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Thermal crossover, transition, and coexistence in Fermi polaronic spectroscopies

Quantum Gases 2019-06-19 v2

Abstract

We investigate thermal evolution of radio-frequency (RF) spectra of a spin-imbalanced Fermi gas near a Feshbach resonance in which degenerate Fermi-polaron and classical Boltzmann-gas regimes emerge in the low-temperature and high-temperature limits, respectively. By using a self-consistent framework of strong-coupling diagrammatic approaches, both of the ejection and reserve RF spectra available in cold-atom experiments are analyzed. We find a variety of transfers from Fermi polarons to Boltzmann gas such that a thermal crossover expected in the weak-coupling regime is shifted to a sharp transition near unitarity and to double-peak coexistence of attractive and repulsive branches in the strong-coupling regime. Our theory provides semiquantitative descriptions for a recent experiment on the ejection RF spectroscopy at unitarity [Z. Yan {\it et al}., arXiv:1811.00481v1] and demonstrate that the RF spectroscopy is an essential probe to examine effects of strong correlations and finite temperature.

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@article{arxiv.1812.05889,
  title  = {Thermal crossover, transition, and coexistence in Fermi polaronic spectroscopies},
  author = {Hiroyuki Tajima and Shun Uchino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.05889},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Revised version, 5 pages and 5 figures