An all-coupling theory for the Fr\"ohlich polaron

Abstract

The Fr\"ohlich model describes the interaction of a mobile impurity with a surrounding bath of phonons which leads to the formation of a quasiparticle, the polaron. In this article an efficient renormalization group approach is presented which provides a description of Fr\"ohlich polarons in all regimes ranging from weak- to strong coupling. We apply the method to the Bose polaron problem of an ultracold impurity atom interacting with a background gas that is Bose-condensed. The extended renormalization group approach introduced here is capable to predict ground state properties for arbitrarily small impurity masses. This allows us to obtain the full phase diagram of the corresponding Bogoliubov-Fr\"ohlich Hamiltonian, characterized by two dimensionless coupling constants. Our method is benchmarked by comparison of the ground state energy to recent diagrammatic quantum Monte Carlo calculations.