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Driven dynamics of an attractive Bose polaron

Saptarshi Majumdar and Aleksandra Petković

Phys. Rev. A - Accepted 6 October, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/t36j-gd59

Abstract

We study the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of an impurity driven by a constant external force through a system of homogeneous, weakly-interacting bosons in one spatial dimension. The impurity-boson interaction is assumed to be attractive. We show that the impurity exhibits drifted Bloch oscillations over a wide range of forces in the absence of a lattice. We explain the mechanism underlying the Bloch oscillations, which occur via the formation of a depletion region attached to the density peak centered at the impurity. We analyze the behavior of the drift velocity, the Bloch amplitude, and the time period of oscillations in a wide range of forces and other system parameters. In contrast to the case of repulsive impurity-boson interaction, the drift velocity exhibits a sub-linear dependence on a weak applied force, Vd∼Fα with a positive exponent α smaller than unity. The drift velocity monotonically increases with force, though the scaling behavior varies considerably across different regimes of F. Moreover, the amplitude of the velocity oscillations displays rich behavior: it first undergoes a decay with force, reaches a minimum, and then presents a revival, increasing with force. The velocity oscillations of an impurity exceeding the critical mass differ significantly in shape and drift velocity behavior as a function of force.

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