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arxiv: 1012.0219 · v1 · pith:TALWGH62new · submitted 2010-12-01 · ❄️ cond-mat.quant-gas · nucl-th

Viscosity spectral functions of the dilute Fermi gas in kinetic theory

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We compute the viscosity spectral function of the dilute Fermi gas for different values of the s-wave scattering length $a$, including the unitarity limit $a\to\infty$. We perform the calculation in kinetic theory by studying the response to a non-trivial background metric. We find the expected structure consisting of a diffusive peak in the transverse shear channel and a sound peak in the longitudinal channel. At zero momentum the width of the diffusive peak is $\omega_0\simeq (2\epsilon)/(3\eta)$ where $\epsilon$ is the energy density and $\eta$ is the shear viscosity. At finite momentum the spectral function approaches the collisionless limit and the width is of order $\omega_0\sim k(T/m)^{1/2}$.

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