Landau Effective Interaction between Quasiparticles in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
Landau’s description of the excitations in a macroscopic system in terms of quasiparticles stands out as one of the highlights in quantum physics. It provides an accurate description of otherwise prohibitively complex many-body systems and has led to the development of several key technologies. In t...
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| description | Landau’s description of the excitations in a macroscopic system in terms of quasiparticles stands out as one of the highlights in quantum physics. It provides an accurate description of otherwise prohibitively complex many-body systems and has led to the development of several key technologies. In this paper, we investigate theoretically the Landau effective interaction between quasiparticles, so-called Bose polarons, formed by impurity particles immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). In the limit of weak interactions between the impurities and the BEC, we derive rigorous results for the effective interaction. They show that it can be strong even for a weak impurity-boson interaction, if the transferred momentum-energy between the quasiparticles is resonant with a sound mode in the BEC. We then develop a diagrammatic scheme to calculate the effective interaction for arbitrary coupling strengths, which recovers the correct weak-coupling results. Using this scheme, we show that the Landau effective interaction, in general, is significantly stronger than that between quasiparticles in a Fermi gas, mainly because a BEC is more compressible than a Fermi gas. The interaction is particularly large near the unitarity limit of the impurity-boson scattering or when the quasiparticle momentum is close to the threshold for momentum relaxation in the BEC. Finally, we show how the Landau effective interaction leads to a sizable shift of the quasiparticle energy with an increasing impurity concentration, which should be detectable with present-day experimental techniques. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-94aa197d92e242398e5349c09783f1dc2022-12-21T20:46:52ZengAmerican Physical SocietyPhysical Review X2160-33082018-08-018303104210.1103/PhysRevX.8.031042Landau Effective Interaction between Quasiparticles in a Bose-Einstein CondensateA. Camacho-GuardianGeorg M. BruunLandau’s description of the excitations in a macroscopic system in terms of quasiparticles stands out as one of the highlights in quantum physics. It provides an accurate description of otherwise prohibitively complex many-body systems and has led to the development of several key technologies. In this paper, we investigate theoretically the Landau effective interaction between quasiparticles, so-called Bose polarons, formed by impurity particles immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). In the limit of weak interactions between the impurities and the BEC, we derive rigorous results for the effective interaction. They show that it can be strong even for a weak impurity-boson interaction, if the transferred momentum-energy between the quasiparticles is resonant with a sound mode in the BEC. We then develop a diagrammatic scheme to calculate the effective interaction for arbitrary coupling strengths, which recovers the correct weak-coupling results. Using this scheme, we show that the Landau effective interaction, in general, is significantly stronger than that between quasiparticles in a Fermi gas, mainly because a BEC is more compressible than a Fermi gas. The interaction is particularly large near the unitarity limit of the impurity-boson scattering or when the quasiparticle momentum is close to the threshold for momentum relaxation in the BEC. Finally, we show how the Landau effective interaction leads to a sizable shift of the quasiparticle energy with an increasing impurity concentration, which should be detectable with present-day experimental techniques.http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.8.031042 |
| spellingShingle | A. Camacho-Guardian Georg M. Bruun Landau Effective Interaction between Quasiparticles in a Bose-Einstein Condensate Physical Review X |
| title | Landau Effective Interaction between Quasiparticles in a Bose-Einstein Condensate |
| title_full | Landau Effective Interaction between Quasiparticles in a Bose-Einstein Condensate |
| title_fullStr | Landau Effective Interaction between Quasiparticles in a Bose-Einstein Condensate |
| title_full_unstemmed | Landau Effective Interaction between Quasiparticles in a Bose-Einstein Condensate |
| title_short | Landau Effective Interaction between Quasiparticles in a Bose-Einstein Condensate |
| title_sort | landau effective interaction between quasiparticles in a bose einstein condensate |
| url | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.8.031042 |
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