Monday, December 17, 2012

1201.4006 (Massimo Mannarelli et al.)

Shear viscosity in a superfluid cold Fermi gas at unitarity    [PDF]

Massimo Mannarelli, Cristina Manuel, Laura Tolos
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, $\eta/s$, 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 $T \lesssim 0.1 T_F$, $\eta/s$ should correlate with the size of the trap and linearly decrease with decreasing temperature. For $T \gtrsim 0.1 T_F$, we find agreement with the experimental data assuming that the Nambu-Goldstone modes have an anomalous dispersion law.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.4006

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