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Bose Polarons in a Homogenous Bose-Einstein Condensate

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Abstract

We study Bose polarons in a homogeneous BEC of 39K atoms, produced in an optical-box trap. The impurities are formed using rf-injection between spin states, and the interstate interactions are tuned using magnetic Feshbach resonances. Leveraging the suppression of inhomogeneous broadening in a box-trapped gas, we use a combination of injection spectroscopy and Ramsey-like many-body interferometry to access the injection spectrum (frequency domain) and the impurity-coherence function (time domain) for both attractive and repulsive interactions. On the repulsive side of the resonance, we resolve two energy branches, corresponding to a repulsive polaron and a many-body state connected to the Feshbach dimer, whose energy shifts with density. Finally, we obtain first measurements of the Bose-polaron quasiparticle residue using the many-body interferometry.

Presenters

  • Jiri Etrych

    University of Cambridge

Authors

  • Jiri Etrych

    University of Cambridge

  • Alec Cao

    JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST, JILA

  • Gevorg Martirosyan

    University of Cambridge

  • Christopher Ho

    University of Cambridge

  • Zoran Hadzibabic

    Univ of Cambridge, University of Cambridge

  • Chris Eigen

    University of Cambridge