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For a system of two identical fermions and one distinguishable particle interacting via a short-range potential with a large s-wave scattering length, the Efimov trimers and Kartavtsev-Malykh trimers exist in different regimes of the mass…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-12-17 Shimpei Endo , Pascal Naidon , Masahito Ueda

A variational wave function constructed with correlated Hyperspherical Harmonic functions is used to describe the Helium trimer. This system is known to have a deep bound state. In addition, different potential models predict the existence…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2009-11-07 Paolo Barletta , Alejandro Kievsky

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

We have measured the binding energy of $^7$Li Feshbach molecules deep into the non-universal regime by associating free atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate by modulating the magnetic field. We extract the scattering length from these…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-09-06 P. Dyke , S. E. Pollack , R. G. Hulet

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

We apply a field-theoretic functional renormalization group technique to the few-body (vacuum) physics of non-relativistic atoms near a Feshbach resonance. Three systems are considered: one-component bosons with U(1) symmetry, two-component…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-04-14 S. Moroz , S. Floerchinger , R. Schmidt , C. Wetterich

Efimov physics refers to universal phenomena associated with a discrete scaling symmetry in the 3-body problem with a large scattering length. The first experimental evidence for Efimov physics was the recent observation of a resonant peak…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-13 Eric Braaten , H. -W. Hammer

Under certain circumstances, three or more interacting particles may form bound states. While the general few-body problem is not analytically solvable, the so-called Efimov trimers appear for a system of three particles with resonant…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-14 Scott E. Pollack , Daniel Dries , Randall G. Hulet

The study of Efimov features and their relationships in $^{40}$K-$^{87}$Rb Mixtures has generated extensive discussion, yet the discrepancy between Efimov universality predictions based on the zero-range approximation and experimental…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Ning-Ning Gao , Hui-Li Han , Ting-Yun Shi

Super Efimov effect is a recently proposed three-body effect characterized by a double-exponential scaling, which has not been observed experimentally yet. Here, we present the general dynamic equations determining the cloud size of a scale…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-22 Zhe-Yu Shi , Ran Qi , Hui Zhai , Zhenhua Yu

The purpose of this paper is to show that, by combining Feshbach resonances with external confining potentials, the energy scale factor of neighboring Efimov states can be tremendously reduced. The Efimov conditions can be reached for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 E. Garrido , A. S. Jensen

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

The resonant profile of the rate coefficient for three-body recombination into a shallow dimer is investigated for mass-imbalanced systems. In the low-energy limit, three atoms collide with zero-range interactions, in a regime where the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-26 P. Giannakeas , Chris H. Greene

We study the recombination process of three atoms scattering into an atom and diatomic molecule in heteronuclear mixtures of ultracold atomic gases with large and positive interspecies scattering length at finite temperature. We calculate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-13 Samuel B. Emmons , Daekyoung Kang , Bijaya Acharya , Lucas Platter

Physical systems with a large scattering length have universal properties independent of the details of the interaction at short distances. Such systems can be realized in experiments with cold atoms close to a Feshbach resonance. They also…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-26 H. -W. Hammer

We demonstrate that a four-boson limit-cycle independent of the Efimov one appears in Hamiltonian systems at the unitary limit. The model interaction contains two-, three- and four-body short-range potentials, which disentangle the…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2023-03-28 Tobias Frederico , Mario Gattobigio

We study the interspecies scattering properties of ultracold Li-Cs mixtures in their two energetically lowest spin channels in the magnetic field range between 800 G and 1000 G. Close to two broad Feshbach resonances we create weakly bound…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 J. Ulmanis , S. Häfner , R. Pires , E. D. Kuhnle , M. Weidemüller , E. Tiemann

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

It is well-known that three-boson systems show the Efimov effect when the two-body scattering length $a$ is large with respect to the range of the two-body interaction. This effect is a manifestation of a discrete scaling invariance (DSI).…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Kievsky , M. Gattobigio , N. K. Timofeyuk

Lithium-6 atoms in the three lowest hyperfine states display universal properties when the S-wave scattering length between each pair of states is large. Recent experiments reported four pronounced features arising from Efimov physics in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-03-28 H. -W. Hammer , Daekyoung Kang , Lucas Platter