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Real-space dynamics of attractive and repulsive polarons in Bose-Einstein condensates

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We investigate the formation of a Bose polaron when a single impurity in a Bose-Einstein condensate is quenched from a noninteracting to an attractively interacting state in the vicinity of a Feshbach resonance. We use a beyond-Fröhlich Hamiltonian to describe both sides of the resonance and a cohe...

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Main Authors: Drescher, Moritz (Author) , Salmhofer, Manfred (Author) , Enss, Tilman (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 1 February 2019
In: Physical review
Year: 2019, Volume: 99, Issue: 2
ISSN:2469-9934
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.99.023601
Online Access:Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.99.023601
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Author Notes:Moritz Drescher, Manfred Salmhofer, and Tilman Enss
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Summary:We investigate the formation of a Bose polaron when a single impurity in a Bose-Einstein condensate is quenched from a noninteracting to an attractively interacting state in the vicinity of a Feshbach resonance. We use a beyond-Fröhlich Hamiltonian to describe both sides of the resonance and a coherent-state variational ansatz to compute the time evolution of Boson density profiles in position space. We find that on the repulsive side of the Feshbach resonance, the Bose polaron performs long-lived oscillations, which is surprising given that the two-body problem has only one bound state coupled to a continuum. They arise due to interference between multiply occupied bound states and therefore can be only found with many-body approaches, such as the coherent-state ansatz. This is a distinguishing feature of the Bose polaron compared to the Fermi polaron, where the bound state can be occupied only once. We derive an implicit equation for the frequency of these oscillations and show that it can be approximated by the energy of the two-body bound state. Finally, we consider an impurity introduced at nonzero velocity and find that, on the repulsive side, it is periodically slowed down or even arrested before speeding up again.
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ISSN:2469-9934
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.99.023601

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