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Bosonic thermoelectric transport and breakdown of universality

Quantum Gases 2014-12-01 v3

Abstract

In this paper we compare Bose transport in normal phase atomic gases with its counterpart in Fermi gases, illustrating the non-universality of two dimensional bosonic transport associated with different dissipation mechanisms. Near the superfluid transition temperature TcT_c, a striking similarity between the fermionic and bosonic transport emerges because super-conducting(fluid) fluctuation transport for Fermi gases is dominated by the bosonic, Cooper pair component. As in fluctuation theory, one finds that the Seebeck coefficient changes sign at TcT_c and the Lorenz number approaches zero at TcT_c. Our findings appear semi-quantitatively consistent with recent Bose gas experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1311.0769,
  title  = {Bosonic thermoelectric transport and breakdown of universality},
  author = {A. Rancon and Cheng Chin and K. Levin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.0769},
  year   = {2014}
}

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v3: longer version 8 pages, 3 figures