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Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 240406 (2008) [4 pages]

Collisional Properties of a Polarized Fermi Gas with Resonant Interactions

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G. M. Bruun1,2, A. Recati1, C. J. Pethick2,3, H. Smith2, and S. Stringari1
1Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento and CNR-INFM BEC Center, I-38050 Povo, Trento, Italy
2Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
3NORDITA, Roslagstullsbacken 21, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden

Received 11 April 2008; published 19 June 2008

Highly polarized mixtures of atomic Fermi gases constitute a novel Fermi liquid. We demonstrate how information on thermodynamic properties may be used to calculate quasiparticle scattering amplitudes even when the interaction is resonant and apply the results to evaluate the damping of the spin dipole mode. We estimate that under current experimental conditions the mode would be intermediate between the hydrodynamic and collisionless limits.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.240406
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.240406
PACS:
03.75.Ss, 67.10.Db, 67.85.Lm