Published December 2015 | Version v1
Journal article

Neutral impurities in a Bose-Einstein condensate for simulation of the Froehlich-polaron

  • 1. University of Kaiserslautern, Department of Physics and Research Center OPTIMAS, Kaiserslautern (Germany)
  • 2. Graduate School Materials Science in Mainz, Kaiserslautern (Germany)

Description

We present an experimental system to study the Bose polaron by immersion of single, well-controllable neutral Cs impurities into a Rb Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). We show that, by proper optical traps, independent control over impurity and BEC allows for precision relative positioning of the two sub-systems as well as for dynamical studies and independent read-out. We furthermore estimate that measuring the polaron binding energy of Froehlich-type Bose polarons in the low and intermediate coupling regime is feasible with our experimental constraints and limitations discussed, and we outline how a parameter regime can be reached to characterize differences between Froehlich and Bose-polaron in the strong coupling regime. (orig.)

Availability note (English)

Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-015-0036-y

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
EPJ Quantum Technology
Journal Volume
2
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 1-15
ISSN
2196-0763

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