Cold chemistry: a few-body perspective on impurity physics of a single ion in an ultracold bath

Abstract

Impurity physics is a traditional topic in condensed matter physics that nowadays is being explored in the field of ultracold gases. Among the different classes of impurities, we focus on charged impurities in an ultracold bath. When a single ion is brought in contact with an ultracold gas it is subjected to different reactive processes that can be understood from a cold chemistry approach. In this work, we present an outlook of approaches for the dynamics of a single ion in a bath of ultracold atoms or molecules, complementing the usual many-body approaches characteristic of impurity physics within condensed matter physics. In particular, we focus on the evolution of a charged impurity in different baths, including external time-dependent trapping potentials and we explore the effect of the external laser sources present in ion-neutral hybrid traps into the lifetime of an impurity.

arXiv comment8 pages, 6 figures

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