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 QI/AMO Seminar: "Normal state of highly polarized Fermi gases: full many-body treatment"
  
  Speaker  

Professor Roland Combescot

University of Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France

    
 Date Nov 12, 2009
    
 Time 12:00 pm  
    
 Location 280 Materials Research Lab., 104 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana
    
 Sponsor Department of Physics
    
 Contact Linda Thorman
    
 E-Mail 
    
 Phone 217-333-1590
    
 Event type QI/AMO Seminar
    
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We present an analytical treatment of a single down-atom within a Fermi sea of up-atoms. Our treatment amounts essentially to an exact solution of this problem.This is done both when the attractive interactionis strong enough to produce a bound state, dressed by the Fermi sea, or when it is slightly weaker,leading to a dressed down-atom (a 'polaron'). Whenever our results can be compared toother methods, analytical or numerical (Monte-Carlo), the agreement is excellent.The success of our approach is due to its natural incorporation of a large number of contributions which displaya nearly perfect destructive interference.
 
 
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