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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

We present a semiclassical study of the spectrum of a few-body system consisting of two short-range interacting bosonic particles in one dimension, a particular case of a general class of integrable many-body systems where the energy…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-10 Benjamin Geiger , Juan-Diego Urbina , Quirin Hummel , Klaus Richter

The Efimov effect, with its ladder of weakly bound three-atomic molecules, poses intriguing questions in the theoretically controversial and experimentally demanding regime of merging of the first excited Efimov energy level with the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-04-07 Yaakov Yudkin , Roy Elbaz , Lev Khaykovich

A brief review of relativistic effects in few-body systems, of theoretical approaches, recent developments and applications is given. Manifestations of relativistic effects in the binding energies, in the electromagnetic form factors and in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-28 V. A. Karmanov

This review article presents historical developments and recent advances in our understanding on the three-body forces and Efimov physics, from an interdisciplinary viewpoint encompassing nuclear physics and cold atoms. Theoretical attempts…

A description of a large system of particles is often sought in a derivation from the detailed behaviour of just a few of the particles. The present thesis deals with the connection between such microscopic features and the nature of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Sørensen

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 consider the bound states of a system consisting of a light particle and two heavy bosonic ones, which are restricted in their quantum mechanical motion to two space dimensions. A $p$-wave resonance in the heavy-light short-range…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-09 Maxim A. Efremov , Wolfgang P. Schleich

We study the Efimov effect in a harmonic oscillator in the hyperspherical formulation, and show how a reduced model allows for a description that is a generalization of the Efimov effect in free space and leads to results that are easily…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-12-05 Jacobus Portegies , Servaas Kokkelmans

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 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

Three-body loss resonances associated with heavy-heavy-light Efimov states have been observed for over a decade in ultracold mixtures tuned near interspecies Feshbach resonances. For light-light-heavy systems, observing such resonances has…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-24 Karim I. Elghazawy , Chris H. Greene

Efimov physics is a universal phenomenon arising in quantum three-body systems. For systems with resonant two-body interactions, Efimov predicted an infinite series of three-body bound states with geometric scaling symmetry. These Efimov…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-13 Jacob Johansen , B. J. DeSalvo , Krutik Patel , Cheng Chin

The Efimov effect was first predicted for three particles interacting at an $s$-wave resonance in three dimensions. Subsequent study showed that the same effect can be realized by considering two-body and three-body interactions in mixed…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-27 Pengfei Zhang , Zhenhua Yu

Within the universal zero-range theory, we compute the three-body recombination rate to deep molecular states for two identical bosons resonantly interacting with each other and with a third atom of another species, in the absence of weakly…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-08-27 D. S. Petrov , F. Werner

This dissertation presents theoretical investigations of universality and finite-range corrections in few- and many-boson systems. The main focus is on ultra-cold atomic gases seen both from the three-body, many-body, and mean-field…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2009-08-07 Martin Thøgersen

In recent years extensive theoretical and experimental studies of universal few-body physics have led to advances in our understanding of universal Efimov physics [1]. The Efimov effect, once considered a mysterious and esoteric effect, is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-03 Jia Wang , J. P. D'Incao , B. D. Esry , Chris H. Greene

We show that many aspects of ultracold three-body collisions can be controlled by choosing the mass ratio between the collision partners. In the ultracold regime, the scattering length dependence of the three-body rates can be substantially…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. P. D'Incao , B. D. Esry

We consider the effective field theory (EFT) treatment of two-body systems with narrow resonances. Within this approach, an $s$-wave scattering amplitude can be expanded in powers of a typical momentum scale of a system $Q\ll \Lambda$,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-10-02 Mohammad H. Alhakami

We study few-body problems in mixed dimensions with $N \ge 2$ heavy atoms trapped individually in parallel one-dimensional tubes or two-dimensional disks, and a single light atom travels freely in three dimensions. By using the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-19 Tao Yin , Peng Zhang , Wei Zhang