arXiv:cond-mat/0304128 · Physical review. B, Condensed matter
Effects of fermion-boson interaction in neutral atomic systems
Nobuhiko Yokoshi, Susumu Kurihara
Abstract
We investigate the collective excitations of ${}^{3}\mathrm{He}{--}^{4}\mathrm{He}$ mixture films at zero temperature within the random phase approximation and linear response theory. In a low concentration regime of ${}^{3}\mathrm{He},$ a level repulsion between zero sound and third sound modes is derived, which opens the possibility to observe quantum mechanical coherence between a ${}^{3}\mathrm{He}$ particle-hole pair and the condensate of ${}^{4}\mathrm{He}.$ We also investigate the ${}^{3}\mathrm{He}{--}^{4}\mathrm{He}$ vertex corrections in the ladder approximation, and show that the third branch, the combined mode of fermionic particle-hole pair and the third sound quanta, provides a unique correction to the Landau f function. Some implications for a fermion-boson mixture of alkali atoms in a potential trap are discussed.