Bulk viscosities for cold Fermi superfluids close to the unitary limit
arXiv: 0904.3023
Bulk viscosities for cold Fermi superfluids close to the unitary limit
We compute the coefficients of bulk viscosity for a non-relativistic superfluid corresponding to a fermionic system close to the unitarity limit. We consider the low temperature regime assuming that the transport properties of the system are dominated by phonons. To compute the coefficients of bulk viscosity we use kinetic theory in the relaxation time approximation and the low energy effective field theory of the corresponding system. We show that the three independent bulk viscosity coefficients, $��_1, ��_2, ��_3$, associated with irreversible flows vanish for phonons with a linear dispersion law. Considering a phonon dispersion law with a cubic term in momentum we find that in the conformal limit $��_1 = ��_2=0$, while $��_3$ is non-zero. Including a conformal breaking term which arises for a large but finite s-wave scattering length, $a$, at the leading order in $1/a$ we obtain that $��_1 \propto 1/a$ and $��_2 \propto 1/a^2$.
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Condensed Matter - Other Condensed Matter, High Energy Physics - Theory, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas), FOS: Physical sciences, Condensed Matter - Quantum Gases, Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
Condensed Matter - Other Condensed Matter, High Energy Physics - Theory, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas), FOS: Physical sciences, Condensed Matter - Quantum Gases, Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
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