Postdocs Enderalp Yakaboylu and Bikashkali Midya (currently at U Penn) developed a theory of the “rotating polaron” (or the “moving angulon”) – an impurity possessing both translational and rotational degrees of freedom. The work was done in collaboration with the mathematical physicists Andreas Deuchert and Nikolai Leopold (group of Prof. Seiringer)
E. Yakaboylu, B. Midya, A. Deuchert, N. Leopold, M. Lemeshko
Theory of the Rotating Polaron: Spectrum and Self-Localization
Phys. Rev. B 98, 224506 (2018), arXiv:1809.01204
The plot of the rotating polaron spectral function has been picked for the Phys. Rev. B Kaleidoscope collection
