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| author | Chen, Yu-Hsin Greene, Chris H. |
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| contents | Equal mass fermionic trimers with two different spin components near the unitary limit are shown to possess a universal van der Waals bound or resonance state near $s$-wave unitarity, when $p$-wave interactions are included between the particles with equal spin. Our treatment uses a single-channel Lennard-Jones interaction with long range two-body van der Waals potentials. While it is well-known that there is no true Efimov effect that would produce an infinite number of bound states in the unitary limit, we demonstrate that another type of universality emerges for the symmetry $L^Π=1^{-}$. The universality is a remnant of Efimov physics that exists in this system at $p$-wave unitarity, and it leads to modified threshold and scaling laws in that limit. Application of our model to the system of three lithium atoms studied experimentally by Du, Zhang, and Thomas [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 102}, 250402 (2009)] yields a detailed interpretation of their measured three-body recombination loss rates. |
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| spellingShingle | $P$-wave Efimov physics implications at unitarity Chen, Yu-Hsin Greene, Chris H. Atomic Physics Equal mass fermionic trimers with two different spin components near the unitary limit are shown to possess a universal van der Waals bound or resonance state near $s$-wave unitarity, when $p$-wave interactions are included between the particles with equal spin. Our treatment uses a single-channel Lennard-Jones interaction with long range two-body van der Waals potentials. While it is well-known that there is no true Efimov effect that would produce an infinite number of bound states in the unitary limit, we demonstrate that another type of universality emerges for the symmetry $L^Π=1^{-}$. The universality is a remnant of Efimov physics that exists in this system at $p$-wave unitarity, and it leads to modified threshold and scaling laws in that limit. Application of our model to the system of three lithium atoms studied experimentally by Du, Zhang, and Thomas [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 102}, 250402 (2009)] yields a detailed interpretation of their measured three-body recombination loss rates. |
| title | $P$-wave Efimov physics implications at unitarity |
| topic | Atomic Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06181 |