Long-range mediated interactions in a mixed-dimensional system

We present a mixed-dimensional atomic gas system to unambiguously detect and systematically probe mediated interactions. In our scheme, fermionic atoms are confined in two parallel planes and interact via exchange of elementary excitations in a three-dimensional background gas. This interaction gives rise to a frequency shift of the out-of-phase dipole oscillations of the two clouds, which we calculate using a strong-coupling theory taking the two-body mixed-dimensional scattering into account exactly. The shift is shown to be easily measurable for strong interactions and can be used as a probe for mediated interactions.