Bose polarons in the strongly interacting regime

ORAL

Abstract

Impurities immersed in and interacting with a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) are predicted to form quasiparticle excitations called Bose polarons. I will present experimental evidence of Bose polarons in cold atoms obtained using radio-frequency spectroscopy to measure the excitation spectrum of fermionic K-40 impurities interacting with a BEC of Rb-87 atoms. We use an interspecies Feshbach resonance to tune the interactions between the impurities and the bosons, and we take data in the strongly interacting regime.

Authors

  • Dhruv Kedar

    • University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Ming-Guang Hu

    • University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Michael Van de Graaff

    • University of Colorado, Boulder
  • John Corson

    • University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Eric Cornell

    • University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Deborah Jin

    • University of Colorado, Boulder