm a theoretical prediction about how the energy is dissipated at small scales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people only encounter turbulence as an unpleasant feature of air travel, but it\u2019s also a notoriously complex problem for physicists and engineers. The same forces that rattle planes are swirling in a glass of water and even in the whorl of subatomic particles. Because turbulence involves interactions across a range of distances and timescales, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}