Mass-gap description of heavy impurities in fermi gases

We present a unified theory that connects the quasiparticle picture of Fermi polarons for mobile impurities to the Anderson orthogonality catastrophe for static impurities. By operator reordering of the underlying many-body Hamiltonian, we obtain a modified fermionic dispersion relation that feature...

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Hauptverfasser: Chen, Xin (VerfasserIn) , Dizer, Eugen (VerfasserIn) , Rodríguez, Emilio Ramos (VerfasserIn) , Schmidt, Richard (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 6 November 2025
In: Physical review letters
Year: 2025, Jahrgang: 135, Heft: 19, Pages: 1-7
ISSN:1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/h2f7-dhjh
Online-Zugang:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1103/h2f7-dhjh
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Verfasserangaben:Xin Chen, Eugen Dizer, Emilio Ramos Rodríguez, and Richard Schmidt
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Zusammenfassung:We present a unified theory that connects the quasiparticle picture of Fermi polarons for mobile impurities to the Anderson orthogonality catastrophe for static impurities. By operator reordering of the underlying many-body Hamiltonian, we obtain a modified fermionic dispersion relation that features a recoil-induced energy gap, which we call the “mass gap.” We show that the resulting mean-field Hamiltonian exhibits an in-gap state for finite impurity mass, which takes a key role in Fermi polaron and molecule formation. We identify the mass gap as the microscopic origin of the quasiparticle weight of Fermi polarons and derive a power-law scaling of the weight with the impurity-to-fermion mass ratio. The associated in-gap state is shown to give rise to the emergence of the polaron-to-molecule transition away from the limiting case of the Anderson orthogonality catastrophe in which the transition is absent.
Beschreibung:Veröffentlicht: 6. November 2025
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ISSN:1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/h2f7-dhjh