Spin drag in an ultracold Fermi gas on the verge of a ferromagnetic instability

Details Spin drag in an ultracold Fermi gas on the verge of a ferromagnetic instability Spin drag in an ultracold Fermi gas on the verge of a ferromagnetic instability

2010-02-11

arxiv.org/abs/1002.2371v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 220403 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Quantum Gases

4 pages, 3 figs

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.220403

Recent experiments [Jo et al., Science 325, 1521 (2009)] have presented evidence of ferromagnetic correlations in a two-component ultracold Fermi gas with strong repulsive interactions. Motivated by these experiments we consider spin drag, i.e., frictional drag due to scattering of particles with opposite spin, in such systems. We show that when the ferromagnetic state is approached from the normal side, the spin drag relaxation rate is strongly enhanced near the critical point. We also determine the temperature dependence of the spin diffusion constant. In a trapped gas the spin drag relaxation rate determines the damping of the spin dipole mode, which therefore provides a precursor signal of the ferromagnetic phase transition that may be used to experimentally determine the proximity to the ferromagnetic phase.

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