Spin caloritronics in noncondensed Bose gases.

Autor: Wong CH; Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands., van Driel HJ, Kittinaradorn R, Stoof HT, Duine RA
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2012 Feb 17; Vol. 108 (7), pp. 075301. Date of Electronic Publication: 2012 Feb 13.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.075301
Abstrakt: We consider coupled spin and heat transport in a two-component atomic Bose gas in the noncondensed state. We find that the transport coefficients show a temperature dependence reflecting the bosonic enhancement of scattering and discuss experimental signatures of the spin-heat coupling in spin accumulation, spin separation, and total dissipation. Close to the critical temperature for Bose-Einstein condensation, we find that the spin-heat coupling is strongly reduced, which is also reflected in the spin caloritronics figure of merit that determines the thermodynamic efficiency of spin-heat conversion.
Databáze: MEDLINE