Physics – Atomic and Molecular Clusters
Scientific paper
2011-01-10
Physics
Atomic and Molecular Clusters
15 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Few-Body Systems
Scientific paper
The helium trimer is studied using two- and three-body soft-core potentials. Realistic helium-helium potentials present an extremely strong short-range repulsion and support a single, very shallow, bound state. The description of systems with more than two helium atoms is difficult due to the very large cancellation between kinetic and potential energy. We analyze the possibility of describing the three helium system in the ultracold regime using a gaussian representation of a widely used realistic potential, the LM2M2 interaction. However, in order to describe correctly the trimer ground state a three-body force has to be added to the gaussian interaction. With this potential model the two bound states of the trimer and the low energy scattering helium-dimer phase shifts obtained with the LM2M2 potential are well reproduced.
Barletta Paolo
Garrido E.
Kievsky Alejandro
Romero-Redondo C.
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