Universal spin transport in a strongly interacting Fermi gas

Nature

Volumn 472, Issue 7342, 2011, Pages 201-204

  Sommer, Ariel ^a   Ku, Mark ^a   Roati, Giacomo ^b,c   Zwierlein, Martin W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAS; HYDRODYNAMICS; INSULATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLASMA; RESONANCE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VISCOSITY;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMOS; FERMION; GAS DIFFUSION; GAS TRANSPORT; HYDRODYNAMICS; NEUTRINO; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 79954565212     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09989     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Wolf, S. A. Spintronics: a spin-based electronics vision for the future. Science 294, 1488-1495 (2001). (Pubitemid 33063913)
2. Burrows, A. Neutrinos from supernova explosions. Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 40, 181-212 (1990).
3. Schäfer, T. & Teaney, D.Nearly perfect fluidity: fromcold atomic gases to hot quark gluon plasmas. Rep. Prog. Phys. 72, 126001 (2009).
4. Inguscio, M., Ketterle, W. & Salomon, C. (eds) Ultracold Fermi Gases (Proc. Int. School of Physics 'Enrico Fermi', Course CLXIV, IOS, 2008).
5. O'Hara, K. M., Hemmer, S. L., Gehm, M. E., Granade, S. R. & Thomas, J. E. Observation of a strongly interacting degenerate Fermi gas of atoms. Science 298, 2179-2182 (2002). (Pubitemid 35471240)
6. Riedl, S. et al. Collective oscillations of a Fermi gas in the unitarity limit: temperature effects and the role of pair correlations. Phys. Rev. A 78, 053609 (2008).
7. Cao, C. et al. Universal quantum viscosity in a unitary Fermi gas. Science 331, 58-61 (2011).
8. Enss, T., Haussmann, R. & Zwerger, W. Viscosity and scale invariance in the unitary Fermi gas. Ann. Phys. 326, 770-796 (2011).
9. Jo, G.-B. et al. Itinerant ferromagnetism in a Fermi gas of ultracold atoms. Science 325, 1521-1524 (2009).
10. Stringari, S. Density and spin response function of a normal Fermi gas at unitarity. Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 110406 (2009).
11. Duine, R. A., Polini, M., Stoof, H. T. C. & Vignale, G. Spin drag in an ultracold Fermi gas on the verge of ferromagnetic instability. Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 220403 (2010).
12. D'Amico, I. & Vignale, G. Theory of spin Coulomb drag in spin-polarized transport. Phys. Rev. B 62, 4853-4857 (2000).
13. Weber, C. P. et al. Observation of spin Coulomb drag in a two-dimensional electron gas. Nature 437, 1330-1333 (2005). (Pubitemid 41568674)
14. D'Amico, I. & Vignale, G. Coulomb interaction effects in spin-polarized transport. Phys. Rev. B 65, 085109 (2002).
15. Gedik, N., Orenstein, J., Liang, R., Bonn, D. A. & Hardy, W. N. Diffusion of nonequilibrium quasi-particles in a cuprate superconductor. Science 300, 1410-1412 (2003). (Pubitemid 36638155)
16. Garwin, R. L. & Reich, H. A. Self-diffusion and nuclear relaxation in He3. Phys. Rev. 115, 1478-1492 (1959).
17. Anderson, A. C., Edwards, D. O., Roach, W. R., Sarwinski, R. E. & Wheatley, J. C. Thermal and magnetic properties of dilute solutions of He3 in He4 at low temperatures. Phys. Rev. Lett. 17, 367-372 (1966).
18. DeMarco, B. & Jin, D. S. Spin excitations in a Fermi gas of atoms. Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 040405 (2002).
19. Du, X., Luo, L., Clancy, B. & Thomas, J. E. Observation of anomalous spin segregation in a trapped Fermi gas. Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 150401 (2008).
20. Zwierlein, M. W., Schirotzek, A., Schunck, C. H. & Ketterle, W. Fermionic superfluidity with imbalanced spin populations. Science 311, 492-496 (2006). (Pubitemid 43157722)
21. Shin, Y., Zwierlein, M., Schunck, C., Schirotzek, A. & Ketterle, W. Observation of phase separation in a strongly interacting imbalanced Fermi gas. Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 030401 (2006).
22. Vichi, L. & Stringari, S. Collective oscillations of an interacting trapped Fermi gas. Phys. Rev. A 60, 4734-4737 (1999). (Pubitemid 129590348)
23. Nascimbène, S., Navon, N., Jiang, K. J., Chevy, F. & Salomon, C. Exploring the thermodynamics of a universal Fermi gas. Nature 463, 1057-1060 (2010).
24. Bruun, G. M., Recati, A., Petchick, C. J., Smith, H. & Stringari, S.Collisional properties of a polarized Fermi gas with resonant interactions. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 240406 (2008).
25. Bruun, G. M. Spin diffusion in Fermi gases. New J. Phys. 13, 035005 (2011).
26. Polini, M. & Vignale, G. Spin drag and spin-charge separation in cold Fermi gases. Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 266403 (2007).
27. Parish, M. M. & Huse, D. A. Evaporative depolarization and spin transport in a unitary trapped Fermi gas. Phys. Rev. A 80, 063605 (2009).
28. Gaebler, J. P. et al. Observation of pseudogap behavior in a strongly interacting Fermi gas. Nature Phys. 6, 569-573 (2010).
29. Perali, A. et al. Evolution of the normal state of a strongly interacting Fermi gas from a pseudogap phase to a molecular Bose gas. Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 060402 (2011).
30. Partridge, G. B., Li, W., Kamar, R. I., Liao, Y. & Hulet, R. G. Pairing and phase separation in a polarized Fermi gas. Science 311, 503-505 (2006). (Pubitemid 43157724)
31. Nascimbène, S. et al. Collective oscillations of an imbalanced Fermi gas: axial compression modes and polaron effective mass. Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 170402 (2009).
32. Ku, M. et al. Equation of state of a strongly interacting atomic Fermi gas. Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 55, abstr. W6. 00001 (2010); available at Æhttp://meetings.aps.org/ link/BAPS 2010.DAMOP.W6.1æ (2010).