Quantum critical thermal transport in the unitary Fermi gas
B. Frank, W. Zwerger, Tilman Enss
Abstract
The authors calculate thermal transport and the damping of sound in a unitary Fermi gas. In the quantum critical regime, thermal diffusion follows a universal scaling law and reaches a limit set by the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics
Topics & Concepts
Unitary statePhysicsFermi gasQuantum mechanicsScalingQuantumThermalThermodynamicsMathematicsLawGeometryPolitical scienceElectronQuantum, superfluid, helium dynamicsCold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein CondensatesQuantum many-body systems