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Bose polarons at finite temperature and strong coupling

Quantum Gases 2018-02-08 v2

Abstract

The temperature dependence of a mobile impurity in a dilute Bose gas, the Bose polaron, is investigated for wide a range of impurity-bath interactions. Using a diagrammatic resummation scheme designed to include scattering processes important at finite temperature TT, we show that the phase transition of the environment to a Bose-Einstein condensate at the critical temperature TcT_c leads to several non-trivial effects. The attractive polaron present at T=0T=0 fragments into two quasiparticle states for finite temperature whenever aaB|a|\gtrsim a_B, with aa and aBa_B the impurity-boson and boson-boson scattering lengths. While the quasiparticle with higher energy disappears at TcT_c, the ground state quasiparticle remains well-defined across TcT_c. Its energy depends non-monotonically on temperature, featuring a minimum at TcT_c, after which it increases towards zero, and at TTcT\gg T_c the polaron eventually becomes overdamped due to strong scattering with thermally excited bosons.

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@article{arxiv.1708.08861,
  title  = {Bose polarons at finite temperature and strong coupling},
  author = {Nils-Eric Guenther and Pietro Massignan and Maciej Lewenstein and Georg M. Bruun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.08861},
  year   = {2018}
}

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4 pages, 5 figures