The unitary three-body problem in a trap

Details The unitary three-body problem in a trap The unitary three-body problem in a trap

2005-07-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0507399v3

Phys.Rev.Lett.97:150401,2006

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Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

4 pages, version including a prediction for the lifetime of an Efimovian state

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.150401

We consider either 3 spinless bosons or 3 equal mass spin-1/2 fermions, interacting via a short range potential of infinite scattering length and trapped in an isotropic harmonic potential. For a zero-range model, we obtain analytically the exact spectrum and eigenfunctions: for fermions all the states are universal; for bosons there is a coexistence of decoupled universal and efimovian states. All the universal states, even the bosonic ones, have a tiny 3-body loss rate. For a finite range model, we numerically find for bosons a coupling between zero angular momentum universal and efimovian states; the coupling is so weak that, for realistic values of the interaction range, these bosonic universal states remain long-lived and observable.

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