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Together with Giacomo Bighin and Tommaso Macrì, we studied the problem of a mobile impurity immersed in a bosonic mixture. We focused on the experimental relevant case of a 41K−87Rb mixture, prepared in its ground-state, with the impurity consisting of a few 41K atoms in the second-lowest hyperfine state. We provided a compressive picture of the impurity across the mixture phase diagram. In the droplet phase, under realistic experimental conditions, we found exotic bound-states where the impurity localized either at the center or at the droplet surface. Our findings provide new insights for the study and detection of Bose polarons in collisionally stable and long-lived Bose mixtures such as the 41K-87Rb one. G. Bighin et al. |
Considering the hurdles of experiments with more than one atomic species, the temptation arises of rephrasing Arthur L. Schawlow: "Double-species Bose-Einstein condensates are condensates with one species too many". We think otherwise. Quantum mixtures allow the investigation of a wealth of genuinely quantum phenomena: mixed phases of superfluids and Mott insulators, impurities and polarons, chemistry at zero-temperature.