Spin-heat relaxation and thermo-spin diffusion in atomic Bose and Fermi gases
Abstract
We study spin-dependent heat transport in quantum gases, focusing on transport phenomena related to pure spin currents and spin-dependent temperatures. Using the Boltzmann equation, we compute the coupled spin and heat transport coefficients as a function of temperature and interaction strength for energy dependent -wave scattering. We address the issue of whether spin-dependent temperatures can be sustained on a time and length scale relevant for experiments by computing the spin-heat relaxation time and diffusion length. We find that the time scale for spin-heat relaxation time diverges at low temperatures for both bosons and fermions, indicating that the concept of spin-heat accumulation is well defined for degenerate gases. For bosons, we find power-law behavior on approach to Bose condensation above the critical temperature, as expected from the theory of dynamical critical phenomena.
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@article{arxiv.1410.5378,
title = {Spin-heat relaxation and thermo-spin diffusion in atomic Bose and Fermi gases},
author = {Clement H. Wong and H. T. C. Stoof and R. A. Duine},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.5378},
year = {2015}
}