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Analytic expression for three-body recombination rates into deep dimers

Atomic Physics 2015-11-26 v1 Quantum Gases Quantum Physics

Abstract

We investigate three-body recombination rates into deep dimers in cold atomic gases with large scattering length within hyper-spherical adiabatic zero-range approach. We derive closed analytic expressions for the rates for one- and two-species gases. Although the deep dimers are beyond the zero-range theory the latter can still describe the recombination into deep dimers by use of one additional short-range absorption parameter. The recombination rate, as function of the scattering length, retains the known universal behavior --- the fourth power trend with characteristic log-periodic peaks --- however increasing the short-range absorption broadens the peaks until they are eventually completely smeared out. Increasing the heavy-to-light mass ratio in a two-species system decreases the distance between the peaks and increases the overal scale of the recombination rate.

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@article{arxiv.1503.04024,
  title  = {Analytic expression for three-body recombination rates into deep dimers},
  author = {D. V. Fedorov and M. Mikkelsen and A. S. Jensen and N. T. Zinner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.04024},
  year   = {2015}
}

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8 pages, 5 figures, Conference "Systems on the verge of the stability" (Critical Stability 2014)

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