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arxiv: 2202.05366 · v1 · pith:627MCYLPnew · submitted 2022-02-10 · ❄️ cond-mat.quant-gas · cond-mat.supr-con· physics.atom-ph

Exact quasiparticle properties of a heavy polaron in BCS Fermi superfluids

classification ❄️ cond-mat.quant-gas cond-mat.supr-conphysics.atom-ph
keywords fermiexactheavyimpuritypolaronsuperfluidcontinuumpairing
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We present the Ramsey response and radio-frequency spectroscopy of a heavy impurity immersed in an interacting Fermi superfluid, using exact functional determinant approach. We describe the Fermi superfluid through the conventional Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory and investigate the role of the pairing gap on quasiparticle properties revealed by the two spectroscopies. The energy cost for pair breaking prevents Anderson\textquoteright s orthogonality catastrophe that occurs in a non-interacting Fermi gas and allows the existence of polaron quasiparticles in the exactly solvable heavy impurity limit. Hence, we rigorously confirm the remarkable features such as dark continuum, molecule-hole continuum and repulsive polaron. For a magnetic impurity scattering at finite temperature, we predict additional resonances related to the sub-gap Yu-Shiba-Rusinov bound state, whose positions can be used to measure the superfluid pairing gap. For a non-magnetic scattering at zero temperature, we surprisingly find undamped repulsive polarons. These exact results might be readily observed in quantum gas experiments with Bose-Fermi mixtures that have a large-mass ratio.

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