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Quasiclassical molecular dynamics for the dilute Fermi gas at unitarity

Quantum Gases 2013-05-30 v2 Statistical Mechanics Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study the dilute Fermi gas at unitarity using molecular dynamics with an effective quantum potential constructed to reproduce the quantum two-body density matrix at unitarity. Results for the equation of state, the pair correlation function and the shear viscosity are presented. These quantities are well understood in the dilute, high temperature, limit. Using molecular dynamics we determine higher order corrections in the diluteness parameter nλ3n\lambda^3, where nn is the density and λ\lambda is the thermal de Broglie wave length. In the case of the contact density, which parameterizes the short distance behavior of the correlation function, we find that the results of molecular dynamics interpolates between the truncated second and third order virial expansion, and are in excellent agreement with existing T-matrix calculations. For the shear viscosity we reproduce the expected scaling behavior at high temperature, η1/λ3\eta\sim 1/\lambda^3, and we determine the leading density dependent correction to this result.

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@article{arxiv.1207.5068,
  title  = {Quasiclassical molecular dynamics for the dilute Fermi gas at unitarity},
  author = {Kevin Dusling and Thomas Schaefer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.5068},
  year   = {2013}
}

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23 pages, 7 figures