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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 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

Few-body physics related to the Efimov effect is discussed using the functional renormalization group method. After a short review of renormalization in its modern formulation we apply this formalism to the description of scattering and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-08-20 Stefan Floerchinger , Sergej Moroz , Richard Schmidt

Macro properties of cold atomic gases are driven by few-body correlations, even if the gas has thousands of particles. Quantum systems composed of two and three particles with attractive zero\=/range pairwise interactions are considered for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-11-12 F. F. Bellotti

These lectures contain a theoretical introduction to the few-body problem with short-range resonant binary interactions. In the first part we discuss the effective range expansion for the two-body scattering amplitude emphasizing the role…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-20 D. S. Petrov

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

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

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

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

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

Two particles that are just shy of binding may develop an infinite number of shallow bound states when a third particle is added. This counter intuitive quantum mechanical result was first predicted by V. Efimov for identical bosons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Rajat K. Bhaduri , Arindam Chatterjee , Brandon P. van Zyl

The three-body problem, from the chaotic motions of celestial bodies to complex microscopic particle interactions, has always been one of the most foundational yet intricate challenges in physics since its establishment. A key breakthrough…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-03 Wei-Can Yang , Makoto Tsubota , Muneto Nitta , Hua-Bi Zeng

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

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

Some novel TWO-body effects analogous to the well-known THREE-body Efimov effect are predicted. In the systems considered, particle A is constrained on a TRUNCATED or BENT one-dimensional line or two-dimensional plane, or on one side of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-04 Shina Tan

In this paper we discuss the recent discovery of the universality of the three-body parameter (3BP) from Efimov physics. This new result was identified by recent experimental observations in ultracold quantum gases where the value of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-12 J. P. D'Incao , J. Wang , B. D. Esry , C. H. Greene

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

Efimov effect is characterized by an infinite number of three-body bound states following a universal geometric scaling law at two-body resonances. In this paper, we investigate the influence of two-body loss which can be described by a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-09-27 Mingyuan Sun , Chang Liu , Zhe-Yu Shi

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 the impact of three-body physics in quenched unitary Bose gases, focusing on the role of the Efimov effect. Using a local density model, we solve the three-body problem and determine three-body decay rates at unitary, finding…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 J. P. D'Incao , J. Wang , V. E. Colussi