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Rotating curved spacetime signatures from a giant quantum vortex (Nature)
If the title alone doesn't make your head explode, read on."Gravity simulators1 are laboratory systems in which small excitations such as sound2 or surface waves3,4 behave as fields propagating on a curved spacetime geometry. The analogy between gravity and fluids requires vanishing viscosity2,3,4, a feature naturally realized in superfluids such as liquid helium or cold atomic clouds5,6,7,8. Such systems have been successful in verifying key predictions of quantum field theory in curved spacetime7,8,9,10,11. In particular, quantum simulations of rotating curved spacetimes indicative of astrophysical black holes require the realization of an extensive vortex flow12 in superfluid systems. Here we demonstrate that, despite the inherent instability of multiply quantized vortices13,14, a stationary giant quantum vortex can be stabilized in superfluid 4He."