Polaron Interactions and Bipolarons in One-Dimensional Bose Gases in the Strong Coupling Regime
Will M, Astrakharchik GE, Fleischhauer M (2021)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2021
Journal
Book Volume: 127
Article Number: 103401
Journal Issue: 10
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.103401
Abstract
Bose polarons, quasiparticles composed of mobile impurities surrounded by cold Bose gas, can experience strong interactions mediated by the many-body environment and form bipolaron bound states. Here we present a detailed study of heavy polarons in a one-dimensional Bose gas by formulating a nonperturbative theory and complementing it with exact numerical simulations. We develop an analytic approach for weak boson-boson interactions and arbitrarily strong impurity-boson couplings. Our approach is based on a mean-field theory that accounts for deformations of the superfluid by the impurities and in this way minimizes quantum fluctuations. The mean-field equations are solved exactly in the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, leading to an analytic expression for the interaction potential of heavy polarons, which is found to be in excellent agreement with quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) results. In the strong coupling limit, the potential substantially deviates from the exponential form valid for weak coupling and has a linear shape at short distances. Taking into account the leading-order Born-Huang corrections, we calculate bipolaron binding energies for impurity-boson mass ratios as low as 3 and find excellent agreement with QMC results.
Involved external institutions
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Germany (DE)
Polytechnic University of Catalonia / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Spain (ES)
Germany (DE)
Polytechnic University of Catalonia / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Spain (ES)
How to cite
APA:
Will, M., Astrakharchik, G.E., & Fleischhauer, M. (2021). Polaron Interactions and Bipolarons in One-Dimensional Bose Gases in the Strong Coupling Regime. Physical Review Letters, 127(10). https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.103401
MLA:
Will, Martin, G. E. Astrakharchik, and Michael Fleischhauer. "Polaron Interactions and Bipolarons in One-Dimensional Bose Gases in the Strong Coupling Regime." Physical Review Letters 127.10 (2021).
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