Please join us for an informal seminar sponsored by the Atomic and
Molecular Physics Division, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
(Complete schedule at
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/amp/events.html)
2:00 PM Monday April 4, 2011
PRATT Conference Room
60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Highly polarized Fermi gases in different dimensions
Dr. Meera Parish
Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University
In this talk, I will consider an atomic Fermi gas in the limit of
extreme spin imbalance, where one has a single spin-down impurity atom
interacting attractively with a spin-up atomic Fermi gas. Such a
scenario is an example of the canonical "polaron" problem, the
solution of which is used to construct the low-energy behavior of
many-body systems. For sufficiently strong attraction, the impurity
atom has the possibility of binding one or more spin-up fermions and
thus changing its statistics. I will explore the nature of these
binding transitions and how they are affected by the system
dimensionality.
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