Perfect Fluidity in Atomic Physics
arXiv:0707.1504
Abstract
Experimental results obtained at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have been interpreted in terms of a strongly interacting quark gluon plasma. The strongly interacting plasma is characterized by ``perfect fluidity'', i.e. a ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density that saturates a proposed lower bound. In this contribution we explore the possibility that a similar phenomenon takes place in a strongly coupled non-relativistic Fermi liquid in which the scattering length between the Fermions is infinitely large.
Talk given at 23rd Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Big Sky, Montana, 11-18 Feb 2007, Acta Physica Hungarica, in press