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Motivated by recent experiments, we investigate a single $^{133}\text{Cs}$ impurity in the center of a trapped $^{87}\text{Rb}$ Bose-Einstein condensate. Within a zero-temperature mean-field description we provide a one-dimensional physical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-03-15 Javed Akram , Axel Pelster

In ultracold atomic gases, a unique interplay arises between phenomena known from condensed matter physics, few-body physics and chemistry. Similar to an electron in a solid, an impurity in an ultracold gas can get dressed by excitations…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-19 Arthur Christianen , J. Ignacio Cirac , Richard Schmidt

An impurity immersed in a Bose condensate can form a quasiparticle known as a Bose polaron. When the impurity-boson interaction is short-ranged, the quasiparticle properties can be characterized in terms of the impurity-boson scattering…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-06 T. Alper Yoğurt , Matthew T. Eiles

Mobile impurity atoms immersed in Bose-Einstein condensates provide a new platform for exploring Bose polarons. Recent experimental advances in the field of ultracold atoms make it possible to realize such systems with highly tunable…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-22 Fabian Grusdt , Gregory E. Astrakharchik , Eugene A. Demler

An impurity immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate is no longer accurately described by the Fr\"ohlich Hamiltonian as the coupling between the impurity and the boson bath gets stronger. We study the dominant effects of the two-phonon terms…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-28 Timour Ichmoukhamedov , Jacques Tempere

We investigate how the presence of a localized impurity in a Bose-Einstein condensate of trapped cold atoms that interact with each other weakly and repulsively affects the profile of the condensed and excited components at zero…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-09-04 Junichi Takahashi , Ryosuke Imai , Eiji Nakano , Kei Iida

We discuss the response of a Bose-Einstein condensate to a change in the scattering length, which is experimentally realized by tuning the magnetic field near a Feshbach resonance. In particular, we consider the collapse of the condensate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-13 R. A. Duine , H. T. C. Stoof

The supersolid phase of a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate has an intriguing excitation spectrum displaying a band structure. Here, the dressing of an impurity in a one-dimensional dipolar supersolid with the excitations of the supersolid…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-03-03 Laurent H. A. Simons , Michiel Wouters , Jacques Tempere

We study the problem of a single impurity of mass $M$ immersed in a Fermi sea of particles of mass $m$. The impurity and the fermions interact through a s-wave narrow Feshbach resonance, so that the Feshbach length $R_*$ naturally appears…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-03 Christian Trefzger , Yvan Castin

In this paper we study an impurity in Bose-Einstein-Condensate system at $T=0K$ and suppose the contact forms for boson-boson and boson-impurity interactions. Using Bogoliubov theory and a further approximation corresponding to only think…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-05-19 Beibing Huang , Shaolong Wan

The Bose polaron is a quasiparticle that arises from the interaction between impurities and Bogoliubov excitation in Bose-Einstein condensates, analogous to the polaron formed by electrons and phonons in solid-state physics. In this paper,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-08-30 Ning Liu

We show that s-wave scattering resonances induced by dipolar interactions in a polar molecular gas have a universal large and positive effective range, which is very different from Feshbach resonances realized in cold atoms before, where…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-04-05 Zhe-Yu Shi , Ran Qi , Hui Zhai

We study the motion of an impurity under the action of a constant force through a one-dimensional system of weakly-interacting bosons. The interplay of the impurity-boson interaction, the boson-boson interaction, and the driving force gives…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-09 Saptarshi Majumdar , Aleksandra Petković

We consider a single impurity atom confined to an optical lattice and immersed in a homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). Interaction of the impurity with the phonon modes of the BEC leads to the formation of a stable quasiparticle,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-12-10 Fabian Grusdt , Aditya Shashi , Dmitry Abanin , Eugene Demler

We produce Bose-Einstein condensates of $^{162}$Dy atoms employing an innovative technique based on a resonator-enhanced optical trap that allows efficient loading from the magneto-optical trap and fast evaporation. We characterize the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-01-10 E. Lucioni , L. Tanzi , A. Fregosi , J. Catani , S. Gozzini , M. Inguscio , A. Fioretti , C. Gabbanini , G. Modugno

We study theoretically the superfluidity and stability of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) whose interatomic scattering length is periodically modulated with optical Feshbach resonance. Our numerical study finds that the properties of this…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-02-08 Shao-Liang Zhang , Zheng-Wei Zhou , Biao Wu

We consider an impurity immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate with tunable boson-impurity interactions. Such a Bose polaron has recently been predicted to exhibit an intriguing energy spectrum at finite temperature, where the ground-state…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-01-29 Bernard Field , Jesper Levinsen , Meera M. Parish

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…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-02-08 Nils-Eric Guenther , Pietro Massignan , Maciej Lewenstein , Georg M. Bruun

A new generation of cold atom experiments trapping atomic mixtures in species selective optical potentials opens up the intriguing possibility to create systems in which different atoms live in different spatial dimensions. Inspired by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-21 Niels Jakob Søe Loft , Zhigang Wu , Georg M. Bruun

We consider the problem of unitary Bose polarons, i.e., impurities interacting via a potential with infinite scattering length with a bath of weakly interacting bosons. We provide an analytic expression for the energy of a heavy impurity…