Quantum limited transport in ultracold atomic gases
- 👤 Speaker: Tilman Enss, TU München
- 📅 Date & Time: Thursday 31 January 2013, 14:15 - 15:15
- 📍 Venue: TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory
Abstract
Can a real fluid flow without friction? Following the conjecture that quantum mechanics imposes a universal lower bound on the shear viscosity, this question is being studied intensively in several fields of physics ranging from quark-gluon plasmas to ultracold atomic gases. I will review the origin of this bound and present results for the shear viscosity of strongly interacting Fermi gases. Motivated by a recent experiment with spin-polarized clouds of atoms, I will discuss the prospect of a quantum bound for spin transport.
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Tilman Enss, TU München
Thursday 31 January 2013, 14:15-15:15