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Collective mode damping and viscosity in a 1D unitary Fermi gas

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-11 v2 Superconductivity

Abstract

We calculate the damping of the Bogoliubov-Anderson mode in a one-dimensional two-component attractive Fermi gas for arbitrary coupling strength within a quantum hydrodynamic approach. Using the Bethe-Ansatz solution of the 1D BCS-BEC crossover problem, we derive analytic results for the viscosity covering the full range from a Luther-Emery liquid of weakly bound pairs to a Lieb-Liniger gas of strongly bound bosonic dimers. At the unitarity point, the system is a Tonks-Girardeau gas with a universal constant αζ=0.38\alpha_{\zeta}=0.38 in the viscosity ζ=αζn\zeta=\alpha_{\zeta}\hbar n for T=0. For the trapped case, we calculate the Q-factor of the breathing mode and show that the damping provides a sensitive measure of temperature in 1D Fermi gases.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0605413,
  title  = {Collective mode damping and viscosity in a 1D unitary Fermi gas},
  author = {M. Punk and W. Zwerger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0605413},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages, 3 figures, published version (minor changes)