Viscous relaxation and collective oscillations in a trapped Fermi gas near the unitarity limit

Abstract

The viscous relaxation time of a trapped two-component gas of fermions in its normal phase is calculated as a function of temperature and scattering length, with the collision probability being determined by an energy-dependent s-wave cross section. The result is used for calculating the temperature dependence of the frequency and damping of collective modes studied in recent experiments, starting from the kinetic equation for the fermion distribution function with mean-field effects included in the streaming terms.

10 pages, 9 figures; proof version, corrected typo in Eq. (23); accepted for publication in PRA

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