BEC immersed in a Fermi sea: Theory of static and dynamic behavior across phase separation

Abstract

We theoretically study the static and dynamic behavior of a BEC immersed in a large Fermi sea of ultracold atoms under conditions of tunable interspecies interaction. The degenerate Bose-Fermi mixture is kept in an elongated trap, typical for a single-beam optical dipole trap. We focus on the case of repulsive Bose-Fermi interaction and develop mean-field models to simulate the system over a wide range of repulsion strength. We further get analytical solutions in the regimes of phase separation and weak interaction. We obtain static density profiles and the frequency of the radial breathing mode, which is an elementary dynamic phenomenon of the mixture. Our results unveil the structure of the Bose-Fermi interface and describe the origin of the frequency shift of the breathing mode when the components become phase-separated at strong repulsion. We show that the mediated interaction between bosons induced by the Fermi sea can be understood as an adiabatic second-order mean-field effect, which is valid also beyond the weak-interaction regime for relevant experimental conditions. These results are consistent with our recent observations in a mixture of ${}^{41}$K and ${}^6$Li.

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