The Weakly Coupled Two-Dimensional Fermi Polaron

Abstract We analyze the ground state energy of N fermions in a two-dimensional box interacting with an impurity particle via two-body point interactions. We show that for weak coupling, the ground state energy is asymptotically described by the polaron energy, as proposed by F. Chevy in the physics literature. The polaron energy is the solution of a nonlinear equation involving the Green’s function of the free Fermi gas and the binding energy of the two-body point interaction. We provide quantitative error estimates that are uniform in the thermodynamic limit.