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Quasiparticle Energy in a Strongly Interacting Homogeneous Bose-Einstein Condensate

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Lopes, R 
Barker, A 
Viebahn, KGH 
Robert-de-Saint-Vincent, M 

Abstract

Using two-photon Bragg spectroscopy, we study the energy of particle-like excitations in a strongly interacting homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensate, and observe dramatic deviations from Bogoliubov theory. In particular, at large scattering length a the shift of the excitation resonance from the free-particle energy changes sign from positive to negative. For an excitation with wavenumber q, this sign change occurs at a≈4/(πq), in agreement with the Feynman energy relation and the static structure factor expressed in terms of the two-body contact. For a≳3/q we also see a breakdown of this theory, and better agreement with calculations based on the Wilson operator product expansion. Neither theory explains our observations across all interaction regimes, inviting further theoretical efforts.

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cond-mat.quant-gas, cond-mat.quant-gas, cond-mat.stat-mech, physics.atom-ph, quant-ph

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Physical Review Letters

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0031-9007
1079-7114

Volume Title

118

Publisher

American Physical Society
Sponsorship
European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) Marie Sk?odowska-Curie actions (704832)
The Royal Society (uf110236)
Royal Society (RG120365)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/N011759/1)
European Research Council (682285)
This work was supported by the Royal Society, EPSRC (Grant No. EP/N011759/1), ERC (QBox), AFOSR, and ARO. R. L. acknowledges support from the E.U. Marie-Curie program (Grant No. MSCA-IF-2015 704832) and Churchill College, Cambridge. N. N. acknowledges support from Trinity College, Cambridge.
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