Anomalous minimum in the shear viscosity of a Fermi gas

Abstract

We measure the static shear viscosity $\eta$ in a two-component Fermi gas near a broad collisional (Feshbach) resonance, as a function of interaction strength and energy. We find that $\eta$ has both a quadratic and a linear dependence on the interaction strength $1/(k_{FI}a)$, where $a$ is the s-wave scattering length and $k_{FI}$ is the Fermi wave vector for an ideal gas at the trap center. For energies above the superfluid transition, the minimum in $\eta$ as a function of interaction strength is significantly shifted toward the BEC side of resonance, to $1/(k_{FI}a)\simeq 0.25$.

14 pages, 8 figures

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