Quasiparticle energy in a strongly interacting homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensate

Using two-photon Bragg spectroscopy, we study the energy of particlelike excitations in a strongly interacting homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensate, and observe dramatic deviations from Bogoliubov theory. In particular, at large scattering length a the shift of the excitation resonance from the free...

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Հիմնական հեղինակներ: Lopes, R, Eigen, C, Barker, A, Viebahn, KGH, Robert-de-Saint-Vincent, M, Navon, N, Hadzibabic, Z, Smith, RP
Ձևաչափ: Journal article
Լեզու:English
Հրապարակվել է: American Physical Society 2017
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Ամփոփում:Using two-photon Bragg spectroscopy, we study the energy of particlelike excitations in a strongly interacting homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensate, and observe dramatic deviations from Bogoliubov theory. In particular, at large scattering length a the shift of the excitation resonance from the free-particle energy changes sign from positive to negative. For an excitation with wave number q, this sign change occurs at a≈4/(πq), in agreement with the Feynman energy relation and the static structure factor expressed in terms of the two-body contact. For a≳3/q we also see a breakdown of this theory, and better agreement with calculations based on the Wilson operator product expansion. Neither theory explains our observations across all interaction regimes, inviting further theoretical efforts.