Published January 12, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Vanishing Bulk Viscosities and Conformal Invariance of the Unitary Fermi Gas

Creators

  • 1. Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1550 (United States)

Description

By requiring general-coordinate and conformal invariance of the hydrodynamic equations, we show that the unitary Fermi gas has zero bulk viscosity, ζ=0, in the normal phase. In the superfluid phase, two of the bulk viscosities have to vanish, ζ1=ζ2=0, while the third one ζ3 is allowed to be nonzero

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
98
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 020604-020604.4
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
38024553
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; COORDINATES; EQUATIONS; FERMI GAS; SUPERFLUIDITY; VISCOSITY
Descriptors DEC
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES

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Notes
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