Medium-induced interaction between impurities in a Bose-Einstein condensate

We consider two heavy particles immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate in three dimensions and compute their mutual interaction induced by excitations of the medium. For an ideal Bose gas, the induced interaction is Newtonian up to a shift in distance, which depends on the coupling strength between...

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Hauptverfasser: Drescher, Moritz (VerfasserIn) , Salmhofer, Manfred (VerfasserIn) , Enss, Tilman (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2023
In: Physical review
Year: 2023, Jahrgang: 107, Heft: 6, Pages: 1-7
ISSN:2469-9934
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.107.063301
Online-Zugang:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.063301
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Verfasserangaben:Moritz Drescher, Manfred Salmhofer, and Tilman Enss
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Zusammenfassung:We consider two heavy particles immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate in three dimensions and compute their mutual interaction induced by excitations of the medium. For an ideal Bose gas, the induced interaction is Newtonian up to a shift in distance, which depends on the coupling strength between impurities and Bosons. For a real BEC, we find that, on short distances, the induced potential is dominated by three-body physics of a single Boson bound to the impurities, leading to an Efimov potential. At large distances of the order of the healing length, a Yukawa potential emerges instead. In particular, we find that both regimes are realized for all impurity-boson couplings and determine the corresponding crossover scales. The transition from the real to the ideal condensate at low gas parameters is investigated.
Beschreibung:Veröffentlicht: 6. Juni 2023
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ISSN:2469-9934
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.107.063301