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_id: '1120'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'The existence of a self-localization transition in the polaron problem has
been under an active debate ever since Landau suggested it 83 years ago. Here
we reveal the self-localization transition for the rotational analogue of the
polaron -- the angulon quasiparticle. We show that, unlike for the polarons, self-localization
of angulons occurs at finite impurity-bath coupling already at the mean-field
level. The transition is accompanied by the spherical-symmetry breaking of the
angulon ground state and a discontinuity in the first derivative of the ground-state
energy. Moreover, the type of the symmetry breaking is dictated by the symmetry
of the microscopic impurity-bath interaction, which leads to a number of distinct
self-localized states. The predicted effects can potentially be addressed in experiments
on cold molecules trapped in superfluid helium droplets and ultracold quantum
gases, as well as on electronic excitations in solids and Bose-Einstein condensates. '
article_number: '033608'
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Xiang
full_name: Li, Xiang
id: 4B7E523C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Li
- first_name: Robert
full_name: Seiringer, Robert
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last_name: Seiringer
orcid: 0000-0002-6781-0521
- first_name: Mikhail
full_name: Lemeshko, Mikhail
id: 37CB05FA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Lemeshko
orcid: 0000-0002-6990-7802
citation:
ama: Li X, Seiringer R, Lemeshko M. Angular self-localization of impurities rotating
in a bosonic bath. Physical Review A. 2017;95(3). doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.95.033608
apa: Li, X., Seiringer, R., & Lemeshko, M. (2017). Angular self-localization
of impurities rotating in a bosonic bath. Physical Review A. American Physical
Society. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.033608
chicago: Li, Xiang, Robert Seiringer, and Mikhail Lemeshko. “Angular Self-Localization
of Impurities Rotating in a Bosonic Bath.” Physical Review A. American
Physical Society, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.033608.
ieee: X. Li, R. Seiringer, and M. Lemeshko, “Angular self-localization of impurities
rotating in a bosonic bath,” Physical Review A, vol. 95, no. 3. American
Physical Society, 2017.
ista: Li X, Seiringer R, Lemeshko M. 2017. Angular self-localization of impurities
rotating in a bosonic bath. Physical Review A. 95(3), 033608.
mla: Li, Xiang, et al. “Angular Self-Localization of Impurities Rotating in a Bosonic
Bath.” Physical Review A, vol. 95, no. 3, 033608, American Physical Society,
2017, doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.95.033608.
short: X. Li, R. Seiringer, M. Lemeshko, Physical Review A 95 (2017).
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:50:15Z
date_published: 2017-03-06T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-09-20T11:30:58Z
day: '06'
department:
- _id: MiLe
- _id: RoSe
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.95.033608
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
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intvolume: ' 95'
isi: 1
issue: '3'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
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url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.04908
month: '03'
oa: 1
oa_version: Published Version
project:
- _id: 25C6DC12-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425
call_identifier: H2020
grant_number: '694227'
name: Analysis of quantum many-body systems
- _id: 25C878CE-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425
call_identifier: FWF
grant_number: P27533_N27
name: Structure of the Excitation Spectrum for Many-Body Quantum Systems
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call_identifier: FWF
grant_number: P29902
name: Quantum rotations in the presence of a many-body environment
publication: Physical Review A
publication_identifier:
issn:
- '24699926'
publication_status: published
publisher: American Physical Society
publist_id: '6242'
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title: Angular self-localization of impurities rotating in a bosonic bath
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