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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
卷 90, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.90.063610
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资金
- Excellence Initiative [DFG/GSC 266]
- Marion Koser Stiftung
- NSF [DMR-1308435]
- Harvard-MIT CUA
- AFOSR New Quantum Phases of Matter MURI
- ARO-MURI on Atomtronics
- ARO MURI Quism program
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1125846] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
We consider a single-impurity atom confined to an optical lattice and immersed in a homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). Interaction of the impurity with the phonon modes of the BEC leads to the formation of a stable quasiparticle, the polaron. We use a variational mean-field approach to study dispersion renormalization and derive equations describing nonequilibrium dynamics of polarons by projecting equations of motion into mean-field-type wave functions. As a concrete example, we apply our method to study dynamics of impurity atoms in response to a suddenly applied force and explore the interplay of coherent Bloch oscillations and incoherent drift. We obtain a nonlinear dependence of the drift velocity on the applied force, including a sub-Ohmic dependence for small forces for dimensionality d > 1 of the BEC. For the case of heavy impurity atoms, we derive a closed analytical expression for the drift velocity. Our results show considerable differences with the commonly used phenomenological Esaki-Tsu model.
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