Physics – Atomic Physics
Scientific paper
2008-10-21
Nature Physics 5, 417-421 (2009)
Physics
Atomic Physics
19 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
Armed with a new solution to the four-body problem, we reanalyze the recent Innsbruck observation of an Efimov resonance in three-body collisions of cesium atoms, and show that it provides evidence of new, universal four-body physics as well. Our theoretical treatment of four bosonic atoms in the limit of strong two-body attraction suggests a ubiquitous result: namely, that resonantly-bound states of all four atoms should occur whenever the two-body scattering length is a specific fraction (0.43) of the value where a three-body Efimov resonance occurs. A hitherto unanalyzed feature in the 2006 Innsbruck experiment supports this universal prediction, and it provides the first known evidence to date that a direct four-body recombination process plays a role. While we confirm the conclusion reached previously by some studies that no true Efimov effect exists for four particles, we demonstrate the existence of a universal class of four-body states that are intimately connected with three-body Efimov states.
D'Incao Jose P.
Greene Chris H.
Stecher Javier von
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