dc.contributor.author | Duine, R. A. | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Polini, Marco | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Stoof, H. T. C. | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Vignale, Giovanni, 1957- | eng |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | eng |
dc.description | URL:http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.220403
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.220403 | eng |
dc.description.abstract | Recent experiments [Jo et al., Science 325, 1521 (2009)] have presented evidence of ferromagnetic correlations in a two- component ultracold Fermi gas with strong repulsive interactions. Motivated by these experiments we consider spin drag, i.e., frictional drag due to scattering of particles with opposite spin, in such systems. We show that when the ferromagnetic state is approached from the normal side, the spin drag relaxation rate is strongly enhanced near the critical point. We also determine the temperature dependence of the spin diffusion constant. In a trapped gas the spin drag relaxation rate determines the damping of the spin dipole mode, which therefore provides a precursor signal of the ferromagnetic phase transition that may be used to experimentally determine the proximity to the ferromagnetic phase. | eng |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported by the Stichting voor
Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM), the
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), and by the European Research Council (ERCStG 201350). G.V. acknowledges support from NSF Grant No. 0705460. | eng |
dc.identifier.citation | Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 220403 (2010) | eng |
dc.identifier.issn | 0031-9007 | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10355/7627 | eng |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.publisher | American Physical Society | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcollection | University of Missouri--Columbia. College of Arts and Sciences. Department of Physics and Astronomy. Physics and Astronomy publications | eng |
dc.subject | fermion systems and electron gas | eng |
dc.subject | ultracold gases | eng |
dc.subject | trapped gases | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Interacting boson-fermion models | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Wave-particle duality | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Electron gas | eng |
dc.title | Spin Drag in an Ultracold Fermi Gas on the Verge of Ferromagnetic Instability | eng |
dc.type | Article | eng |