Spontaneous Counterflow in Rotating Supersolids

Read our latest preprint published on arxiv!

In this work, Silvia Trabucco, Elena Poli, Massimo Mannarelli, and Francesca Ferlaino show that the seemingly dual rotational response of a supersolid arises from a single flow-counterflow mechanism, providing a microscopic interpretation of the phenomenological rigid/superfluid partitioning.

These results provide a microscopic understanding of how superfluidity and crystalline order coexist in rotating supersolids.