Charged polarons and molecules in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
arXiv:2012.11436 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.243001
Abstract
We investigate the properties a mobile ion immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) using different theoretical approaches. A coherent state variational ansatz predicts that the ion spectral function exhibits several branches in addition to polaronic quasiparticle states, and we employ a diagrammatic analysis of the ion-atom scattering in the BEC to identify them as arising from the binding of an increasing number of bosons to the ion. We develop a simplified model describing the formation of these molecular ions showing that their spectral weight scales with the number of bound atoms. The number of atoms in the dressing cloud around the ion are calculated from thermodynamic arguments, and we finally show that the dynamics ensuing the injection of an ion into the BEC exhibits various regimes governed by coherent quasiparticle propagation and decay.
Manuscript: 4 pages, 3 figures. Supplemental: 3 pages, 2 figures
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