Three-Body Losses in Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensed Gases

A time-dependent Kohn-Sham (KS)-like equation for N bosons in a trap is generalized for the case of inelastic collisions. We derive adiabatic equations which are used to calculate the nonlinear dynamics of the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and non-mean field corrections due to the three-body recombination. We find that the calculated corrections are about 13 times larger for 3D trapped dilute bose gases and about 7 times larger for 1D trapped weakly interacting bose gases when compared with the corresponding corrections for the ground state energy and for the collective frequencies.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figure

Cold Bose Gases near Feshbach Resonances

The lowest order constrained variational method [Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 210403 (2002)] has been generalized for a dilute (in the sense that the range of interatomic potential is small compared with inter-particle spacing) uniform gas of bosons near the Feshbach resonance using the multi-channel zero-range potential model. The method has been applied to Na (F=1, m_F=1) atoms near the $B_0=907$G Feshbach resonance. It is shown that at high densities, there are significant differences between our results for the real part of energy per particle and the one-channel zero-range potential approximation. We point out the possibility of stabilization of the uniform con densate for the case of negative scattering length.Comment: Revised version of cond-mat/0212196. Added Eqs. (21,22) and references for section

Hydrodynamic Modes in a Trapped Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases of Atoms

The zero-temperature properties of a dilute two-component Fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover are investigated. On the basis of a generalization of the variational Schwinger method, we construct approximate semi-analytical formulae for collective frequencies of the radial and the axial breathing modes of the Fermi gas under harmonic confinement in the framework of the hydrodynamic theory. It is shown that the method gives nearly exact solutions.Comment: 11 page

Dynamics of the Free Surface of a Conducting Liquid in a Near-Critical Electric Field

Near-critical behavior of the free surface of an ideally conducting liquid in an external electric field is considered. Based on an analysis of three-wave processes using the method of integral estimations, sufficient criteria for hard instability of a planar surface are formulated. It is shown that the higher-order nonlinearities do not saturate the instability, for which reason the growth of disturbances has an explosive character.Comment: 19 page

Calculation of shear viscosity using Green-Kubo relations within a parton cascade

The shear viscosity of a gluon gas is calculated using the Green-Kubo relation. Time correlations of the energy-momentum tensor in thermal equilibrium are extracted from microscopic simulations using a parton cascade solving various Boltzmann collision processes. We find that the pQCD based gluon bremsstrahlung described by Gunion-Bertsch processes significantly lowers the shear viscosity by a factor of 3-8 compared to elastic scatterings. The shear viscosity scales with the coupling as 1/(alpha_s^2\log(1/alpha_s)). For a constant coupling constant the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio has no dependence on temperature. Replacing the pQCD-based collision angle distribution of binary scatterings by an isotropic form decreases the shear viscosity by a factor of 3.Comment: 17 pages, 5 figure