Thermodynamic signatures of the polaron-molecule transition in a Fermi gas
arXiv:2011.08478 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.103.023312
Abstract
We consider the highly spin-imbalanced limit of a two-component Fermi gas, where there is a small density of impurities attractively interacting with a sea of fermions. In the single-impurity limit at zero temperature, there exists the so-called polaron-molecule transition, where the impurity sharply changes its character by binding a fermion at sufficiently strong attraction. Using a recently developed variational approach, we calculate the thermodynamic properties of the impurity, and we show that the transition becomes a smooth crossover at finite temperature due to the thermal occupation of excited states in the impurity spectral function. However, remnants of the single-impurity transition are apparent in the momentum-resolved spectral function, which can in principle be probed with Raman spectroscopy. We furthermore show that the Tan contact exhibits a characteristic non-monotonic dependence on temperature that provides a signature of the zero-temperature polaron-molecule transition. For a finite impurity density, we argue that descriptions purely based on the behavior of the Fermi polaron are invalid near the polaron-molecule transition, since correlations between impurities cannot be ignored. In particular, we show that the spin-imbalanced system undergoes phase separation at low temperatures due to the strong attraction between molecules induced by the Fermi sea. Thus, we find that the impurity spectrum and the induced impurity-impurity interactions are key to understanding the phase diagram of the spin-imbalanced Fermi gas.
arXiv comment15 pages, 9 figures
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