Physics – Condensed Matter – Quantum Gases
Scientific paper
2011-05-12
New Journal of Physics 13 (2011) 075007
Physics
Condensed Matter
Quantum Gases
20 pages, 10 figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/1367-2630/13/7/075007
We measure the shear viscosity in a two-component Fermi gas of atoms, tuned to a broad s-wave collisional (Feshbach) resonance. At resonance, the atoms strongly interact and exhibit universal behavior, where the equilibrium thermodynamic properties and the transport coefficients are universal functions of the density $n$ and temperature $T$. We present a new calibration of the temperature as a function of global energy, which is directly measured from the cloud profiles. Using the calibration, the trap-averaged shear viscosity in units of $\hbar\,n$ is determined as a function of the reduced temperature at the trap center, from nearly the ground state to the unitary two-body regime. Low temperature data is obtained from the damping rate of the radial breathing mode, while high temperature data is obtained from hydrodynamic expansion measurements. We also show that the best fit to the high temperature expansion data is obtained for a vanishing bulk viscosity. The measured trap-averaged entropy per particle and shear viscosity are used to estimate the ratio of the shear viscosity to the entropy density, which is compared that conjectured for a perfect fluid.
Cao Chen
Elliott Erin
Thomas Joan E.
Wu Haibin
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