Perfect Fluidity in Atomic Physics
Nuclear Theory
2007-07-11 v1
Abstract
Experimental results obtained at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have been interpreted in terms of a strongly interacting quark gluon plasma. The strongly interacting plasma is characterized by ``perfect fluidity'', i.e. a ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density that saturates a proposed lower bound. In this contribution we explore the possibility that a similar phenomenon takes place in a strongly coupled non-relativistic Fermi liquid in which the scattering length between the Fermions is infinitely large.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0707.1504,
title = {Perfect Fluidity in Atomic Physics},
author = {Thomas Schaefer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.1504},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Talk given at 23rd Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Big Sky, Montana, 11-18 Feb 2007, Acta Physica Hungarica, in press