Many-polaron description of impurities in a Bose-Einstein condensate in the weak-coupling regime
Creators
- 1. TQC, Universiteit Antwerpen, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerpen (Belgium)
- 2. Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 (United States)
Description
The weak-coupling many-polaron formalism is applied to the case of the polaronic system consisting of impurities in a Bose-Einstein condensate. This allows investigating the ground-state properties and the response of the system to Bragg spectroscopy. Then, this theory is applied to the system of spin-polarized fermionic lithium-6 impurities in a sodium condensate. The Bragg spectrum reveals a peak that corresponds to the emission of Bogoliubov excitations. Both the ground-state properties and the response spectrum show that the polaronic effect vanishes at high densities. We also look at two possibilities to define the polaronic effective mass and observe that this results in a different quantitative behavior if multiple impurities are involved.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.84.063612;
- arXiv
- arXiv:1109.1122v1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. A
- Journal Volume
- 84
- Journal Issue
- 6
- Journal Page Range
- p. 063612-063612.7
- ISSN
- 1050-2947
- CODEN
- PLRAAN
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 44053804
- Subject category
- S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; COUPLING; DENSITY; EFFECTIVE MASS; EXCITATION; FERMIONS; GROUND STATES; LITHIUM 6; POLARONS; SODIUM; SPECTROSCOPY; SPIN ORIENTATION
- Descriptors DEC
- ALKALI METALS; ELEMENTS; ENERGY LEVELS; ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS; ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; LITHIUM ISOTOPES; MASS; METALS; NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; ORIENTATION; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; QUASI PARTICLES; STABLE ISOTOPES
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics