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arxiv: 2601.16005 · v2 · submitted 2026-01-22 · ❄️ cond-mat.quant-gas · nlin.PS· physics.optics

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Critical speed of a binary superfluid of light

Pierre-\'Elie Larr\'e , Claire Michel , Nicolas Cherroret
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classification ❄️ cond-mat.quant-gas nlin.PSphysics.optics
keywords critical speedbinary superfluidsuperfluid of lightLandau criterionBogoliubov modesvortex nucleationJones-Roberts solitonnonlinear Schrödinger equation
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The critical speed of a binary superfluid of light is set by the lower of its density and spin sound speeds, whose order can reverse when the optical nonlinearity saturates.

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This paper determines the maximum flow speed at which a two-dimensional miscible binary superfluid of light can pass an optical obstacle without dissipation. In the weak-obstacle regime linear response shows that the threshold equals the smallest phase velocity among the density and spin Bogoliubov modes. Saturation of the optical nonlinearity can swap which mode is slower. For obstacles of any strength and large size the same threshold follows from the loss of strong ellipticity in the steady hydrodynamic equations under hydraulic and incompressible approximations. Simulations confirm that flow breakdown begins with vortex-antivortex pairs when the obstacle is impenetrable and with Jones-Roberts solitons when it is penetrable.

Core claim

The critical speed for superfluid flow of a two-dimensional miscible binary superfluid of light past a polarization-sensitive optical obstacle equals the lowest phase velocity of its density and spin Bogoliubov modes when the obstacle is weak; saturation of the Kerr nonlinearity can reverse the ordering of these two speeds. For obstacles of arbitrary strength the speed is recovered from the requirement that the stationary hydrodynamic equations remain strongly elliptic under the hydraulic and incompressible approximations. Numerical evolution shows that superfluidity fails by nucleation of vortex-antivortex pairs when the obstacle is impenetrable and by emission of Jones-Roberts solitons for

What carries the argument

Landau's criterion applied to the density and spin Bogoliubov modes, together with the strong-ellipticity condition of the stationary hydrodynamic equations under the hydraulic and incompressible approximations

If this is right

  • Dissipation is absent for all mean flow velocities below this critical speed.
  • The relative ordering of the density and spin critical speeds can be inverted by saturation of the optical nonlinearity.
  • Superfluid breakdown occurs through nucleation of vortex-antivortex pairs for impenetrable obstacles and Jones-Roberts solitons for penetrable ones.
  • The same hydrodynamic criterion supplies the critical speed for any two-dimensional binary nonlinear Schrödinger superflow.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The ellipticity shortcut allows prediction of the critical speed without solving the full Bogoliubov spectrum when obstacles are large.
  • Analogous ordering reversals of sound modes could appear in atomic Bose-Bose mixtures when interaction parameters are tuned across a saturation-like regime.
  • Polarization-sensitive obstacles in photonic setups offer a direct experimental route to test the predicted mode-order inversion.

Load-bearing premise

The hydraulic and incompressible approximations remain valid for obstacles of arbitrary strength and large spatial extent when determining the critical speed from the conditions for strong ellipticity of the stationary hydrodynamic equations.

What would settle it

A measurement of the flow velocity at which dissipation first appears, compared with the calculated minimum of the two Bogoliubov sound speeds for weak obstacles, or direct observation of vortex-antivortex pairs versus Jones-Roberts solitons at breakdown for strong obstacles.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2601.16005 by Claire Michel, Nicolas Cherroret, Pierre-\'Elie Larr\'e.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: By slightly tilting uniform, equally bright left- (+) and right- (−) circularly polarized beams with same angle with respect to the z axis (blue arrows), we create, in the transverse x−y plane, a fully balanced binary superflow of light with total density ρ0 and mean velocity V0, here along the positive-x direction (blue spot in the zoom). This 2D flow impinges on a birefringent optical obstacle of radius … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Density speed of sound cd [first equation in (22); solid curve] and spin speed of sound cs (second equa￾tion; dashed curve) as functions of the saturation parame￾ter β for the intercomponent interaction constant α ≃ 0.41 of Ref. [55]. The coordinates of the intersection point are β = 2α/(1 − α) ≃ 1.39 and cd,s = (1 − α)/[2(1 + α)]1/2 ≃ 0.35. At low β, in the Kerr regime, cd ≃ [(1 + α)/2]1/2 ≃ 0.84 and cs ≃… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Normalized drag force F/(πw2U 2 ) [Eqs. (29) and (30)] experienced by the obstacle of radius w and total and relative potential amplitudes U and u as a function of the mean asymp￾totic velocity V0 of the flow. The two graphs are plotted for the intercomponent interaction constant α ≃ 0.41 of Ref. [55], w = 10, and |u| = U. In panel (a), β = 0.5 (left arrow in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Threshold speeds V1 [Eq. (68); dark solid curve] and V2 [Eq. (69); dark dashed curve] for an impenetrable obstacle potential (U/µ0 > 1). While V1 and V2 are formally derived from the density- and spin-sector local constraints (65), re￾spectively, the resulting excitations above Vc = min{V1, V2} are hybridized (see Sec. 4.4). The curves are plotted as functions of the saturation parameter β for the intercom… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Surface plot of the critical speed Vc(U, |u|, α, β) as a function of the normalized obstacle amplitudes U/µ0 and |u|/µ0 in the penetrable regime (56). The orange region in the U/µ0−|u|/µ0 plane corresponds to the range of applicabil￾ity (57) of our approach. In this plot, the interaction constant is set to the value α ≃ 0.41 used in the experiment of Ref. [55]. The blue, shaded sheets show Vc for (a) β = 0… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Evolution along the propagation axis—z = 80 for the main images; z = 200 for the insets—of the 2D transverse dis￾tributions for the two superfluid components (a, b) ψ+ and (c, d) ψ− in the impenetrable-obstacle regime (U/µ0 > 1). Pan￾els (a) and (c) display the densities ρ+(x, y) and ρ−(x, y), respectively, while (b) and (d) show the corresponding phase maps ϕ+(x, y) and ϕ−(x, y) (color scale) and velocity… view at source ↗
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We theoretically study the critical speed for superfluid flow of a two-dimensional miscible binary superfluid of light past a polarization-sensitive optical obstacle. This speed corresponds to the maximum mean flow velocity below which dissipation is absent. In the weak-obstacle regime, linear-response theory shows that the critical speed is set by Landau's criterion applied to the density and spin Bogoliubov modes, whose relative ordering can be inverted due to saturation of the optical nonlinearity. For obstacles of arbitrary strength and large spatial extent, we determine the critical speed from the conditions for strong ellipticity of the stationary hydrodynamic equations within the hydraulic and incompressible approximations. Numerical simulations in this regime reveal that the breakdown of superfluidity is initiated by the nucleation of vortex-antivortex pairs for an impenetrable obstacle, and of Jones-Roberts solitons for a penetrable obstacle. Beyond superfluids of light, our results provide a general framework for the critical speed of two-dimensional binary nonlinear Schr\"odinger superflows, including Bose-Bose quantum mixtures.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper studies the critical speed for dissipationless superfluid flow of a 2D miscible binary superfluid of light past a polarization-sensitive optical obstacle. In the weak-obstacle regime, linear-response theory shows this speed is set by Landau's criterion applied to the density and spin Bogoliubov modes, whose ordering can invert due to saturation of the optical nonlinearity. For obstacles of arbitrary strength and large extent, the critical speed is obtained from the strong-ellipticity boundary of the stationary hydrodynamic equations under hydraulic and incompressible approximations. Time-dependent numerical simulations reveal that superfluidity breaks down via nucleation of vortex-antivortex pairs (impenetrable obstacle) or Jones-Roberts solitons (penetrable obstacle). The results are framed as a general approach for 2D binary NLS superflows, including Bose-Bose mixtures.

Significance. If the central claims hold, the work supplies a concrete framework for critical speeds in binary NLS systems that incorporates both linear-response Landau analysis and hydrodynamic ellipticity conditions, with explicit demonstration of how optical nonlinearity saturation can reorder the relevant modes. The numerical confirmation of distinct nucleation channels (vortex pairs versus solitons) depending on obstacle penetrability adds mechanistic insight. These elements extend standard single-component results and are directly relevant to ongoing experiments with superfluids of light and quantum mixtures.

major comments (1)
  1. [section on arbitrary-strength obstacles (hydraulic/incompressible ellipticity analysis)] In the section deriving the critical speed for obstacles of arbitrary strength and large spatial extent, the strong-ellipticity condition is obtained after imposing the hydraulic (slowly varying) and incompressible (constant density) approximations on the stationary hydrodynamic equations. These approximations suppress the density fluctuations and compressibility effects that mediate vortex-pair nucleation in the full binary NLS dynamics. The manuscript reports that numerics confirm the nucleation mechanisms but does not provide a quantitative comparison (e.g., a table or plot) between the ellipticity-derived threshold velocity and the velocity at which dissipation first appears in the time-dependent simulations. This comparison is required to establish that the reported critical speed coincides with the onset of dissipation rather than serving only as an upper bound.
minor comments (1)
  1. [abstract and numerical results section] The term 'Jones-Roberts solitons' is used in the abstract and results without a brief definition or citation to the original reference; a short parenthetical explanation or reference would aid readers outside the soliton literature.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their careful reading of the manuscript and for the constructive major comment. We agree that a direct quantitative comparison is needed to confirm that the ellipticity-derived threshold coincides with the onset of dissipation in the simulations, and we will revise the manuscript to include this comparison.

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  1. Referee: In the section deriving the critical speed for obstacles of arbitrary strength and large spatial extent, the strong-ellipticity condition is obtained after imposing the hydraulic (slowly varying) and incompressible (constant density) approximations on the stationary hydrodynamic equations. These approximations suppress the density fluctuations and compressibility effects that mediate vortex-pair nucleation in the full binary NLS dynamics. The manuscript reports that numerics confirm the nucleation mechanisms but does not provide a quantitative comparison (e.g., a table or plot) between the ellipticity-derived threshold velocity and the velocity at which dissipation first appears in the time-dependent simulations. This comparison is required to establish that the reported critical speed coincides with the onset of dissipation rather than serving only as an upper bound.

    Authors: We agree with the referee that the current manuscript lacks a quantitative comparison between the critical speed obtained from the strong-ellipticity boundary and the velocity at which dissipation first appears in the time-dependent simulations. While the approximations (hydraulic and incompressible) are standard for deriving the hydrodynamic threshold and the numerics already illustrate the nucleation channels, a direct side-by-side comparison is indeed required to establish that the reported critical speed marks the actual onset rather than merely an upper bound. In the revised manuscript we will add a new figure (or supplementary panel) that overlays the ellipticity-derived critical velocity (as a function of obstacle strength and size) with the dissipation-onset velocities extracted from the simulations for both impenetrable and penetrable obstacles. This will quantify the agreement within the validity range of the approximations and explicitly address the concern about suppressed density fluctuations. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; derivations use standard external criteria

full rationale

The paper applies Landau's criterion to the density and spin Bogoliubov modes for the weak-obstacle regime and extracts the critical speed from the strong-ellipticity boundary of the stationary hydrodynamic equations under hydraulic and incompressible approximations for arbitrary-strength obstacles. Both steps rest on established linear-response theory and hydrodynamic formulations for binary NLS systems that predate this work and are not redefined or fitted within the paper itself. No parameters are tuned to a data subset and then relabeled as predictions, no uniqueness theorems are imported solely from the authors' prior citations as load-bearing facts, and no ansatz is smuggled via self-citation. The numerical simulations are presented as independent confirmation rather than part of the derivation chain. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks and does not reduce to its own inputs by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The work relies on standard superfluid theory without introducing new free parameters or invented entities; the only assumptions are the usual miscibility condition and the validity of the hydraulic/incompressible limits.

axioms (2)
  • standard math Landau's criterion for the onset of dissipation in superfluids
    Invoked directly in the weak-obstacle regime to set the critical speed from the Bogoliubov spectrum.
  • domain assumption Hydraulic and incompressible approximations for the stationary hydrodynamic equations
    Used for obstacles of arbitrary strength and large spatial extent to obtain the ellipticity conditions.

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