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Three particles with large scattering length display a universal spectrum of three-body bound states called "Efimov trimers''. We calculate the modification of the Efimov trimers of three identical bosons in a finite cubic box and compute…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-07-27 Simon Kreuzer , H. -W. Hammer

Three-body recombination, or ternary association, is a termolecular reaction in which three particles collide, forming a bound state between two, whereas the third escapes freely. Three-body recombination reactions play a significant role…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-03 Marjan Mirahmadi , Jesús Pérez-Ríos

We study a system of spinless fermions in two dimensions with a short-range interaction fine-tuned to a p-wave resonance. We show that three such fermions form an infinite tower of bound states of orbital angular momentum l=\pm1 and their…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-06-07 Yusuke Nishida , Sergej Moroz , Dam Thanh Son

We study the Efimov effect in a harmonic oscillator in the hyperspherical formulation, and show how a reduced model allows for a description that is a generalization of the Efimov effect in free space and leads to results that are easily…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-12-05 Jacobus Portegies , Servaas Kokkelmans

The spectral flow of three-body (trimer) states consisting of two heavy (impurity) particles sitting in a condensate of light bosons is considered. Assuming that the condensate is weakly interaction and that an impurity and a boson have a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-09-24 N. T. Zinner

A new class of universal "three-body" bound states has been recently predicted theoretically for identical fermions interacting at p-wave resonance in two dimensions. This phenomenon is called the super Efimov effect since the binding…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-03-15 Pengfei Zhang , Zhenhua Yu

We report the observation of a three-body recombination resonance in an ultracold gas of cesium atoms at a very large negative value of the $s$-wave scattering length. The resonance is identified as the second triatomic Efimov resonance,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-22 Bo Huang , Leonid A. Sidorenkov , Rudolf Grimm , Jeremy M. Hutson

In a system of ultracold atoms near a Feshbach resonance, pairs of atoms can be associated into universal dimers by an oscillating magnetic field with frequency near that determined by the dimer binding energy. We present a simple…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-18 Christian Langmack , D. Hudson Smith , Eric Braaten

We study three-body collisions within ultracold mixtures with resonant interspecies $p$-wave interactions. Our results for the three-body effective interaction strength and decay rate are crucial towards understanding the stability and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-06-02 P. M. A. Mestrom , V. E. Colussi , T. Secker , J. -L. Li , S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans

Considering one-body and two-body currents, we study the photoassociation and photodissociation of universal bosonic trimers. Analyzing the relative importance of these currents we identify two physical scenarios (i) Normal hierarchy, where…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-03-25 Betzalel Bazak , Nir Barnea

We resolve the unexpected and long-standing disagreement between experiment and theory in the Efimovian three-body spectrum of Li-7, commonly referred to as the lithium few-body puzzle. Our results show that the discrepancy arises out of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-29 J. van de Kraats , D. J. M. Ahmed-Braun , J. -L. Li , S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans

Two-body dissipation usually gives rise to a complex interaction. Here, we study the effect of two-body dissipation on few-body physics, including the fundamental two-body effective scattering and the three-body Efimov physics. By employing…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-12-30 Lihong Zhou , Xiaoling Cui

Using a generalized Bohr model and the hyper-spherical formalism for a three-body system, we derive the Thomas theorem assuming a simple interaction depending on the range of the potential. We discuss the conditions for which an unbound…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-13 H. Zheng , A. Bonasera

We study the three-body recombination of identical fermionic atoms. Using a zero-range model for the $p$-wave interaction, we show that the rate constant of three-body recombination into weakly bound $p$-wave dimers can be written as…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-25 Shangguo Zhu , Zhenhua Yu , Shizhong Zhang

We reveal a significant spin-exchange pathway in the three-body recombination process for ultracold lithium-7 atoms near a zero-crossing of the two-body scattering length. This newly discovered recombination pathway involves the exchange of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-03-14 J. -L. Li , T. Secker , P. M. A. Mestrom , S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans

Recently it has been proposed that three-component Fermi gases may exhibit a new type of crossover physics in which an unpaired Fermi sea of atoms smoothly evolves into that of trimers in addition to the ordinary BCS-BEC crossover of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-27 Yusuke Nishida

We present a study on ion-atom-atom reaction A+A+B$^+$ in a wide range of systems and collision energies ranging from 100$~\mu$K to 10$^5~$K, analyzing the two possible products: molecules and molecular ions. The dynamics is performed via a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-02-23 Marjan Mirahmadi , Jesús Pérez-Ríos

We propose to observe the Efimov effect experimentally by applying an external electric field on atomic three-body systems. We first derive the lowest order effective two-body interaction for two spin zero atoms in the field. Then we solve…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Nielsen , D. V. Fedorov , A. S. Jensen

We develop a full multichannel spin model in momentum space to investigate three-body recombination of identical alkali-metal atoms colliding in a magnetic field. The model combines the exact three-atom spin structure and realistic pairwise…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-02-24 T. Secker , J. -L. Li , P. M. A. Mestrom , S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans

The two-channel model for bosons with the three-body interaction is proposed. Similar to the Hamiltonian describing narrow Feshbach resonance in the two-body sector, our model includes the finite-range effects of the three-body potential…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-06-24 V. Polkanov , O. Hryhorchak , V. Pastukhov