Viscosity Bound Violation in Viscoelastic Fermi Liquids

Abstract

The anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence (AdS/CFT) has been used to determine a lower bound on the ratio of shear viscosity $\left(\eta \right)$ to entropy density $(s)$ for strongly-coupled field theories with a gravity dual. The conjectured universal lower bound, given as $\eta /s\ge \hslash /4\pi k_B$, is a measure of interaction strength in a quantum fluid where equality indicates a perfect quantum fluid. In this paper we study $\eta /s$ in a Fermi gas in the unitary limit. We show that in addition to a local minimum for $\eta /s$ at $T\approx 2T_c$ which obeys the lower bound, a more interesting result exists in the violation of the $\eta /s$ lower bound due to the superfluid fluctuations above $T_c$. To conclude, we examine the viscoelastic properties of the unitary Fermi gas. Previous work brought to light the connection between violation of the $\eta /s$ bound and a viscoelastic response in the context of holographic solids. We ultimately find that, in addition to holographic solids, all Fermi liquids with a viscoelastic response produced by superfluid fluctuations can violate the universal $\eta /s$ lower bound.

arXiv comment13 pages, 4 figures. J. Phys. Commun. (2019)

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