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We solve the three-body bound state problem in three dimensions for mass imbalanced systems of two identical bosons and a third particle in the universal limit where the interactions are assumed to be of zero-range. The system displays the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-06-21 M. T. Yamashita , F. F. Bellotti , T. Frederico , D. V. Fedorov , A. S. Jensen , N. T. Zinner

The low-energy spectrum of three particles interacting via nearly resonant two-body interactions in the Efimov regime is set by the so-called three-body parameter. We show that the three-body parameter is essentially determined by the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-03-25 Pascal Naidon , Shimpei Endo , Masahito Ueda

The quantum mechanical three-body problem is a source of continuing interest due to its complexity and not least due to the presence of fascinating solvable cases. The prime example is the Efimov effect where infinitely many bound states of…

We consider a three-boson system with resonant binary interactions and show that three-body observables depend only on the resonance width and the scattering length. The effect of narrow resonances is qualitatively different from that of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. S. Petrov

Resonant P-wave interactions can be described by a minimal zero-range model defined by a truncated effective range expansion, so that the only 2-body interaction parameters are the inverse scattering volume 1/a_P and the P-wave effective…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-08-20 Eric Braaten , P. Hagen , H. -W. Hammer , L. Platter

We employ the Born-Oppenheimer approximation to find the effective potential in a three-body system consisting of a light particle and two heavy ones when the heavy-light short-range interaction potential has a resonance corresponding to a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-09-25 Maxim A. Efremov , Lev Plimak , Misha Yu. Ivanov , Wolfgang P. Schleich

We describe three-body collisions close to a Feshbach resonance by taking into account two-body scattering processes involving both the open and the closed channel. We extract the atom-dimer scattering length and the three-body…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-17 P. Massignan , H. T. C. Stoof

We discuss effective field theory treatments of the problem of three particles interacting via short-range forces (range R >> a_2, with a_2 the two-body scattering length). We show that forming a once-subtracted scattering equation yields a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-04-17 L. Platter , D. R. Phillips

In this work, we study the Efimov effect in a mass-imbalanced system consisting of two heavy particles and one light particle within the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. The result obtained in R. Figari, H. Saberbaghi, and A. Teta, J. Phys.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 Hamidreza Saberbaghi

We review some unresolved theoretical issues in three-dimensional two-component Fermi gases, drawing on recent experiments on cold atoms in immaterial traps close to a magnetic Feshbach resonance. We distinguish successively (i) the open…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-05-20 Yvan Castin

Strongly interacting systems appear in several areas of physics and are characterized by attractive interactions that can almost, or just barely, loosely bind two particles. Although this definition is made at the two-body level, this gives…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 Lucas Madeira

We use an effective-field-theory framework to analyze the Efimov effect in heteronuclear three-body systems consisting of two species of atoms with a large interspecies scattering length. In the leading-order description of this theory,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-09-14 Bijaya Acharya , Chen Ji , Lucas Platter

This article reviews theoretical and experimental advances in Efimov physics, an array of quantum few-body and many-body phenomena arising for particles interacting via short-range resonant interactions, that is based on the appearance of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 Pascal Naidon , Shimpei Endo

In this work we derive a systematic short-range expansion of the many-body wave function. At leading order, the wave function is factorized to a zero-energy $s$-wave correlated pair and spectator particles, while terms that include energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-07-13 Ronen Weiss , Diego Lonardoni , Stefano Gandolfi

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

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

Bound states and collisions of atoms with two-channel two-body interactions in harmonic waveguides are analyzed. The closed-channel contributions to two-atom bound states become dominant in the case of a weak resonance. At low energies and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Yurovsky

We study the three-body system with short-range interactions characterized by an unnaturally large two-body scattering length. We show that the off-shell scattering amplitude is cutoff independent up to power corrections. This allows us to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 H. -W. Hammer , Thomas Mehen

The quantum-mechanical three-body problem is one of the fundamental challenges of few-body physics. When the two-body interactions become resonant, an infinite series of universal three-body bound states is predicted to occur, whose…

We analyse scattering of a heavy atom off a weakly bound molecule comprising an identical heavy and a light atom in the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. We focus on the situation where the heavy atoms are bosons, which was realized in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. A. Efremov , L. Plimak , B. Berg , M. Yu. Ivanov , W. P. Schleich