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We present the experimental apparatus enabling the observation of the heteronuclear Efimov effect in an optically trapped ultracold mixture of $^6$Li-$^{133}$Cs with high-resolution control of the interactions. A compact double-species…

Extremely weakly-bound three-boson systems are predicted to exhibit intriguing universal properties such as discrete scale invariance. Motivated by recent experimental studies of the ground and excited helium trimers, this work analyzes the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-12-08 D. Blume

We discuss several issues important for experimentally observing Efimov physics in ultracold quantum gases. By numerically solving the three-boson Schr\"odinger equation over a broad range of scattering lengths and energies, and by…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-02-10 J. P. D'Incao , Chris H. Greene , B. D. Esry

We consider a system of three identical bosons in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with two-body zero-range interactions and a three-body hard-core repulsion of a given radius $a>0$. Using a quadratic form approach we prove that the corresponding Hamiltonian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Davide Fermi , Daniele Ferretti , Alessandro Teta

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

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

In Efimov physics, a three-body parameter (3BP), previously regarded as nonuniversal, uniquely defines bound and scattering properties of three particles. A universal 3BP, however, have been recently shown in experiments and theory in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-12-13 Yujun Wang , Jia Wang , J. P. D'Incao , Chris H. Greene

The transition from a few-body system to a many-body system can result in new length scales, novel collective phenomena or even in a phase transition. Such a threshold behavior was shown for example in 4He droplets, where 4He turns into a…

A non-relativistic system of three identical particles will display a rich set of universal features known as Efimov physics if the scattering length a is much larger than the range l of the underlying two-body interaction. An appropriate…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Lucas Platter , Chen Ji , Daniel R. Phillips

We observed an enhanced atom-dimer relaxation due to the existence of Efimov states in a three-component mixture of 6Li atoms. We measured the magnetic-field dependence of the atom-dimer loss coefficient in the mixture of atoms in state |1>…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Nakajima , M. Horikoshi , T. Mukaiyama , P. Naidon , M. Ueda

Atoms with a large scattering length have universal low-energy properties that do not depend on the details of their structure or their interactions at short distances. In the 2-atom sector, the universal properties are familiar and depend…

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

We study small clusters of bosons, $A=2,3,4,5,6$, characterized by a resonant interaction. Firstly, we use a soft-gaussian interaction that reproduces the values of the dimer binding energy and the atom-atom scattering length obtained with…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2015-06-12 M. Gattobigio , A. Kievsky , M. Viviani

We present a comprehensive collection of ultracold three-body collisions properties near overlapping Feshbach resonances. Our results incorporate variations of all scattering lengths and demonstrate novel collisional behavior, such as…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. P. D'Incao , B. D. Esry

For a system of three identical bosons interacting via short-range forces, when two of the atoms are about to form a two-body s-wave dimer, there exists an infinite number of three-body bound states. This effect is the well-known Efimov…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jia Wang , J. P. D'Incao , Yujun Wang , Chris H. Greene

In quantum physics, Efimov trimers are bound states of three particles that fall apart like Borromean rings when one of them is removed. Initially predicted in nuclear physics, these striking bosonic states are hard to observe, but the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-05-06 Swann Piatecki , Werner Krauth

We use a minimal zero-range model for describing the bound state spectrum of three-body states consisting of two Cesium and one Lithium atom. Using a broad Feshbach resonance model for the two-body interactions, we show that recent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-06 N. T. Zinner , N. G. Nygaard

We present a state-of-the-art reanalysis of experimental results on Efimov resonances in the three-fermion system of $^6$Li. We discuss different definitions of the 3-body parameter (3BP) for Efimov states, and adopt a definition that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-22 Bo Huang , Kenneth M. O'Hara , Rudolf Grimm , Jeremy M. Hutson , Dmitry S. Petrov

We apply a functional renormalisation group to systems of four bosonic atoms close to the unitary limit. We work with a local effective action that includes a dynamical trimer field and we use this field to eliminate structures that do not…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-10-30 Benjamin Jaramillo Avila , Michael C. Birse

We consider collisional properties of weakly bound heteronuclear molecules (dimers) formed in a two-species mixture of atoms with a large mass difference. We focus on dimers containing light fermionic atoms as they manifest collisional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-03-15 B. Marcelis , S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans , G. V. Shlyapnikov , D. S. Petrov

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