{"id":54653,"date":"2025-10-23T16:16:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/?p=54653"},"modified":"2025-10-23T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:17:07","slug":"synchronization-in-rotating-supersolids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/synchronization-in-rotating-supersolids\/","title":{"rendered":"Synchronization in rotating supersolids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/figure1_synchro.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/figure1_synchro-300x165.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/figure1_synchro-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/figure1_synchro-768x423.png 768w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/figure1_synchro-500x276.png 500w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/figure1_synchro-800x441.png 800w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/figure1_synchro.png 916w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our paper &#8220;Synchronization in rotating supersolids&#8221; is now published in Nature Physics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-025-03065-7\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Read the news article by Nature Physics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-025-03066-6\">here<\/a> and the news article by the University of Innsbruck <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uibk.ac.at\/en\/newsroom\/2025\/supersolid-spins-into-synchrony\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Synchronization is a widespread phenomenon in natural and engineered systems, governing the emergence of collective dynamics in different domains including biology and classical and quantum physics. Supersolids\u2014quantum phases that combine crystalline order and superfluidity\u2014offer a platform to explore synchronization in systems with coexisting broken symmetries.<\/p>\n<p>In this work, we investigate the dynamics of a dipolar supersolid subjected to external rotation. We show that, above a critical driving frequency, the crystal revolution undergoes a sudden synchronization with the rotating field seeded by the nucleation of quantized vortices, hallmark of superfluidity.<\/p>\n<p>This transition reflects the interplay between the solid-like and superfluid responses of the system. By comparing simulations of the extended Gross\u2013Pitaevskii equation with experimental observations, we demonstrate that synchronization can serve as a dynamical indicator for vortex nucleation. This approach provides a complementary method to determine the critical rotation frequency for vortex formation in supersolids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dancing supersolids synchronize &#8211; now published in Nature Physics! Our work shows that the nucleation of vortices in dipolar supersolids can be revealed by the onset of rotational synchronization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,3,42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54655,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54653\/revisions\/54655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}