Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Observation of Fermi Polarons in a Tunable Fermi Liquid of Ultracold Atoms
by Andre Schirotzek, ...., and Martin Zwierlein

We have observed Fermi polarons, dressed spin down impurities in a spin up Fermi sea of ultracold atoms. The polaron manifests itself as a narrow peak in the impurities' rf spectrum that emerges from a broad incoherent background. We determine the polaron energy and the quasiparticle residue for various interaction strengths around a Feshbach resonance. At a critical interaction, we observe the transition from polaronic to molecular binding. Here, the imbalanced Fermi liquid undergoes a phase transition into a Bose liquid coexisting with a Fermi sea.

**Groupmeeting by Dylan Jervis**

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