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Binding and structure of tetramers in the scaling limit

Soft Condensed Matter 2012-02-09 v2 Nuclear Theory Atomic and Molecular Clusters

Abstract

The momentum-space structure of the Faddeev-Yakubovsky (FY)components of weakly-bound tetramers is investigated at the unitary limit using a renormalized zero-range two-body interaction. The results, obtained by considering a given trimer level with binding energy B3B_3, provide further support to a universal scaling function relating the binding energies of two successive tetramer states. The correlated scaling between the tetramer energies comes from the sensitivity of the four-boson system to a short-range four-body scale. Each excited NN-th tetramer energy B4(N)B_4^{(N)} moves as the short-range four-body scale changes, while the trimer properties are kept fixed, with the next excited tetramer B4(N+1)B_4^{(N+1)} emerging from the atom-trimer threshold for a universal ratio B4(N)/B3=B4(N)/B4(N+1)4.6B_4^{(N)}/B_3 = B_4^ {(N)}/B_4^{(N+1)} \simeq 4.6, which does not depend on NN. We show that both channels of the FY decomposition [atom-trimer (KK-type) and dimer-dimer (HH-type)] present high momentum tails, which reflect the short-range four-body scale. We also found that the HH-channel is favored over KK-channel at low momentum when the four-body momentum scale largely overcomes the three-body one.

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@article{arxiv.1110.5214,
  title  = {Binding and structure of tetramers in the scaling limit},
  author = {M. R. Hadizadeh and M. T. Yamashita and L. Tomio and A. Delfino and T. Frederico},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.5214},
  year   = {2012}
}

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