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arXiv:2109.15028 · Physical Review A

Exact result for the polaron mass in a one-dimensional Bose gas

Zoran Ristivojević

Published Nov 22, 2021• 7 citations
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Abstract

We study the polaron quasiparticle in a one-dimensional Bose gas. In the integrable case described by the Yang-Gaudin model, we derive an exact result for the polaron mass in the thermodynamic limit. It is expressed in terms of the derivative with respect to the density of the ground-state energy per particle of the Bose gas without the polaron. This enables us to find high-order power series for the polaron mass in the regimes of weak and strong interaction.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.104.052218

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We study the polaron quasiparticle in a one-dimensional Bose gas. In the integrable case described by the Yang-Gaudin model, we derive an exact result for the polaron mass in the thermodynamic limit. It is expressed in terms of the derivative with respect to the density of the ground-state energy per particle of the Bose gas without the polaron. This enables us to find high-order power series for the polaron mass in the regimes of weak and strong interaction.
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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.
One-dimensional Bose gases present an interesting setting to study the physics of Bose polarons, as density fluctuations play an enhanced role due to reduced dimensionality. Theoretical descriptions of this system have predominantly relied on contact pseudopotentials to model the impurity-bath interaction, leading to unphysical results in the strongly coupled limit. In this work, we analytically solve the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, using a square-well potential instead of a zero-range potential, for the ground-state wave function of a static impurity. We compute perturbative corrections arising from infinitesimally slow impurity motion. The polaron energy and effective mass remain finite in the strongly coupled regime, in contrast to the divergent behavior obtained using a contact potential. In this limit, we characterize the polaron properties in terms of the dimensionless ratio w ̃ ≡ w / ξ between the interaction range w of the impurity-bath potential and the coherence length ξ of the Bose gas. The effective mass exhibits a 1 / w ̃ scaling. The energy of the attractive polaron scales as − 1 / w ̃ 3 , whereas the repulsive polaron features subleading corrections to the dark soliton energy at the order w ̃ 3 .
The main quasi-particle characteristics of the one-dimensional polaron are estimated within and beyond the most general Gaussian approximation at arbitrary electron-phonon coupling. We have derived explicitly the ground-state energy and the effective mass in the weak- and strong-coupling regimes. For arbitrary coupling, the Gaussian leading-order term of the polaron self energy improves the corresponding Feynman estimate and represents the lowest upper bound available. We have calculated the next non-Gaussian corrections. Taking into account systematically higher-order corrections does not perturb considerably the obtained results.
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The Gaudin integral equation for the ground state of a one-dimensional delta-function attractive spin-1/2 fermions is solved in the form of power series. The first few terms of the asymptotic expansions for both strong and weak coupling cases are calculated analytically. The physical quantities such as the ground state energy are expressed in terms of a single dimensionless parameter gamma =c/D, where c is the coupling constant and D is the number density. The results agree with those obtained from the perturbation calculations, which include the one in the classical electrostatics originally by Kirchhoff. In the strong coupling limit, the connection to the solutions of the Lieb-Liniger integral equation for the ground state of a one-dimensional delta-function repulsive bose gas is shown explicitly.