Exact Perturbative Expansion of the Transport Coefficients of a Normal Low-Temperature Fermi Gas with Contact Interactions
We compute the shear viscosity, thermal conductivity, and spin diffusivity of a Fermi gas with short-range interactions in the Fermi liquid regime of the normal phase, that is, at temperatures T much lower than the Fermi temperature T_{F} and larger than the superfluid critical temperature T_{c}. In line with recent advances in the precision of cold atom experiments, we provide exact results up to the second order in the interaction strength. We extend the Landau-Salpeter equation to compute the collision amplitude beyond the forward-scattering limit, covering all collisions on the Fermi surface. We treat the collision kernel exactly, leading to significant corrections beyond relaxation-time or variational approximations. The transport coefficients, as functions of the s wave scattering length a and Fermi wave number k_{F}, follow (1+γk_{F}a)/a^{2} up to corrections of order O(a^{0}), with a positive coefficient γ for the viscosity and negative one for the thermal conductivity and spin diffusivity.
Authors
- Hadrien Kurkjian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6054-8180)
- Pierre-Louis Taillat (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1568-7105)
Institutions
- Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Published
- 2025-09-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/c6fd-x57s
- Primary Topic
- Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche