Physics – Condensed Matter – Other Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2007-02-12
Phys.Rev.A75:062713,2007
Physics
Condensed Matter
Other Condensed Matter
15 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.062713
Three-body recombination rates for cold $^4$He are calculated with a new method which exploits the simple relationship between the imaginary part of the atom-dimer elastic scattering phase shift and the $S$-matrix for recombination. The elastic phase shifts are computed above breakup threshold by solving a three-body Faddeev equation in momentum space with inputs based on a variety of modern atom-atom potentials. Recombination coefficients for the HFD-B3-FCII potential agree very well with the only previously published results. Since the elastic scattering and recombination processes for $^4$He are governed by "Efimov physics", they depend on universal functions of a scaling variable. The newly computed recombination coefficients for potentials other than HFD-B3-FCII make it possible to determine these universal functions for the first time.
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