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H2020Staff exchange2019–2024

HALT · Hydrodynamical approach to light turbulence

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2019-04-01 → 2024-09-30
EU contribution
€243,800
Participants
12
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

Hydrodynamical approach to light turbulence

The overarching purpose of HALT (Hydrodynamic Approach to Light Turbulence) is to form a coherent research and training network of world-leading institutions in the multidisciplinary fields of nonlinear optics, hydrodynamic turbulence, and statistical physics to probe and enhance our understanding of one of the most important unsolved problems in physics: the structure of turbulence. The objective of HALT is to collaboratively develop new pathways in the understanding of complex turbulent behaviours of waves and coherent structures in light propagation through nonlinear optical media and atomic vapours in both one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) systems and draw connections to classical hydrodynamics. At the most fundamental level, developing a universal theoretical treatment of such problems will bring together the fields of nonlinear optics, condensed-matter fluids, and hydrodynamic turbulence into one. This is a truly pioneering project that will unify the approach to turbulence and cross the boundaries of wave-particle duality. The HALT project will produce a new generation of innovative, skilled and entrepreneurial researchers, many of whom will become future leaders in academia and industry and will make greater contributions to the knowledge-based economy and society.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

HALT (Hydrodynamic Approach to Light Turbulence) is a research focussed training initiative consisting of world-leading institutions in the multidisciplinary fields of nonlinear optics, classical hydrodynamics, and statistical physics. Through the proposed network, the overarching research objective is to develop new pathways in the understanding of one of the most important unsolved problems in physics: the structure of turbulence, while simultaneously training a new generation of early-stage researchers in scientific and non-scientific topics such as the media relations, scientific communication, modern open-science polices, website design, intellectual property rights, and various research knowledge and skills related to the HALT programme. Using nonlinear optics as a testbed, due to its inherent analogies to idealised compressible fluid flow, both theoreticians and experimentalists will, under close collaboration with each other, produce an array of novel optical and condensed matter experiments and systematically develop new revolutionary theoretical kinetic approaches to probe and understand the hydrodynamic nature of light. Through new advances in the understanding of optical turbulence, the ambition of the consortium, composed of European partners coupled with institutions from Brazil, Russia, China and Japan, is to make meaningful connections to classical hydrodynamic turbulence to push the frontiers of the global turbulence research community. The global HALT network will forge strong collaborative relationships between theoreticians and experimentalists and lead to a new sustainable era of collective research in the turbulence community.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • ASTON UNIVERSITY · BirminghamCoordinatorUnited Kingdom
  • ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS · TempeUnited States
  • CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · ParisFrance
  • HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY · WUHANChina
  • ITMO UNIVERSITY · ST PETERSBURGRussia
  • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · NEW YORKUnited States
  • NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY · NOVOSIBIRSKRussia
  • RIKEN · WAKO SHI SAITAMAJapan
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND · AucklandNew Zealand
  • UNIVERSIDADE DE SAO PAULO · SAO PAULO SPBrazil
  • UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY · SydneyAustralia
  • WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE · RehovotIsrael

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union