Polaron-to-polaron transitions in the radio-frequency spectrum of a quasi-two-dimensional Fermi gas

Phys Rev Lett. 2012 Jun 8;108(23):235302. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.235302. Epub 2012 Jun 8.

Abstract

We measure radio-frequency spectra for a two-component mixture of a 6Li atomic Fermi gas in a quasi-two-dimensional regime with the Fermi energy comparable to the energy level spacing in the tightly confining potential. Near the Feshbach resonance, we find that the observed resonances do not correspond to transitions between confinement-induced dimers. The spectral shifts can be fit by assuming transitions between noninteracting polaron states in two dimensions.