Universality of the three-body Efimov parameter at narrow Feshbach resonances

Autor: Roy, Sanjukta, Landini, Manuele, Trenkwalder, Andreas, Semeghini, Giulia, Spagnolli, Giacomo, Simoni, Andrea, Fattori, Marco, Inguscio, Massimo, Modugno, Giovanni
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 053202 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.053202
Popis: We measure the critical scattering length for the appearance of the first three-body bound state, or Efimov three-body parameter, at seven different Feshbach resonances in ultracold 39K atoms. We study both intermediate and narrow resonances, where the three-body spectrum is expected to be determined by the non-universal coupling of two scattering channels. We observe instead approximately the same universal relation of the three-body parameter with the two-body van der Waals radius already found for broader resonances, which can be modeled with a single channel. This unexpected observation suggests the presence of a new regime for three-body scattering at narrow resonances.
Databáze: arXiv