Physics – Condensed Matter – Quantum Gases
Scientific paper
2012-03-05
Physics
Condensed Matter
Quantum Gases
Scientific paper
The dynamics of a single impurity in an environment is a fundamental problem in many-body physics. In the solid state, a well-known case is an impurity coupled to a bosonic bath, for example lattice vibrations. Here the impurity together with its accompanying lattice distortion form a new entity, a polaron. This quasiparticle plays an important role in the spectral function of high-Tc superconductors as well as in colossal-magnetoresistance in manganites. For impurities in a fermionic bath, the attention so far has been mostly on heavy or immobile impurities which exhibit Anderson's orthogonality catastrophe and the Kondo effect. Only recently, mobile impurities have moved into the focus of research and they have been found to form new quasiparticles, so called Fermi polarons. The Fermi polaron problem constitutes the extreme, but conceptually simple, limit of two important quantum many-body problems: the BEC-BCS crossover with spin-imbalance for attractive interactions and Stoner's itinerant ferromagnetism for repulsive interactions. It has been proposed that this and other yet elusive exotic quantum phases might become realizable in Fermi gases confined to two dimensions. Their stability and observability is intimately related to the theoretically debated properties of the Fermi polaron in two dimensional Fermi gas. Here we create and investigate these Fermi polarons and measure their spectral function using momentum-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. For attractive interactions we find evidence for the disputed pairing transition between polarons and tightly bound dimers, which provides insight into the elementary pairing mechanism of imbalanced, strongly-coupled two-dimensional Fermi gases. Additionally, for repulsive interactions we study novel quasiparticles, repulsive polarons, whose lifetime determine the possibility of stabilizing repulsively interacting Fermi systems.
Feld Michael
Fröhlich Bernd
Köhl Michael
Koschorreck Marco
Pertot Daniel
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