Role of the intraspecies scattering length in the Efimov scenario with large mass difference

Häfner, Stephan; Ulmanis, Juris; Kuhnle, E. D.; Wang, Yujun; Greene, Chris H.; Weidemüller, Matthias

doi:10.1103/physreva.95.062708

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“…The Efimov geometric scaling factor has been measured in a cold-atom experiment with mass-imbalance mixtures of Caesium ( 133 Cs) and Lithium ( 6 Li) gases by different groups [3,4]. The ratio between the positions of two successive peaks in the three-body recombination rate, obtained by varying the large negative scattering lengths (a HL ), was found in close agreement with the theory.…”

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“…The energy ratio for three identical bosons is exp (2π/s 0 ) ≈ 515, decreasing for the case of two heavy particles and light one. When m L /m H = 0.01, for example, the value of this energy ratio goes to exp (2π/s 0 ) = 4.698 [2].The Efimov geometric scaling factor has been measured in a cold-atom experiment with mass-imbalance mixtures of Caesium ( 133 Cs) and Lithium ( 6 Li) gases by different groups [3,4]. The ratio between the positions of two successive peaks in the three-body recombination rate, obtained by varying the large negative scattering lengths (a HL ), was found in close agreement with the theory.…”

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Probing Efimov discrete scaling in an atom-molecule collision

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The discrete Efimov scaling behavior, well-known in the low-energy spectrum of three-body bound systems for large scattering lengths (unitary limit), is identified in the energy dependence of atommolecule elastic cross-section in mass imbalanced systems. That happens in the collision of a heavy atom with mass mH with a weakly-bound dimer formed by the heavy atom and a lighter one with mass mL mH . Approaching the heavy-light unitary limit the s−wave elastic cross-section σ will present a sequence of zeros/minima at collision energies following closely the Efimov geometrical law. Our results open a new perspective to detect the discrete scaling behavior from low-energy scattering data, which is timely in view of the ongoing experiments with ultra-cold binary mixtures having strong mass asymmetries, such as Lithium and Caesium or Lithium and Ytterbium.The Efimov effect [1] refers to a discrete scaling symmetry, which emerges in the quantum three-body system at the unitary limit (when the two-body scattering lengths diverge). The optimal condition to observe this discrete scaling symmetry in cold atomic laboratories is now found for heteronuclear three-atom systems with large mass asymmetry and large interspecies scattering lengths. In the Efimov (unitary) limit, the shallow three-body levels are geometrically spaced, namely the ratio between the binding energies of the n and n + 1 levels is given by B = exp (2π/s 0 ), where s 0 is a universal constant, which depends only on the mass ratio and not on the details of the interaction. The energy ratio for three identical bosons is exp (2π/s 0 ) ≈ 515, decreasing for the case of two heavy particles and light one. When m L /m H = 0.01, for example, the value of this energy ratio goes to exp (2π/s 0 ) = 4.698 [2].The Efimov geometric scaling factor has been measured in a cold-atom experiment with mass-imbalance mixtures of Caesium ( 133 Cs) and Lithium ( 6 Li) gases by different groups [3,4]. The ratio between the positions of two successive peaks in the three-body recombination rate, obtained by varying the large negative scattering lengths (a HL ), was found in close agreement with the theory. Complementary to this finding, a fingerprint of the Efimov scaling can be found in the s−wave ultracold atom-molecule cross-section by varying the incident momentum energy k instead of the scattering lengths. Natural, but not yet evidenced experimentally or theoretically. What we expect is beyond the trimer crossing the corresponding continuum, which creates the resonant enhancement of the inelastic collisions of Caesium atoms with Caesium dimers, as observed by Knoop et al. [5].Furthermore, there is an evident strong interest in ultra-cold heteronuclear atom-molecule collisions by experimental groups [6][7][8]. Trap setups with ultra-cold degenerated mixtures of alkali-metal-rare-earth molecules with strong mass-imbalanced systems as Ytterbium and Lithium ( 174,173 Yb− 6 Li) have also been reported in Refs. [9,10]. We should mention that on the theory side [11], reactions at ...

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“…The effect of the Cs-Cs scattering length on the Efimov resonances was investigated in Refs. [20][21][22]. 1 Connected to the Efimov states are universal bound states in the four-and higher-body sector.…”

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Tetramer bound states in heteronuclear systems

2017

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We calculate the universal spectrum of trimer and tetramer states in heteronuclear mixtures of ultracold atoms with different masses in the vicinity of the heavy-light dimer threshold. To extract the energies, we solve the three-and four-body problem for simple two-and three-body potentials tuned to the universal region using the Gaussian expansion method. We focus on the case of one light particle of mass m and two or three heavy bosons of mass M with resonant heavy-light interactions. We find that trimer and tetramer cross into the heavy-light dimer threshold at almost the same point and that as the mass ratio M/m decreases, the distance between the thresholds for trimer and tetramer states becomes smaller. We also comment on the possibility of observing exotic three-body states consisting of a dimer and two atoms in this region and compare with previous work.

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“…This adiabatic limit was stressed in the case of vdW two-body interactions study presented by Refs. [24,25]. The probability p in general depends mainly on the |a HL | a HH and the mass ratio β = m H m L but in principle it could be affected by the vdW physics in realistic scenarios.…”

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Ultracold Heteronuclear Three-Body Systems: How Diabaticity Limits the Universality of Recombination into Shallow Dimers

Giannakeas¹,

Greene²

2018

Phys. Rev. Lett.

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The mass-imbalanced three-body recombination process that forms a shallow dimer is shown to possess a rich Efimov-Stückelberg landscape, with corresponding spectra that differ fundamentally from the homonuclear case. A semianalytical treatment of the three-body recombination predicts unusual spectra with intertwined resonance peaks and minima and yields in-depth insight into the behavior of the corresponding Efimov spectra. In particular, the patterns of the Efimov-Stückelberg landscape are shown to depend inherently on the degree of diabaticity of the three-body collisions, which strongly affects the universality of the heteronuclear Efimov states.

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Role of the intraspecies scattering length in the Efimov scenario with large mass difference

Cited by 32 publications

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Probing Efimov discrete scaling in an atom-molecule collision

Probing Efimov discrete scaling in an atom-molecule collision

Tetramer bound states in heteronuclear systems

Ultracold Heteronuclear Three-Body Systems: How Diabaticity Limits the Universality of Recombination into Shallow Dimers

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