Spectra of heavy polarons and molecules coupled to a Fermi sea

ORAL

Abstract

We study the spectrum of an impurity coupled to a Fermi sea (e.g., minority atom in an ultracold gas, exciton in a solid) by attraction strong enough to form a molecule/trion. We introduce a diagrammatic scheme which allows treating a finite mass impurity while reproducing the Fermi edge singularity in the immobile limit. For large binding energies the spectrum is characterized by a semi-coherent repulsive polaron and an incoherent molecule, which is the lowest-energy feature in the single-particle spectrum. The previously predicted attractive polaron seems not to exist for strong binding.

*German Israeli Foundation (Grant No. I-1259-303.10)
German Excellence Initiative via Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM)
Israel Science Foundation (Grant No.\ 227/15)
US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (Grant No. 2014262)
Israel Ministry of Science and Technology (Contract No.\ 3-12419).

Presenters

  • Dimitri Pimenov

    • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Authors

  • Dimitri Pimenov

    • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Moshe Goldstein

    • Tel Aviv University