Coupled dipole oscillations of a mass-imbalanced Bose-Fermi superfluid mixture

摘要

Recent experimental realizations of superfluid mixtures of Bose and Fermi quantum gases provide a unique platform for exploring diverse superfluid phenomena. We study dipole oscillations of a double superfluid in a cigar-shaped optical dipole trap, consisting of K-41 and Li-6 atoms with a large mass imbalance, where the oscillations of the bosonic and fermionic components are coupled via the Bose-Fermi interaction. In our high-precision measurements, the frequencies of both components are observed to be shifted from the single-species ones, and exhibit unusual features. The frequency shifts of the K-41 component are upward (downward) in the radial (axial) direction, whereas the Li-6 component has downshifted frequencies in both directions. Most strikingly, as the interaction strength is varied, the frequency shifts display a resonantlike behavior in both directions, for both species, and around a similar location at the BCS side of the fermionic superfluid. These rich phenomena challenge the theoretical understanding of superfluids.