Quantum rotor in a two-dimensional mesoscopic Bose gas

TY - JOUR

T1 - Quantum rotor in a two-dimensional mesoscopic Bose gas

AU - Suchorowski, Michał

AU - Badamshina, Alina

AU - Lemeshko, Mikhail

AU - Tomza, Michał

AU - Volosniev, Artem G.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © M. Suchorowski et al.

PY - 2025/2

Y1 - 2025/2

N2 - We investigate a molecular quantum rotor in a two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate. The focus is on studying the angulon quasiparticle concept in the crossover from few- to many-body physics. To this end, we formulate the problem in real space and solve it with a mean-field approach in the frame co-rotating with the impurity. We show that the system starts to feature angulon characteristics when the size of the bosonic cloud is large enough to screen the rotor. More importantly, we demonstrate the departure from the angulon picture for large system sizes or large angular momenta where the properties of the system are determined by collective excitations of the Bose gas.

AB - We investigate a molecular quantum rotor in a two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate. The focus is on studying the angulon quasiparticle concept in the crossover from few- to many-body physics. To this end, we formulate the problem in real space and solve it with a mean-field approach in the frame co-rotating with the impurity. We show that the system starts to feature angulon characteristics when the size of the bosonic cloud is large enough to screen the rotor. More importantly, we demonstrate the departure from the angulon picture for large system sizes or large angular momenta where the properties of the system are determined by collective excitations of the Bose gas.

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U2 - 10.21468/SciPostPhys.18.2.059

DO - 10.21468/SciPostPhys.18.2.059

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85218803900

SN - 2542-4653

VL - 18

JO - SciPost Physics

JF - SciPost Physics

IS - 2

M1 - 059

ER -