Mediated interactions between Fermi polarons and the role of impurity quantum statistics
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| author | Baroni, Cosetta Huang, Bo Fritsche, Isabella Dobler, Erich Anich, Gregor Kirilov, Emil Grimm, Rudolf Bastarrachea-Magnani, Miguel A. Massignan, Pietro Bruun, Georg |
| author_facet | Baroni, Cosetta Huang, Bo Fritsche, Isabella Dobler, Erich Anich, Gregor Kirilov, Emil Grimm, Rudolf Bastarrachea-Magnani, Miguel A. Massignan, Pietro Bruun, Georg |
| contents | The notion of quasi-particles is essential for understanding the behaviour of complex many-body systems. A prototypical example of a quasi-particle, a polaron, is an impurity strongly interacting with a surrounding medium. Fermi polarons, created in a Fermi sea, provide a paradigmatic realization of this concept. As an inherent and important property such quasi-particles interact with each other via modulation of the medium. While quantum simulation experiments with ultracold atoms have significantly improved our understanding of individual polarons, the detection of their interactions has remained elusive in these systems. Here, we report the unambiguous observation of mediated interactions between Fermi polarons consisting of K impurities embedded in a Fermi sea of Li atoms. Our results confirm two landmark predictions of Landau's Fermi-liquid theory: the shift of the polaron energy due to mediated interactions, linear in the concentration of impurities, and its sign inversion with impurity quantum statistics. For weak to moderate interactions between the impurities and the medium, we find excellent agreement with the static (zero-momentum and energy) predictions of Fermi-liquid theory. For stronger impurity-medium interactions, we show that the observed behaviour at negative energies can be explained by a more refined many-body treatment including retardation and molecule formation |
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| spellingShingle | Mediated interactions between Fermi polarons and the role of impurity quantum statistics Baroni, Cosetta Huang, Bo Fritsche, Isabella Dobler, Erich Anich, Gregor Kirilov, Emil Grimm, Rudolf Bastarrachea-Magnani, Miguel A. Massignan, Pietro Bruun, Georg Quantum Gases Atomic Physics Quantum Physics The notion of quasi-particles is essential for understanding the behaviour of complex many-body systems. A prototypical example of a quasi-particle, a polaron, is an impurity strongly interacting with a surrounding medium. Fermi polarons, created in a Fermi sea, provide a paradigmatic realization of this concept. As an inherent and important property such quasi-particles interact with each other via modulation of the medium. While quantum simulation experiments with ultracold atoms have significantly improved our understanding of individual polarons, the detection of their interactions has remained elusive in these systems. Here, we report the unambiguous observation of mediated interactions between Fermi polarons consisting of K impurities embedded in a Fermi sea of Li atoms. Our results confirm two landmark predictions of Landau's Fermi-liquid theory: the shift of the polaron energy due to mediated interactions, linear in the concentration of impurities, and its sign inversion with impurity quantum statistics. For weak to moderate interactions between the impurities and the medium, we find excellent agreement with the static (zero-momentum and energy) predictions of Fermi-liquid theory. For stronger impurity-medium interactions, we show that the observed behaviour at negative energies can be explained by a more refined many-body treatment including retardation and molecule formation |
| title | Mediated interactions between Fermi polarons and the role of impurity quantum statistics |
| topic | Quantum Gases Atomic Physics Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04915 |