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Shear viscosity in a superfluid cold Fermi gas at unitarity

Quantum Gases 2012-12-17 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We analyze the contributions of Nambu-Goldstone modes to the shear viscosity of a superfluid atomic Fermi gas close to unitarity. We show that the low temperature experimental values of the shear viscosity to entropy ratio, η/s\eta/s, are reproduced considering an effective shear viscosity which takes into account the collisions among Nambu-Goldstone bosons and the finite size of the optical trap. We predict that, for T0.1TFT \lesssim 0.1 T_F, η/s\eta/s should correlate with the size of the trap and linearly decrease with decreasing temperature. For T0.1TFT \gtrsim 0.1 T_F, we find agreement with the experimental data assuming that the Nambu-Goldstone modes have an anomalous dispersion law.

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@article{arxiv.1201.4006,
  title  = {Shear viscosity in a superfluid cold Fermi gas at unitarity},
  author = {Massimo Mannarelli and Cristina Manuel and Laura Tolos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.4006},
  year   = {2012}
}

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10 pages, 1 figure, clarifications added