Phase diagram and dynamics of magnetic Bose polarons

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Abstract

We investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics of magnetic polarons by considering an impurity atom dressed by spin-wave excitations in a one-dimensional spinor Bose gas. The phase diagram which contains self-bound and repulsive magnetic polarons as well as phase-separated regime is obtained as a function of Rabi-coupling and spin-spin interactions. A waveform of the magnetic polaron is extracted through an effective model. The residue is found to drop for strong impurity-spin interactions towards the polaron catastrophe. We infer the dynamical persistence of the respective repulsive and attractive branches associated with the generation of strongly correlated spin-waves. Strikingly, a dynamical decay at early stages of the dynamics is observed for strong impurity-medium interactions followed by a diffusive polaron behavior. The impurity can be utilized to probe and manipulate spin-demixing by suppressing ferromagnetic spin-spin correlations. Controllable spin-demixing and correlated magnetic polarons are experimentally realizable with current technologies.

*We acknowledge support from the NSF through a grant for ITAMP at Harvard University.

Presenters

  • Simeon I Mistakidis

    • Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
    • ITAMP, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University
    • Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
    • University of Hamburg

Authors

  • Simeon I Mistakidis

    • Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
    • ITAMP, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University
    • Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
    • University of Hamburg
  • Georgios Koutentakis

    • University of Hamburg
  • Fabian Grusdt

    • LMU Munich
    • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU-Munich)
    • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU-Mun
  • Peter Schmelcher

    • University of Hamburg
  • Hossein R Sadeghpour

    • Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics