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Physics is said to be universal when it emerges regardless of the underlying microscopic details. A prominent example is the Efimov effect, which predicts the emergence of an infinite tower of three-body bound states obeying discrete scale…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-26 Yusuke Nishida , Yasuyuki Kato , Cristian D. Batista

Few-body systems with large scattering length have universal properties that do not depend on the details of their interactions at short distances. We study the universal bound state properties of the four-boson system with large scattering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. -W. Hammer , L. Platter

When two non-relativistic particles interact resonantly in three dimensions, an infinite tower of three-body bound states emerges, exhibiting a discrete scale invariance. This universal phenomenon, known as the Efimov effect, has garnered…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-16 Ning Sun , Lei Feng , Pengfei Zhang

When two particles attract via a resonant short-range interaction, three particles always form an infinite tower of bound states characterized by a discrete scaling symmetry. It has been considered that this Efimov effect exists only in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-19 Yusuke Nishida , Shina Tan

We demonstrate the emergence of universal Efimov physics for interacting photons in cold gases of Rydberg atoms. We consider the behavior of three photons injected into the gas in their propagating frame, where a paraxial approximation…

Ultracold atomic gases have developed into prime systems for experimental studies of Efimov three-body physics and related few-body phenomena, which occur in the universal regime of resonant interactions. In the last few years, many…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-10-21 F. Ferlaino , A. Zenesini , M. Berninger , B. Huang , H. -C. Nägerl , R. Grimm

Systems of three interacting particles are notorious for their complex physical behavior. A landmark theoretical result in few-body quantum physics is Efimov's prediction of a universal set of bound trimer states appearing for three…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Kraemer , M. Mark , P. Waldburger , J. G. Danzl , C. Chin , B. Engeser , A. D. Lange , K. Pilch , A. Jaakkola , H. -C. Naegerl , R. Grimm

We study three- and four-body Efimov physics in a heteronuclear atomic system with three identical heavy bosonic atoms and one light atom. We show that exchange of the light atom between the heavy atoms leads to both three- and four-body…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-02-27 Yujun Wang , W. Blake Laing , Javier von Stecher , B. D. Esry

In the low-energy limit, non-relativistic particles with short-range interactions exhibit universal behavior that is largely independent of microscopic details. This universality is typically described by effective field theory, in which…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-06-17 Langxuan Chen , Pengfei Zhang

A universal characterization of interactions in few- and many-body quantum systems is often possible without detailed description of the interaction potential, and has become a defacto assumption for cold atom research. Universality in this…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-23 Nathan Gemelke , Chen-Lung Hung , Xibo Zhang , Cheng Chin

We study two species of particles in two dimensions interacting by isotropic short-range potentials with the interspecies potential fine-tuned to a p-wave resonance. Their universal low-energy physics can be extracted by analyzing a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-12-25 Sergej Moroz , Yusuke Nishida

Ultracold atomic gases have recently become a driving force in few-body physics due to the observation of the Efimov effect. While initially observed in equal mass systems, one expects even richer few-body physics in the heteronuclear case.…

We study the universality of the three-body parameters for systems relevant for ultracold quantum gases with positive $s$-wave two-body scattering lengths. Our results account for finite-range effects and their universality is tested by…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Paul M. A. Mestrom , Jia Wang , Chris H. Greene , Jose P. D'Incao

Efimov states are a sequence of shallow three-body bound states that arise when the two-body scattering length is much larger than the range of the interaction. The binding energies of these states are described as a function of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-06-18 M. Gattobigio , M. Göbel , H. -W. Hammer , A. Kievsky

We calculate bound and scattering properties of a system of two neutral atoms and an ion near an atom-ion Feshbach resonance. Our results indicate that long-range atom-ion interactions lead to significant deviations from universal behavior…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Jacek Gȩbala , Michał Tomza , José P. D'Incao

Armed with a new solution to the four-body problem, we reanalyze the recent Innsbruck observation of an Efimov resonance in three-body collisions of cesium atoms, and show that it provides evidence of new, universal four-body physics as…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-06-02 Javier von Stecher , Jose P. D'Incao , Chris H. Greene

Efimov states are a sequence of shallow 3-body bound states that arise when the 2-body scattering length is large. Efimov showed that the binding energies of these states can be calculated in terms of the scattering length and a 3-body…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Eric Braaten , H. -W. Hammer , M. Kusunoki

Recent measurements of Efimov resonances in a number of ultracold atom species have revealed an unexpected universality, in which three-body scattering properties are determined by the van der Waals length of the two-body interaction…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-09-12 Ruth S. Bloom , Ming-Guang Hu , Tyler D. Cumby , Deborah S. Jin

The structure of few-fermion systems having $1/2$ spin-isospin symmetry is studied using potential models. The strength and range of the two-body potentials are fixed to describe low energy observables in the angular momentum $L=0$ state…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 A. Kievsky , M. Gattobigio

We investigate theoretically and experimentally the heteronuclear Efimov scenario for a three-body system that consists of two bosons and one distinguishable particle with positive intraspecies scattering lengths. The three-body parameter…