Eur. Phys. J. D (2012) 66: 45
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2012-20292-5

Regular Article

Temporal damping of the axial breathing mode in a trapped unitary Fermi gas

¹ Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, P.R. China
² School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430073, P.R. China

^a e-mail: zblu@iopp.ccnu.edu.cn

Received: 18 May 2011
Received in final form: 16 December 2011
Published online: 24 February 2012

Abstract

The damping rate of the collective modes of the unitary Fermi gas is an important experimental observable. It varies with experimental conditions, and provides information about the viscosity. In this paper, we simulate the axial breathing modes basing on viscous hydrodynamics, and extract the concrete relation between the temporal damping rate and the experimental parameters: viscosity, atom number and the trap frequencies.