# Feynman path-integral treatment of the Bose polaron beyond the Fr\"ohlich model

## TL;DR

This paper extends the Feynman path-integral approach to study Bose polarons by including two-phonon interactions beyond the Fr"ohlich model, revealing new effects on ground-state properties and resolving previous discrepancies.

## Contribution

It introduces a beyond-Fr"ohlich model for Bose polarons using Feynman's variational approach, capturing two-phonon effects and clarifying previous theoretical inconsistencies.

## Key findings

- No self-trapping for repulsive polarons with two-phonon interactions.
- Divergence of energy and effective mass at weaker couplings for attractive polarons.
- Discrepancy with renormalization group results is resolved in the extended model.

## Abstract

An impurity immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate is no longer accurately described by the Fr\"ohlich Hamiltonian as the coupling between the impurity and the boson bath gets stronger. We study the dominant effects of the two-phonon terms beyond the Fr\"ohlich model on the ground-state properties of the polaron using Feynman's variational path-integral approach. The previously reported discrepancy in the effective mass between the renormalization group approach and this theory is shown to be absent in the beyond-Fr\"ohlich model on the positive side of the Feshbach resonance. Self-trapping, characterized by a sharp and dramatic increase of the effective mass, is no longer observed for the repulsive polaron once the two-phonon interactions are included. For the attractive polaron we find a divergence of the ground-state energy and effective mass at weaker couplings than previously observed within the Fr\"ohlich model.