Counterflow of lattice polarons in harmonically confined optical lattices

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Autori principali: Isaule, Felipe, Rojo-Francàs, Abel, Morales-Molina, Luis, Juliá-Díaz, Bruno
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author Isaule, Felipe
Rojo-Francàs, Abel
Morales-Molina, Luis
Juliá-Díaz, Bruno
author_facet Isaule, Felipe
Rojo-Francàs, Abel
Morales-Molina, Luis
Juliá-Díaz, Bruno
contents We study a mobile impurity in a one-dimensional harmonically confined optical lattice interacting repulsively with a bosonic bath. The behavior of the impurity across baths with superfluid and Mott-insulator domains is examined, including its full back-action effect on the bath. We characterize the bath-impurity phase diagram and reveal the appearance of a correlated counterflow phase, which we support with an analytical model for a mobile impurity-hole pair. This phase shows an extended combined insulator domain of unity filling but no independent domain of constant density. The transition to this phase features a sudden orthogonality and the change of the shape of the impurity's profile to that of a free particle in an infinite square well. The findings of this work suggest the appearance of unconventional counterflow in trapped imbalanced atomic mixtures.
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spellingShingle Counterflow of lattice polarons in harmonically confined optical lattices
Isaule, Felipe
Rojo-Francàs, Abel
Morales-Molina, Luis
Juliá-Díaz, Bruno
Quantum Gases
Atomic Physics
Quantum Physics
We study a mobile impurity in a one-dimensional harmonically confined optical lattice interacting repulsively with a bosonic bath. The behavior of the impurity across baths with superfluid and Mott-insulator domains is examined, including its full back-action effect on the bath. We characterize the bath-impurity phase diagram and reveal the appearance of a correlated counterflow phase, which we support with an analytical model for a mobile impurity-hole pair. This phase shows an extended combined insulator domain of unity filling but no independent domain of constant density. The transition to this phase features a sudden orthogonality and the change of the shape of the impurity's profile to that of a free particle in an infinite square well. The findings of this work suggest the appearance of unconventional counterflow in trapped imbalanced atomic mixtures.
title Counterflow of lattice polarons in harmonically confined optical lattices
topic Quantum Gases
Atomic Physics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09448