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arXiv:cond-mat/9804193 · Physical Review Letters

Relaxation Processes in Clouds of Trapped Bosons above the Bose-Einstein Condensation Temperature

G. M. Kavoulakis, C. J. Pethick, H. Smith

Published Nov 9, 1998• 19 citations
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Abstract

We present a unified account of damping of low-lying collective modes and of relaxation of temperature anisotropies in a trapped Bose gas in the collisionless regime. By means of variational techniques, we show that the relaxation times for the two situations are closely related to the simplest variational estimate of the viscous relaxation time. We derive rather precise theoretical expressions for the characteristic relaxation times and compare our results with experiment.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.81.4036

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We calculate the damping of low-lying collective modes of a trapped Bose gas in the hydrodynamic regime, and show that this comes solely from the shear viscosity, since the contributions from bulk viscosity and thermal conduction vanish. The hydrodynamic expression for the damping diverges due to the failure of hydrodynamics in the outer parts of the cloud, and we take this into account by a physically motivated cutoff procedure. Our analysis of available experimental data indicates that higher densities than have yet been achieved are necessary for investigating hydrodynamic modes above the Bose-Einstein transition temperature.