Visualizing the Efimov Correlation in Bose Polarons

Mingyuan Sun, Hui Zhai, and Xiaoling Cui
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 013401 – Published 6 July 2017

Abstract

The Bose polaron is a quasiparticle of an impurity dressed by surrounding bosons. In few-body physics, it is known that two identical bosons and a third distinguishable particle can form a sequence of Efimov bound states in the vicinity of interspecies scattering resonance. On the other hand, in the Bose polaron system with an impurity atom embedded in many bosons, no signature of Efimov physics has been reported in the existing spectroscopy measurements to date. In this Letter, we propose that a large mass imbalance between a light impurity and heavy bosons can help produce visible signatures of Efimov physics in such a spectroscopy measurement. Using the diagrammatic approach in the virial expansion to include three-body effects from pair-wise interactions, we determine the impurity self-energy and its spectral function. Taking the Li6Cs133 system as a concrete example, we find two visible Efimov branches in the polaron spectrum, as well as their hybridizations with the attractive polaron branch. We also discuss the general scenarios for observing the signature of Efimov physics in polaron systems. This work paves the way for experimentally exploring intriguing few-body correlations in a many-body system in the near future.

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  • Received 27 February 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.013401

© 2017 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

  1. Research Areas
  1. Physical Systems
Atomic, Molecular & Optical

Authors & Affiliations

Mingyuan Sun1, Hui Zhai1,2, and Xiaoling Cui3,*

  • 1Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • 2Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100084, China
  • 3Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

  • *xlcui@iphy.ac.cn

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Vol. 119, Iss. 1 — 7 July 2017

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