Extended Data Fig. 1: Reproducibility of the initial cloud preparation.
From: Connecting shear flow and vortex array instabilities in annular atomic superfluids
a, Fidelity in creating the target circulation state state, 〈Δw〉M − ΔwT. b, Number of spurious vortices observed before removing the optical barrier, and c, Deviation of the total number of vortices from the target state, \({\langle {N}_{v}\rangle }_{M}-\Delta {w}_{T}\). All three panels were generated from 100 experimental repetitions for each of the two target states ΔwT = 6, 12 (blue and orange, respectively). d, Total number of vortices detected after removing the barrier, t = 0 of vortex dynamics, as a function of the imprinted winding number difference ΔwT. The red dashed line is the identity line, Nv = Δw.
