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Interwoven limit cycles in the spectra of mass imbalanced many-boson system

Quantum Physics 2019-03-26 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The independence between few-body scales beyond the van der Waals universality is demonstrated for the extreme mass-imbalanced case of a specific many-boson system. This finding generalizes the scaling properties of universal tetramers to a broader class of heterogeneous few-boson systems. We assume two heavy atoms interacting with (N2)(N-2)-lighter ones at the unitary limit, using a particular case where no interactions are active between identical particles, by investigating the interwoven spectra of this many-body system for an arbitrary number of light bosons. A large mass-ratio between the particles allows us to treat this NN-body system analytically, by solving an effective inverse-squared long-range interaction which is stablished for the two heavy bosons. For a cluster with N2N-2 light bosons (N4N\ge 4), we discuss the implications of the corresponding long-range potentials associated with different subsystem thresholds, implying in independent interwoven limit cycles for the correlation between the energies of excited NN-body system. Our study with extreme mass-imbalanced few-boson bound states provides a fundamental understanding of the scaling behavior of their interwoven spectra. The novel insights enlarge the well-known Efimov physics paradigm and show the existence of different limit cycles, which could be probed by new experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1903.10321,
  title  = {Interwoven limit cycles in the spectra of mass imbalanced many-boson system},
  author = {W. De Paula and A. Delfino and T. Frederico and Lauro Tomio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.10321},
  year   = {2019}
}