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, , 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 , should correlate with the size of the trap and linearly decrease with decreasing temperature. For , 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}
}
Comments
10 pages, 1 figure, clarifications added