Published December 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Many-polaron description of impurities in a Bose-Einstein condensate in the weak-coupling regime

  • 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.

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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

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(c) 2011 American Institute of Physics