Scattering of a composite quasiparticle by an impurity on a lattice
Fumika Suzuki, Marina Litinskaya, William George Unruh
We study scattering of a composite quasiparticle, which possesses a degree of freedom corresponding to relative separation between two bound excitations, by a $\ensuremath{\delta}$-like impurity potential on a one-dimensional discrete lattice. First, we show that, due to specific properties of their dispersion, lattice excitations bind to impurities with both negative and positive potentials. We demonstrate that the finite size of the composite excitation leads to formation of multiple excitation-impurity bound states. The number and the degree of localization of these bound states depend on the signs and relative magnitudes of the impurity potential and the binding strength of two quasiparticles. We also report the existence of excitation-impurity bound states whose energies are located in the continuum band. Secondly, we study a change in the entanglement between the center of mass and relative coordinate degrees of freedom of a biexciton wave packet during single impurity scattering and decoherence caused by it. For a composite quasiparticle on a lattice, the entanglement between its relative and center of mass coordinate degrees of freedom arises naturally due to inseparability of the two-particle Hamiltonian. One of the main focuses of our study is to investigate how this inseparability affects the creation of the biexciton-impurity bound states and the entanglement dynamics.
arXiv:1701.04899•Physical review. B./Physical review. B•Aug 28, 2017•3 citations