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We present a comprehensive analysis of four-body scattering in one-dimensional (1D) quantum systems using the adiabatic hyperspherical representation (AHR). Focusing on dimer-dimer collisions between two species of fermions interacting via…
Scattering and ionizing cross sections and rates are calculated for ultracold collisions between metastable helium atoms using a fully quantum-mechanical close-coupled formalism. Homonuclear collisions of the bosonic ${}^{4}$He$^{*}…
The ^4He_3 bound states and the scattering of a ^4He atom off a ^4He dimer at ultra-low energies are investigated using a hard-core version of the Faddeev differential equations. Various realistic ^4He-^4He interactions were employed, amomg…
We present a new set of three-body interaction models based on the Bruch-McGee (BM) potential that are suitable for the study of the energy, structural and elastic properties of solid 4He at high pressure. Our ab initio three-body…
3He atoms dissolved in superfluid 4He may form dimers (3He)2 in two-dimensional geometries. We study dimer formation in films of dilute 3He-4He mixture. After designing a schematic 3He-3He interaction potential we calculate the dimer…
The two-body scattering length a for 4He atoms is much larger than their effective range r_s. As a consequence, low-energy few-body observables have universal characteristics that are independent of the interaction potential. Universality…
The non-additive three-body interaction potential for helium was computed using the coupled-cluster theory and the full configuration interaction method. The obtained potential comprises an improved nonrelativistic Born--Oppenheimer energy…
We consider three-body recombination into deep dimers in a mass-imbalanced two-component atomic gas. We use an optical model where a phenomenological imaginary potential is added to the lowest adiabatic hyper-spherical potential. The…
The bound states of the fermionic ^3He(2 ^3S_1)+ ^3He(2 ^3P_j)system, where j=0,1,2, are investigated using the recently available ab initio short-range ${}^{1,3,5}\Sigma^{+}_{g,u}$ and ${}^{1,3,5}\Pi_{g,u}$ potentials computed by Deguilhem…
We calculated the 4He trimer and tetramer ground and excited states with the LM2M2 potential using our Gaussian expansion method (GEM) for ab initio variational calculations of few-body systems. The method has extensively been used for a…
Quantum theory dictates that upon weakening the two-body interaction in a three-body system, an infinite number of three-body bound states of a huge spatial extent emerge just before these three-body states become unbound. Three helium…
Excited states and excitation energies of weakly bound systems, e.g. atomic few-body systems and clusters, are difficult to study experimentally. For this purpose we propose a new and very general atom-optical method which is based on…
The high-momentum dynamic structure function of liquid 3He-4He mixtures has been studied introducing final state effects. Corrections to the impulse approximation have been included using a generalized Gersch-Rodriguez theory that properly…
The inclusion of the continuum in the study of weakly-bound three-body systems is discussed. A transformed harmonic oscillator basis is introduced to provide an appropriate discrete and finite basis for treating the continuum part of the…
Light ion (A<5) breakup cross sections are important for studies of cosmic ray interactions in the inter-stellar medium or radiation protection considerations of energy deposition in tissue. Nucleon abrasion cross sections for heavy ion…
We consider the non-relativistic four-boson system with short-range forces and large scattering length in an effective quantum mechanics approach. We construct the effective interaction potential at leading order in the large scattering…
We have used the hyperspherical adiabatic representation to describe the system of three identical bosons in an spin stretched state interacting by an attractive 1/r potential. A proposal has been made how such a system might be realized…
We study three-body recombination in two dimensions for systems interacting via short-range two-body interactions in the regime of large scattering lengths. Using the adiabatic hyperspherical representation, we derive semi-analytical…
For atoms with large scattering length, the dependence of the 3-body recombination rate on the collision energy is determined by the scattering length and the Efimov 3-body parameters and can be expressed in terms of universal functions of…
This work presents further analysis of the three- and four-neutron systems in the low energy regime using adiabatic hyperspherical methods. In our previous Phys. Rev. Lett. article (Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 052501 (2020)), the low-energy…