Mass-gap functional determinant approach for mobile Fermi polarons

Abstract:

We extend the functional determinant approach (FDA), previously restricted to static impurities, to the case of finite-mass impurities by using the mass-gap description of Fermi polarons [Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 193401 (2025)]. The quadratic structure of the mass-gap model enables the exact evaluation of many-body spectra and Ramsey dynamics for mobile impurities. We show that this mass-gap FDA smoothly interpolates between the Fermi-edge singularity for infinitely heavy impurities and the emergence of quasiparticle weight for finite impurity mass. Our results demonstrate that the mass-gap FDA provides a transparent and computationally efficient framework to describe the quantum dynamics of mobile impurities.

E. R. Rodríguez, E. Dizer, X. Chen, R. Schmidt, „Mass-gap functional determinant approach
for mobile Fermi polarons“, 31. Aug. 2026, arXiv:2608.30539 (2026).

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30539

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