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Hydrodynamics with spacetime-dependent scattering length

Quantum Gases 2018-12-27 v2 Nuclear Theory Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

Hydrodynamics provides a concise but powerful description of long-time and long-distance physics of correlated systems out of thermodynamic equilibrium. Here we construct hydrodynamic equations for nonrelativistic particles with a spacetime-dependent scattering length and show that it enters constitutive relations uniquely so as to represent the fluid expansion and contraction in both normal and superfluid phases. As a consequence, we find that a leading dissipative correction to the contact density due to the spacetime-dependent scattering length is proportional to the bulk viscosity (ζ2\zeta_2 in the superfluid phase). Also, when the scattering length is slowly varied over time in a uniform system, the entropy density is found to be produced even without fluid flows in proportion to the bulk viscosity, which may be useful as a novel probe to measure the bulk viscosity in ultracold-atom experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1807.07983,
  title  = {Hydrodynamics with spacetime-dependent scattering length},
  author = {Keisuke Fujii and Yusuke Nishida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.07983},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

9 pages, no figure; published version

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