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Drag in Bose-Fermi Mixtures

Quantum Gases 2021-03-12 v2

Abstract

We use kinetic theory to model the dynamics of a small Bose condensed cloud of heavy particles moving through a larger degenerate Fermi gas of light particles. Varying the Bose-Fermi interaction, we find a crossover between bulk and surface dominated regimes -- where scattering occurs throughout the Bose cloud, or solely on the surface. We calculate the damping and frequency shift of the dipole mode in a harmonic trap as a function of the magnetic field controlling an inter-species Feshbach resonance. We find excellent agreement between our stochastic model and the experimental studies of Cs-Li mixtures.

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@article{arxiv.2008.04083,
  title  = {Drag in Bose-Fermi Mixtures},
  author = {Kai Yen Jee and Erich J. Mueller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.04083},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

10 pages, 7 figures

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