Viscosity and scale invariance in the unitary Fermi gas

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2010.10.002zbMATH Open1218.82021arXiv1008.0007OpenAlexW3105397373MaRDI QIDQ2431332FDOQ2431332

Authors: T. Enss, Rudolf Haussmann, Wilhelm Zwerger 

Publication date: 13 April 2011

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We compute the shear viscosity of the unitary Fermi gas above the superfluid transition temperature, using a diagrammatic technique that starts from the exact Kubo formula. The formalism obeys a Ward identity associated with scale invariance which guarantees that the bulk viscosity vanishes identically. For the shear viscosity, vertex corrections and the associated Aslamazov-Larkin contributions are shown to be crucial to reproduce the full Boltzmann equation result in the high-temperature, low fugacity limit. The frequency dependent shear viscosity $eta(omega)$ exhibits a Drude-like transport peak and a power-law tail at large frequencies which is proportional to the Tan contact. The weight in the transport peak is given by the equilibrium pressure, in agreement with a sum rule due to Taylor and Randeria. Near the superfluid transition the peak width is of the order of $0.5T_F$, thus invalidating a quasiparticle description. The ratio $eta/s$ between the static shear viscosity and the entropy density exhibits a minimum near the superfluid transition temperature whose value is larger than the string theory bound $hbar/(4pi{k}_B)$ by a factor of about seven.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.0007

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zbMATH Keywords

scale invariancesuperfluiddegenerate Fermi gasentropy densitystatic shear viscosity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of gases (82D05) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Statistical mechanics of superfluids (82D50)

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