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We calculate shallow three-body bound states in the universal regime, defined by Efimov, with inclusion of both scattering length and effective range parameters. The universal spectrum is recovered for the least bound states, whereas for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-11-27 P. K. Sørensen , D. V. Fedorov , A. S. Jensen , N. T. Zinner

A quantum-mechanical description is presented for the three-body physics of shielded dipolar molecules, including a prediction of observable Efimov physics. Despite the anisotropic and long-range nature of the interaction, shielding enables…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Shayamal Singh , Chris H. Greene

We study the semisuper-Efimov effect, which is found for four identical bosons with a resonant three-body interaction in 2D, in various systems. Based on solutions of bound-state and renormalization-group equations, we first demonstrate an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-02-19 Yusuke Horinouchi

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

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

We successfully reproduced the derivation of Efimov energy levels in three-dimensional space. In subsequent discussions, we extended this derivation to Schwarzschild spacetime. By combining the Schr\"odinger equation in curved spacetime, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Yixuan Feng

Ultracold atomic gases are an important testing ground for understanding few-body physics. In particular, these systems enable a detailed study of the Efimov effect. We use ultracold $^{39}\mathrm{K}$ to investigate the temperature…

We consider a system of three helium-4 atoms, which is so far the simplest realistic three-body system exhibiting the Efimov effect, in order to analyse deviations from the universal Efimov three-body spectrum. We first calculate the bound…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-04-29 Pascal Naidon , Emiko Hiyama , Masashito Ueda

When three particles in three dimensions interact with a short-range potential fine-tuned to an infinite scattering length, they form an infinite sequence of loosely bound states obeying discrete scale invariance known as Efimov states.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Yusuke Nishida

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 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 the system of 3 nonrelativistic spinless fermions in two dimensions, which interact through spherically-symmetric pair interactions. Recently a claim has been made for the existence of the so-called super Efimov effect [Y.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-27 Dmitry K. Gridnev

We give a detailed and self-contained description of a recently developed theoretical and numerical method for the simulation of three identical bosonic alkali-metal atoms near a Feshbach resonance, where the Efimov effect is induced. The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-09-18 J. van de Kraats , S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans

A new class of universal "three-body" bound states has been recently predicted theoretically for identical fermions interacting at p-wave resonance in two dimensions. This phenomenon is called the super Efimov effect since the binding…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-03-15 Pengfei Zhang , Zhenhua Yu

Armed with a new solution to the four-body problem, we reanalyze the recent Innsbruck observation of an Efimov resonance in three-body collisions of cesium atoms, and show that it provides evidence of new, universal four-body physics as…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-06-02 Javier von Stecher , Jose P. D'Incao , Chris H. Greene

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

We calculate the three-body spectrum for identical bosons interacting via attractive $1/r^2$ potentials. We have found an infinite number of three-body states even when the pair interactions are too weak to support any two-body states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-05 Nicolais Guevara , Yujun Wang , B. D. Esry

In the limit when the two-body scattering length $a$ is negative and much larger than the effective two-body interaction radius the contribution to the ground state energy due to the three-body correlations is given by the Efimov effect.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-12 Aurel Bulgac

Efimov physics relates to 3-body systems with large 2-body scattering lengths a and small effective ranges r. For many systems in nature the assumption of a small effective range is not valid. The present report shows binding energies E of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-10-07 Sigurd Kohler

The Efimov phenomenon manifests itself as an emergent discrete scaling symmetry in the quantum three-body problem. In the unitarity limit, it leads to an infinite tower of three-body bound states with energies forming a geometric sequence.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-06 Sebastian M. Dawid , Md Habib E Islam , Raúl A. Briceño , Andrew W. Jackura