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 $^{\mathrm{40}}$K impurities interacting with a BEC of $^{\mathrm{87}}$Rb 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.

*This work is supported by NSF, NASA and NIST

Authors

  • Ming-Guang Hu

    • JILA, NIST and CU-Boulder
  • Michael van de Graaff

    • JILA, NIST and CU-Boulder
  • Dhruv Kedar

    • JILA, NIST and CU-Boulder
  • Eric Cornell

    • JILA, NIST and CU-Boulder
  • Deborah Jin

    • JILA, NIST and CU-Boulder