Observation of Fermi Polarons in a Tunable Fermi Liquid of Ultracold Atoms
Ariel Sommer, Cheng-Hsun Wu, Martin W. Zwierlein +1 more
We have observed Fermi polarons, dressed spin-down impurities in a spin-up Fermi sea of ultracold atoms. The polaron manifests itself as a narrow peak in the impurities’ rf spectrum that emerges from a broad incoherent background. We determine the polaron energy and the quasiparticle residue for various interaction strengths around a Feshbach resonance. At a critical interaction, we observe the transition from polaronic to molecular binding. Here, the imbalanced Fermi liquid undergoes a phase transition into a Bose liquid, coexisting with a Fermi sea.
APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting Abstracts•Jun 1, 2009•0 citations