Energy, decay rate, and effective masses for a moving polaron in a Fermi sea: Explicit results in the weakly attractive limit

Abstract

We study the properties of an impurity of mass $M$ moving through a spatially homogeneous three-dimensional fully polarized Fermi gas of particles of mass $m$. In the weakly attractive limit, where the effective coupling constant $g\to 0^{-}$ and perturbation theory can be used, both for a broad and a narrow Feshbach resonance, we obtain an explicit analytical expression for the complex energy $ΔE(\KK)$ of the moving impurity up to order two included in $g$. This also gives access to its longitudinal and transverse effective masses $m_\parallel^*(\KK)$, $m_\perp^*(\KK)$, as functions of the impurity wave vector $\KK$. Depending on the modulus of $\KK$ and on the impurity-to-fermion mass ratio $M/m$ we identify four regions separated by singularities in derivatives with respect to $\KK$ of the second-order term of $ΔE(\KK)$, and we discuss the physical origin of these regions. Remarkably, the second-order term of $m_\parallel^*(\KK)$ presents points of non-differentiability, replaced by a logarithmic divergence for $M=m$, when $\KK$ is on the Fermi surface of the fermions. We also discuss the third-order contribution and relevance for cold atom experiments.

6 pages, 4 figures; final version, including a finite temperature calculation

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