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arXiv:2105.11072 · Physical Review Research

Complex Langevin study for polarons in a one-dimensional two-component Fermi gas with attractive contact interactions

Takahiro M. Doi, Hiroyuki Tajima, Shoichiro Tsutsui

Published Aug 20, 2021• 6 citations
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Abstract

We investigate a polaronic excitation in a one-dimensional spin-1/2 Fermi gas with contact attractive interactions, using the complex Langevin method, which is a promising approach to evade a possible sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo simulations. We found that the complex Langevin method works correctly in a wide range of temperature, interaction strength, and population imbalance. The Fermi polaron energy extracted from the two-point imaginary Green's function is not sensitive to the temperature and the impurity concentration in the parameter region we considered. Our results show a good agreement with the solution of the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz at zero temperature.

DOI
10.1103/physrevresearch.3.033180

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