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Renormalization group study of the four-body problem

Quantum Gases 2014-11-20 v2 Other Condensed Matter Nuclear Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

We perform a renormalization group analysis of the non-relativistic four-boson problem by means of a simple model with pointlike three- and four-body interactions. We investigate in particular the unitarity point where the scattering length is infinite and all energies are at the atom threshold. We find that the four-body problem behaves truly universally, independent of any four-body parameter. Our findings confirm the recent conjectures of Platter et al. and von Stecher et al. that the four-body problem is universal, now also from a renormalization group perspective. We calculate the corresponding relations between the four- and three-body bound states, as well as the full bound state spectrum and comment on the influence of effective range corrections.

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@article{arxiv.0910.4586,
  title  = {Renormalization group study of the four-body problem},
  author = {Richard Schmidt and Sergej Moroz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.4586},
  year   = {2014}
}

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11 pages, 6 figures; v2: revised and published version

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