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By using simple and efficient method we discuss properties of a single impurity immersed in three-dimensional Bose gas with the interaction between particles tuned to unitary limit. Particularly, adopting the mean-field-like approximation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-10-28 O. Hryhorchak , G. Panochko , V. Pastukhov

We use variational methods to study a spin impurity in a 1D Bose lattice gas. Both in the strongly interacting superfluid regime and the Mott regime we find that the impurity binds with a hole, forming a polaron. Our calculations for the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-11-05 Shovan Dutta , Erich J. Mueller

We discuss the ground state properties of a one-dimensional bosonic system doped with an impurity (the so-called Bose polaron problem). We introduce a formalism that allows us to calculate analytically the thermodynamic zero-temperature…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-01-23 A. G. Volosniev , H. -W. Hammer

We investigate the formation of magnetic Bose polaron, an impurity atom dressed by spin-wave excitations, in a one-dimensional spinor Bose gas. In terms of an effective potential model the impurity is strongly confined by the host…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-09-28 S. I. Mistakidis , G. M. Koutentakis , F. Grusdt , P. Schmelcher , H. R. Sadeghpour

Polaron quasiparticles are formed when a mobile impurity is coupled to the elementary excitations of a many-particle background. In the field of ultracold atoms, the study of the associated impurity problem has attracted a growing interest…

Recently created self-bound quantum droplets of binary Bose mixtures open intriguing possibilities for the study of impurity physics. We show that the properties of impurities embedded in quasi-one-dimensional droplets are determined by the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-08-21 Sudip Sinha , Sayak Biswas , L. Santos , S. Sinha

Quantum impurities interacting with quantum environments offer unique insights into many-body systems. Here, we explore the thermometric potential of a neutral impurity immersed in a harmonically trapped bosonic quantum gas below the…

The presence of strong interactions in a many-body quantum system can lead to a variety of exotic effects. Here we show that even in a comparatively simple setup consisting of a charged impurity in a weakly interacting bosonic medium the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-05-13 G. E. Astrakharchik , L. A. Peña Ardila , R. Schmidt , K. Jachymski , A. Negretti

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…

Recently, two independent experiments reported the observation of long-lived polarons in a Bose-Einstein condensate, providing an excellent setting to study the generic scenario of a mobile impurity interacting with a quantum reservoir.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-06-19 L. A. Peña Ardila , N. B. Jörgensen , T. Pohl , S. Giorgini , G. M. Bruun , J. J. Arlt

This study develops a novel experimental method of deducing the profile of interaction induced between impurities in a trapped gas of ultracold Fermi/Bose atoms, which are often referred to as Fermi/Bose polarons. In this method, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-05-05 Junichi Takahashi , Hiroyuki Tajima , Eiji Nakano , Kei Iida

We explore the ground-state properties of a single impurity immersed in a one-dimensional quantum droplet medium formed by a two-component Bose mixture. Relying on ab-initio simulations, we demonstrate that tuning the impurity-droplet…

Polarons have emerged as a powerful concept across many-fields in physics to study an impurity coupled to a quantum bath. The interplay between impurity physics and the formation of composite objects remains a relevant problem to understand…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-06-24 Luis A. Peña Ardila , Arturo Camacho-Guardian

We have calculated the zero-temperature binding energy of a single impurity atom immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate of ultracold atoms that are trapped in an axially symmetric harmonic potential, where the impurity interacts with…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-04-05 Eiji Nakano , Hiroyuki Yabu , Kei Iida

We investigate a Bose-Einstein condensate in strong interaction with a single impurity particle. While this situation has received considerable interest in recent years, the regime of strong coupling remained inaccessible to most approaches…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-02-02 Moritz Drescher , Manfred Salmhofer , Tilman Enss

We unravel the many-body dynamics of a harmonically trapped impurity colliding with a bosonic medium confined in a double-well upon quenching the initially displaced harmonic trap to the center of the double-well. We reveal that the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-04-28 Friethjof Theel , Kevin Keiler , Simeon I. Mistakidis , Peter Schmelcher

We explore the impact and scaling of effective interactions between two and three impurity atoms, induced by a bosonic medium, on their density distributions. To facilitate the detection of mediated interactions, we propose a setup where…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-03 F. Theel , A. G. Volosniev , D. Diplaris , F. Brauneis , S. I. Mistakidis , P. Schmelcher

The mobile impurity in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is a paradigmatic many-body problem. For weak interaction between the impurity and the BEC, the impurity deforms the BEC only slightly and it is well described within the Fr\"ohlich…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-09-14 Richard Schmidt , Tilman Enss

We explore repulsive Fermi polarons in one-dimensional harmonically trapped few-body mixtures of ultracold atoms using as a case example a $^6$Li-$^{40}$K mixture. A characterization of these quasiparticle-like states, whose appearance is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-04-22 S. I. Mistakidis , G. C. Katsimiga , G. M. Koutentakis , P. Schmelcher

We address the Bose polaron problem of a mobile impurity interacting strongly with a host Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) through a Feshbach resonance. On the repulsive side at strong couplings, theoretical approaches predict two distinct…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-01 Nader Mostaan , Nathan Goldman , Fabian Grusdt