Unified theory of attractive and repulsive polarons in one-dimensional Bose gas

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Main Authors: Yegovtsev, Nikolay, Yoğurt, T. Alper, Eiles, Matthew T., Gurarie, Victor
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Published: 2025
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author Yegovtsev, Nikolay
Yoğurt, T. Alper
Eiles, Matthew T.
Gurarie, Victor
author_facet Yegovtsev, Nikolay
Yoğurt, T. Alper
Eiles, Matthew T.
Gurarie, Victor
contents We present a unified description of attractive and repulsive polarons, formed in a one-dimensional Bose gas hosting an impurity particle, by obtaining all ground and excited state solutions to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Modeling the impurity with an attractive square-well potential, we characterize the excited-state energy branches as a function of interaction strength. As the impurity-bath coupling increases, the excited states change from distinct soliton configurations to hybridized soliton-polaron states, eventually crossing over from repulsive to attractive polarons at unitarity. We identify a universal regime near this crossover where the polaron properties are accurately characterized by the zero-energy scattering length.
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spellingShingle Unified theory of attractive and repulsive polarons in one-dimensional Bose gas
Yegovtsev, Nikolay
Yoğurt, T. Alper
Eiles, Matthew T.
Gurarie, Victor
Quantum Gases
We present a unified description of attractive and repulsive polarons, formed in a one-dimensional Bose gas hosting an impurity particle, by obtaining all ground and excited state solutions to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Modeling the impurity with an attractive square-well potential, we characterize the excited-state energy branches as a function of interaction strength. As the impurity-bath coupling increases, the excited states change from distinct soliton configurations to hybridized soliton-polaron states, eventually crossing over from repulsive to attractive polarons at unitarity. We identify a universal regime near this crossover where the polaron properties are accurately characterized by the zero-energy scattering length.
title Unified theory of attractive and repulsive polarons in one-dimensional Bose gas
topic Quantum Gases
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01046