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We study Efimov physics of three identical bosons with pairwise multichannel interactions for Feshbach resonances of adjustable width. We find that the two-body multichannel nature of the interaction can affect the universal three-body…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-05-12 T. Secker , D. J. M. Ahmed-Braun , P. M. A. Mestrom , S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans

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 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

Few-body physics has played a prominent role in atomic, molecular and nuclear physics since the early days of quantum mechanics. It is now possible---thanks to tremendous progress in cooling, trapping, and manipulating ultracold…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-03 D. Blume

We consider a system of three helium-4 atoms, which is so far the simplest realistic three-body system exhibiting the Efimov effect, in order to analyse deviations from the universal Efimov three-body spectrum. We first calculate the bound…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-04-29 Pascal Naidon , Emiko Hiyama , Masashito Ueda

We find that universal three-body physics extends beyond the threshold regime to non-zero energies. For ultracold atomic gases with a negative two-body $s$-wave scattering length near a Feshbach resonance, we show the resonant peaks…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Yujun Wang , B. D. Esry

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

Inspired by the narrow Feshbach resonance in systems with the two-body interaction, we propose the two-channel model of three-component fermions with the three-body interaction that takes into account the finite-range effects in low…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-01-23 V. Polkanov , V. Pastukhov

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

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

Three bosons with large scattering length show universal properties that do not depend on the details of the interaction at short distances. In the three-boson system, these properties include a geometric spectrum of shallow three-body…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-03-24 Simon Kreuzer , H. -W. Hammer

We apply the general principles of effective field theories to the construction of effective interactions suitable for few- and many-body calculations in a no-core shell model framework. We calculate the spectrum of systems with three and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-26 I. Stetcu , B. R. Barrett , U. van Kolck , J. P. Vary

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

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

A large two-body scattering length leads to universal behavior in few-body systems. In particular, the three-body system displays interesting features such as exact discrete scale invariance in the bound state spectrum in the limit of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Lucas Platter

We investigate the $s$-wave three-body system of two neutrons and one flavored meson with total spin-isospin $J=0,I=3/2$. The meson-neutron scattering length can become infinitely large in an unphysical region of the quark mass when…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-09-19 Udit Raha , Yuki Kamiya , Shung-Ichi Ando , Tetsuo Hyodo

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

Low-energy universality in atomic few-body systems as a result of a large two-body scattering length has gained a lot of attention recently. Here, I discuss recent progress in describing the three-body recombination of cold atoms in terms…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-01-08 Lucas Platter

Quantum mechanical few-body systems in reduced dimensionalities can exhibit many interesting properties such as scale-invariance and universality. Analytical descriptions are often available for integer dimensionality, however, numerical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-24 F. S. Møller , D. V. Fedorov , A. S. Jensen , N. T. Zinner