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arXiv:2003.12371 · Annales Henri Poincaré

Microscopic Derivation of the Fröhlich Hamiltonian for the Bose Polaron in the Mean-Field Limit

Krzysztof Myśliwy, Robert Seiringer

Published Oct 13, 2020• 8 citations
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Abstract

Abstract We consider the quantum mechanical many-body problem of a single impurity particle immersed in a weakly interacting Bose gas. The impurity interacts with the bosons via a two-body potential. We study the Hamiltonian of this system in the mean-field limit and rigorously show that, at low energies, the problem is well described by the Fröhlich polaron model.

DOI
10.1007/s00023-020-00969-3

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Abstract The detailed mean-field (MF) treatment of the Bose polaron problem in two and three dimensions is presented. Particularly, assuming that impurity is immersed in the dilute Bose gas and interacts with bosons via the hard-sphere two-body potential, we calculate the low-momentum parameters of its spectrum, namely, the binding energy and the effective mass. The limits of applicability of the MF approach to a problem of mobile impurity in Bose–Einstein condensates are discussed by comparing our results to the Monte Carlo simulations data.
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