Abstract
We explore the impact and scaling of effective interactions between two and three impurity atoms, induced by a bosonic medium, on their density distributions. To facilitate the detection of mediated interactions, we propose a setup where impurities are trapped in a tilted double-well potential, while the medium is confined to a ring. The tilt of the potential breaks the spatial inversion symmetry allowing us to exploit the population of the energetically elevated well as a probe of induced interactions. For two impurities, the interaction with the medium reduces the impurity population at the energetically elevated well, which we interpret as evidence of induced impurity-impurity attraction. Furthermore, the impact of an induced three-body interaction is unveiled by comparing the predictions of an effective three-body model with many-body simulations. We extend our study for induced interactions to a three-component mixture containing distinguishable impurities. Our results suggest pathways to detect and tune induced two- and three-body interactions.
Recommended Citation
F. Theel et al., "Effective Two- and Three-Body Interactions between Dressed Impurities in a Tilted Double-Well Potential," Physical Review Research, vol. 7, no. 4, article no. 043059, American Physical Society, Oct 2025.
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Department(s)
Physics
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
2643-1564
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Article - Journal
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Final Version
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English
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Publication Date
01 Oct 2025
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Missouri University of Science and Technology, Grant DNRF152