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Few Versus Many-Body Physics of an Impurity Immersed in a Superfluid of Spin 1/2 Attractive Fermions
M Pierce1, X Leyronas2, F Chevy1
1Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS-Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Collège de France, 75005 Paris France.
Abstract:
In this Letter we investigate the properties of an impurity immersed in a superfluid of strongly correlated spin 1/2 fermions and we calculate the beyond-mean-field corrections to the energy of a weakly interacting impurity. We show that these corrections are divergent and have to be regularized by properly accounting for three-body physics in the problem and that our approach naturally provides a unifying framework for Bose and Fermi polaron physics.
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