Supersonic and subsonic shock waves in the unitary Fermi gas

Details Supersonic and subsonic shock waves in the unitary Fermi gas Supersonic and subsonic shock waves in the unitary Fermi gas

2011-10-03

arxiv.org/abs/1110.0311v1

EPL 96, 40007 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Quantum Gases

5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in EPL

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/96/40007

We investigate shock waves in the unitary Fermi gas by using the zero-temperature equations of superfluid hydrodynamics. We obtain analytical solutions for the dynamics of a localized perturbation of the uniform gas. These supersonic bright and subsonic dark solutions produce, after a transient time, an extremely large (divergent) density gradient: the shock. We calculate the time of formation of the shock and also simulate the space-time behavior of the waves by solving generalized hydrodynamic equations, which include a reliable dispersive regularization of the shock. We find that the shock spreads into wave ripples whose properties crucially depend on the chosen initial configuration.

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