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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 83, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.051603
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- EPSRC [EP/H00369X/1]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/H00369X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/H00369X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We address the problem of a single spin-down impurity atom interacting attractively with a spin-up Fermi gas in two dimensions (2D). We consider the case where the mass of the impurity is greater than or equal to the mass of a spin-up fermion. Using a variational approach, we resolve the questions raised by previous studies and show that there is, in fact, a transition between polaron and molecule (dimer) ground states in 2D. For the molecule state, we use a variational wave function with a single particle-hole excitation on the Fermi sea and we find that its energy matches that of the exact solution in the limit of infinite impurity mass. Thus, we expect the variational approach to provide a reliable tool for investigating 2D systems.
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