Research
Realization of Repulsive Polarons in the Strongly Correlated Regime
feeds.aps.org · By R. Henke, J. Levinsen, M. M. Parish, J. Boronat, G. E. Astrakharchik, H. Moritz & C. R. Cabrera ·
The Brief
- Researchers report a stable repulsive Bose polaron realised in a two-dimensional quantum gas.
- The impurities and their surrounding quantum medium are encoded in different vibrational states.
- The work is described as realising repulsive polarons in the strongly correlated regime, published in Physical Review (APS, DOI 10.1103/m5qj-j8bm).
Why it matters
It offers an experimental platform in ultracold atomic gases for studying strongly interacting impurities in a quantum medium, a regime relevant to condensed-matter and few-body physics.
Who’s affected
- condensed-matter and atomic physicists
- researchers working on ultracold quantum gases
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Author(s): R. Henke, J. Levinsen, M. M. Parish, J. Boronat, G. E. Astrakharchik, H. Moritz, and C. R. Cabrera A stable repulsive Bose polaron is realized in a two-dimensional quantum gas by encoding impurities and their surrounding quantum medium in different vibrational states…