Repulsive fermi and Bose polarons in quantum gases

Polaron quasiparticles are formed when a mobile impurity is coupled to the elementary excitations of a many-particle background. In the field of ultracold atoms, the study of the associated impurity problem has attracted a growing interest over the last fifteen years. Polaron quasiparticle propertie...

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Autores: Scazza, F, Zaccanti, Matteo, Massignan, Pietro Alberto|||0000-0003-1545-792X, Parish, Meera M, Levinsen, Jesper
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/388483
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/388483
https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atoms10020055
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Quantum theory.
Fermi polarons
Bose polarons
Repulsive interactions
Metastable quasiparticles
Quasiparticle lifetime
Mediated interactions
Repulsive Fermi gas
Ultracold atomic mixtures
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Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Física::Física de fluids::Física de gasos
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Sumario:Polaron quasiparticles are formed when a mobile impurity is coupled to the elementary excitations of a many-particle background. In the field of ultracold atoms, the study of the associated impurity problem has attracted a growing interest over the last fifteen years. Polaron quasiparticle properties are essential to our understanding of a variety of paradigmatic quantum many-body systems realized in ultracold atomic gases and in the solid state, from imbalanced Bose–Fermi and Fermi–Fermi mixtures to fermionic Hubbard models. In this topical review, we focus on the so-called repulsive polaron branch, which emerges as an excited many-body state in systems with underlying attractive interactions such as ultracold atomic mixtures, and is characterized by an effective repulsion between the impurity and the surrounding medium. We give a brief account of the current theoretical and experimental understanding of repulsive polaron properties, for impurities embedded in both fermionic and bosonic media, and we highlight open issues deserving future investigations.