Two polaron flavors of the Bose-Einstein condensate impurity
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Blinova, A. A.
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Los Alamos Natl Lab, Div Phys, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
Rice Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Houston, TX 77251 USALos Alamos Natl Lab, Div Phys, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
Blinova, A. A.
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Boshier, M. G.
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Los Alamos Natl Lab, Div Phys, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USALos Alamos Natl Lab, Div Phys, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
Boshier, M. G.
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Timmermans, Eddy
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Timmermans, Eddy
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We show that repulsive neutral-atom impurities in a dilute gas Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) can self-localize in bubble polaron states formally analogous to electron bubbles in helium. The BEC is then the first impurity host medium known to exhibit both Landau-Pekar polaron states akin to that of self-localized electrons in a dielectric lattice and self-localized bubble polaron states. We find that the neutral BEC-impurity system is fully characterized by only two dimensionless coupling constants and that a single BEC impurity can be steered adiabatically from the Landau-Pekar to the bubble region. The adiabatic change is that of a crossover, not a transition.