Shear Viscosity of Uniform Fermi Gases with Population Imbalance

Abstract

The shear viscosity plays an important role in studies of transport phenomena in ultracold Fermi gases and serves as a diagnostic of various microscopic theories. Due to the complicated phase structures of population-imbalanced Fermi gases, past works mainly focus on unpolarized Fermi gases. Here we investigate the shear viscosity of homogeneous, population-imbalanced Fermi gases with tunable attractive interactions at finite temperatures by using a pairing fluctuation theory for thermodynamical quantities and a gauge-invariant linear response theory for transport coefficients. In the unitary and BEC regimes, the shear viscosity increases with the polarization because the excess majority fermions cause gapless excitations acting like a normal fluid. In the weak BEC regime the excess fermions also suppress the noncondensed pairs at low polarization, and we found a minimum in the ratio of shear viscosity and relaxation time. To help constrain the relaxation time from linear response theory, we derive an exact relation connecting some thermodynamic quantities and transport coefficients at the mean-field level for unitary Fermi superfluids with population imbalance. An approximate relation beyond mean-field theory is proposed and only exhibits mild deviations from numerical results.

arXiv comment11 pages, 4 figures

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