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Efimov states near a Feshbach resonance

Other Condensed Matter 2014-11-17 v4

Abstract

We describe three-body collisions close to a Feshbach resonance by taking into account two-body scattering processes involving both the open and the closed channel. We extract the atom-dimer scattering length and the three-body recombination rate, predicting the existence at negative scattering length of a sharp minimum in the recombination losses due to the presence of a shallow bound level. We obtain very good agreement with the experimental results in atomic 133Cs of Kraemer et al. [Nature 440, 315 (2006)], and predict the position of Efimov resonances in a gas of 39K atoms.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0702462,
  title  = {Efimov states near a Feshbach resonance},
  author = {P. Massignan and H. T. C. Stoof},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0702462},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

Version accepted for publication: minor revisions concerning the comparison with the cesium experiment