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Mesoscopic dynamics of fermionic cold atoms ---Quantitative analysis of transport coefficients and relaxation times---

Quantum Gases 2016-06-22 v2 Nuclear Theory Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

We give a quantitative analysis of the dynamical properties of fermionic cold atomic gases in normal phase, such as the shear viscosity, heat conductivity, and viscous relaxation times, using the novel microscopic expressions derived by the renormalization group (RG) method, where the Boltzmann equation is faithfully solved to extract the hydrodynamics without recourse to any ansatz. In particular, we examine the quantum statistical effects, temperature dependence, and scattering-length dependence of the transport coefficients and the viscous relaxation times. The numerical calculation shows that the relation τπ=η/P\tau_\pi=\eta/P, which is derived in the relaxation-time approximation (RTA) and is used in most of the literature, turns out to be satisfied quite well, while the similar relation for the viscous relaxation time τJ\tau_J of the heat conductivity is satisfied only approximately with a considerable error.

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@article{arxiv.1511.04675,
  title  = {Mesoscopic dynamics of fermionic cold atoms ---Quantitative analysis of transport coefficients and relaxation times---},
  author = {Yuta Kikuchi and Kyosuke Tsumura and Teiji Kunihiro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.04675},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

20 pages, 6 figures, version accepted for publication in Physics Letters A