Polarons in alkaline-earth-like atoms with multiple background Fermi surfaces

Abstract

We study the impurity problem in a Fermi gas of ¹⁷³Yb atoms near an orbital Feshbach resonance (OFR), where a single moving particle in the ³P₀ state interacts with two background Fermi seas of particles in different nuclear states of the ground ¹S₀ manifold. By employing wave function ansatz to molecule and polaron states, we investigate various properties of the molecule, the attractive polaron, and the repulsive polaron states. In comparison to the case where only one Fermi sea is populated, we find that the presence of an additional Fermi sea acts as an energy shift between the two channels of the OFR. In addition, quantum fluctuations near the Fermi level can also induce sizable effects to various properties of the attractive and repulsive polarons.

Keywords

Fermi gas / alkaline-earth atoms / orbital Feshbach resonance / polaron

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