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An impurity in a heteronuclear two-component Bose mixture

Quantum Gases 2022-08-17 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Statistical Mechanics Quantum Physics

Abstract

We study the fate of an impurity in an ultracold heteronuclear Bose mixture, focusing on the experimentally relevant case of a 41^{41}K-87^{87}Rb mixture, with the impurity in a 41^{41}K hyperfine state. Our work provides a comprehensive description of an impurity in a BEC mixture with contact interactions across its phase diagram. We present results for the miscible and immiscible regimes, as well as for the impurity in a self-bound quantum droplet. Here, varying the interactions, we find novel, exotic states where the impurity localizes either at the center or at the surface of the droplet.

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@article{arxiv.2109.07451,
  title  = {An impurity in a heteronuclear two-component Bose mixture},
  author = {Giacomo Bighin and Alessia Burchianti and Francesco Minardi and Tommaso Macrì},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.07451},
  year   = {2022}
}

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5 pages and 4 figures, 5 pages and 2 figures (Supplemental material). Updated references

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