Emergence of Crystalline Few-body Correlations in Mass-imbalanced Fermi Polarons
arXiv:2202.03623 · doi:10.1016/j.xcrp.2022.100993
Abstract
Polarons can serve as an ideal platform to identify few-body correlations in tackling complex many-body problems. In this work, we reveal various crystalline few-body correlations smoothly emergent from the mass-imbalanced Fermi polarons in two dimensions. A unified variational approach up to three particle-hole excitations allows us to extract the dominant dimer, trimer or tetramer correlation in a single framework. When the fermion-impurity mass ratio is beyond certain critical value, the Fermi polaron is found to undergo a smooth crossover, instead of a sharp transition, from the polaronic to trimer and tetramer regimes as increasing the fermion-impurity attraction. The emergent trimer and tetramer correlations result in the momentum-space crystallization of particle-hole excitations featuring a stable diagonal or triangular structure, as can be directly probed through the density-density correlation of majority fermions. Our results shed light on the intriguing quantum phases in the mass-imbalanced Fermi-Fermi mixtures beyond the pairing superfluid paradigm.
11+5 pages, 5+4 figures; to appear in Cell Reports Physical Science
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