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Bose polarons, quasi-particles composed of mobile impurities surrounded by cold Bose gas, can experience strong interactions mediated by the many-body environment and form bipolaron bound states. Here we present a detailed study of heavy…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-09-02 Martin Will , Gregory E. Astrakharchik , Michael Fleischhauer

We consider a quantum impurity immersed in a dipolar Bose Einstein condensate and study the properties of the emerging polaron. We calculate the energy, effective mass and quasi-particle residue of the dipolar polaron and investigate their…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-12-17 L. A. Peña Ardila , T. Pohl

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

Polarons, self-localized composite objects formed by the interaction of a single impurity particle with a host medium, are a paradigm of strong interaction many-body physics. We show that dilute gas Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC's) are the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-04-30 A. A. Blinova , M. G. Boshier , Eddy Timmermans

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

A neutral impurity atom immersed in a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) can have a bound ground state in which the impurity is self-localized. In this small polaron-like state, the impurity distorts the density of the surrounding BEC,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Fernando M. Cucchietti , Eddy Timmermans

We investigate the effects of a nearly uniform Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) on the properties of immersed trapped impurity atoms. Using a weak-coupling expansion in the BEC-impurity interaction strength, we derive a model describing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Martin Bruderer , Alexander Klein , Stephen R. Clark , Dieter Jaksch

Important properties of complex quantum many-body systems and their phase diagrams can often already be inferred from the impurity limit. The Bose polaron problem describing an impurity atom immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate is a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-06 Arthur Christianen , J. Ignacio Cirac , Richard Schmidt

We describe the ground state of a large, dilute, neutral atom Bose- Einstein condensate (BEC) doped with N strongly coupled mutually indistinguishable, bosonic neutral atoms (referred to as "impurity") in the polaron regime where the BEC…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-07 D. H. Santamore , Eddy Timmermans

We discuss properties of a single impurity atom immersed in the spin-$1/2$ dilute Fermi gas with equal populations of two species in the deep Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) phase. In this limit, when an almost undepleted BEC of the tightly…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-11-16 O. Hryhorchak , V. Pastukhov

We use a class of variational wave functions to study the properties of an impurity in a Bose-Einstein condensate, i.e. the "Bose polaron". The impurity interacts with the condensate through a contact interaction, which can be tuned by a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-07-18 Weiran Li , S. Das Sarma

We study the properties of the Bose polaron, an impurity strongly interacting with a Bose-Einstein condensate, using a field-theoretic approach and make predictions for the spectral function and various quasiparticle properties that can be…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-12-17 Steffen Patrick Rath , Richard Schmidt

We develop a renormalization group approach for analyzing Fr\"ohlich polarons and apply it to a problem of impurity atoms immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate of ultra cold atoms. Polaron energies obtained by our method are in excellent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-05-03 F. Grusdt , Y. E. Shchadilova , A. N. Rubtsov , E. Demler

We study the motion of a heavy impurity immersed in a weakly interacting BEC using the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPe). We construct a perturbative solution to the GPe in powers of impurity velocity in the case when the boson-impurity…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-05-25 Nikolay Yegovtsev , Victor Gurarie

Mobile impurities interacting with a quantum medium form quasiparticles known as polarons, a central concept in many-body physics. While the quantum impurity problem has been extensively studied with ultracold atomic gases, repulsive…

We consider two heavy impurities immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate, and calculate the self-energy using the Wilsonian renormalization. The polaron energy, quasiparticle residue and damping rate are extracted from the self-energy. We…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-03-04 Dong-Chen Zheng , Lin Wen , Renyuan Liao

We discuss the interaction of a mobile quantum impurity with a Bose-Einstein condensate of atoms at finite temperature. To describe the resulting Bose polaron formation we extend the dynamical variational approach of [Phys.Rev.Lett. 117,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-01 David Dzsotjan , Richard Schmidt , Michael Fleischhauer

Recently achieved chiral condensates open intriguing avenues for the study of the chiral properties induced by current-density interactions. An attempt to include these features in a spinor system is presented, which gives rise to a…

We investigate the non-equilibrium dynamics of an impurity coupled to a Bose-Einstein condensate, systematically compared with recent experimental results [M. G. Skou et al., Nat. Phys. (2021)]. The dynamics of the impurity is tracked down…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-03-29 L. A. Peña Ardila

The application of optical lattices allows a tuning of the geometry of Bose-Einstein condensates to effectively reduced dimensions. In the context of solid state physics the consideration of the low-dimensional Fr\"ohlich polaron results in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-11-14 W. Casteels , J. Tempere , J. T. Devreese