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Title
Feynman path-integral treatment of the Bose polaron beyond the Frohlich model
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Abstract
An impurity immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate is no longer accurately described by the Frohlich Hamiltonian as the coupling between the impurity and the boson bath gets stronger. We study the dominant effects of the two-phonon terms beyond the Frohlich model on the ground-state properties of the polaron using Feynman's variational path-integral approach. The previously reported discrepancy in the effective mass between the renormalization group approach and this theory is shown to be absent in the beyond-Frohlich model on the positive side of the Feshbach resonance. Self-trapping, characterized by a sharp and dramatic increase of the effective mass, is no longer observed for the repulsive polaron once the two-phonon interactions are included. For the attractive polaron we find a divergence of the ground-state energy and effective mass at weaker couplings than previously observed within the Frohlich model.
Language
English
Source (journal)
PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Publication
2019
DOI
10.1103/PHYSREVA.100.043605
Volume/pages
100 :4 (2019) , 13 p.
Article Reference
043605
ISI
000489245400007
Medium
E-only publicatie
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UAntwerpen
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Project info
Many-polaron effects in a Bose-Einstein condensate.
Superfluidity and superconductivity in multicomponent quantum condensates.
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Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Creation 08.11.2019
Last edited 02.10.2024
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