Temperature evolution of the shear viscosity in a unitary Fermi gas

Gabriel Wlazłowski, Piotr Magierski, Aurel Bulgac, and Kenneth J. Roche
Phys. Rev. A 88, 013639 – Published 31 July 2013

Abstract

We present an ab initio determination of the shear viscosity for the unitary Fermi gas based on finite temperature quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations and the Kubo linear-response formalism. The results are confronted with the bound for the shear viscosity originating from hydrodynamic fluctuations. Assuming smoothness of the frequency dependent shear viscosity η(ω), we show that the bound is violated in the low temperature regime and the violation occurs simultaneously with the onset of the Cooper pairing in the system. In order to preserve the hydrodynamic bound in QMC η(ω) has to possess a sharp structure located in the vicinity of zero frequency which is not resolved by an analytic continuation procedure.

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  • Received 10 April 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.88.013639

©2013 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Gabriel Wlazłowski1,2, Piotr Magierski1,2, Aurel Bulgac2, and Kenneth J. Roche2,3

  • 1Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Ulica Koszykowa 75, 00-662 Warsaw, Poland
  • 2Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1560, USA
  • 3Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA

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Vol. 88, Iss. 1 — July 2013

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