Stability and breakdown of Fermi polarons in a strongly interacting
Fermi-Bose mixture
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03625v2
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 07:17:22 GMT
- Title: Stability and breakdown of Fermi polarons in a strongly interacting
Fermi-Bose mixture
- Authors: Isabella Fritsche, Cosetta Baroni, Erich Dobler, Emil Kirilov, Bo
Huang, Rudolf Grimm, Georg M. Bruun, Pietro Massignan
- Abstract summary: We investigate an imbalanced mixture of bosonic $41$K impurities immersed in a Fermi sea of ultracold $6$Li atoms.
We find that the energy of the Fermi polarons formed in the thermal fraction of the impurity cloud remains rather insensitive to the impurity concentration.
A closer investigation of the behavior of the condensate by means of Rabi oscillation measurements support this observation.
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- Abstract: We investigate the properties of a strongly interacting imbalanced mixture of
bosonic $^{41}$K impurities immersed in a Fermi sea of ultracold $^6$Li atoms.
This enables us to explore the Fermi polaron scenario for large impurity
concentrations including the case where they form a Bose-Einstein condensate.
The system is characterized by means of radio-frequency injection spectroscopy
and interspecies interactions are widely tunable by means of a
well-characterized Feshbach resonance. We find that the energy of the Fermi
polarons formed in the thermal fraction of the impurity cloud remains rather
insensitive to the impurity concentration, even as we approach equal densities
for both species. The apparent insensitivity to high concentration is
consistent with a theoretical prediction, based on Landau's quasiparticle
theory, of a weak effective interaction between the polarons. The condensed
fraction of the bosonic $^{41}$K gas is much denser than its thermal component,
which leads to a break-down of the Fermi polaron description. Instead, we
observe a new branch in the radio-frequency spectrum with a small energy shift,
which is consistent with the presence of Bose polarons formed by $^{6}$Li
fermions inside the $^{41}$K condensate. A closer investigation of the behavior
of the condensate by means of Rabi oscillation measurements support this
observation, indicating that we have realized Fermi and Bose polarons, two
fundamentally different quasiparticles, in one cloud.
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