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Physical review. B./Physical review. B

Long-range interacting Fermi polaron

Krzysztof Myśliwy, Krzysztof Jachymski

Published Jun 25, 2024• 5 citations
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Abstract

We construct the simplest density functional for the problem of a single impurity interacting with a Fermi gas via a long-ranged potential using the Thomas-Fermi approach. We find that the Fermi polaron is fully bosonized in two dimensions, as the model results in the Landau-Pekar functional known from the Bose polaron problem, and in its many-image extension in other dimensions. We discuss applications of our theory for the two-dimensional exciton-polaron and the ionic polaron problem and compute the effective mass for these cases, finding a self-trapping transition with order dependent on the dimensionality.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.109.214208

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Quantum Monte Carlo techniques are employed to study the properties of polarons in an ultracold Fermi gas, at T=0T=0T=0, and in the unitary regime using both a zero-range model and a square-well potential. For a fixed density, the potential range is varied and results are extrapolated and compared against a zero-range model. A discussion regarding the choice of an interacting potential with a finite range is presented. We compute the polaron effective mass, the polaron binding energy, and the effective coupling between them. The latter is obtained using the Landau-Pomeranchuk's weakly interacting quasiparticle model. The contact parameter is estimated by fitting the pair distribution function of atoms in different spin states.
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