Efimov physics: a review

P Naidon, S Endo - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This article reviews theoretical and experimental advances in Efimov physics, an array of
quantum few-body and many-body phenomena arising for particles interacting via short …

Universal few-body physics and cluster formation

CH Greene, P Giannakeas, J Pérez-Ríos - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
A recent rejuvenation of experimental and theoretical interest in the physics of few-body
systems has provided deep, fundamental insights into a broad range of problems. Few-body …

Observation of attractive and repulsive polarons in a Bose-Einstein condensate

NB Jørgensen, L Wacker, KT Skalmstang, MM Parish… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
The problem of an impurity particle moving through a bosonic medium plays a fundamental
role in physics. However, the canonical scenario of a mobile impurity immersed in a Bose …

Measurements of Tan's contact in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate

RJ Wild, P Makotyn, JM Pino, EA Cornell, DS ** - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
A powerful set of universal relations, centered on a quantity called the contact, connects the
strength of short-range two-body correlations to the thermodynamics of a many-body system …

Observation of Efimov resonances in a mixture with extreme mass imbalance

R Pires, J Ulmanis, S Häfner, M Repp, A Arias… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We observe two consecutive heteronuclear Efimov resonances in an ultracold Li-Cs mixture
by measuring three-body loss coefficients as a function of magnetic field near a Feshbach …

Impurity in a Bose-Einstein condensate and the Efimov effect

J Levinsen, MM Parish, GM Bruun - Physical Review Letters, 2015 - APS
We investigate the zero-temperature properties of an impurity particle interacting with a Bose-
Einstein condensate (BEC), using a variational wave function that includes up to two …

Geometric Scaling of Efimov States in a Mixture

SK Tung, K Jiménez-García, J Johansen, CV Parker… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
In few-body physics, Efimov states are an infinite series of three-body bound states that obey
universal discrete scaling symmetry when pairwise interactions are resonantly enhanced …

Sticky collisions of ultracold RbCs molecules

PD Gregory, MD Frye, JA Blackmore, EM Bridge… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Understanding and controlling collisions is crucial to the burgeoning field of ultracold
molecules. All experiments so far have observed fast loss of molecules from the trap …

Observation of the second triatomic resonance in Efimov's scenario

B Huang, LA Sidorenkov, R Grimm, JM Hutson - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
We report the observation of a three-body recombination resonance in an ultracold gas of
cesium atoms at a very large negative value of the s-wave scattering length. The resonance …

Origin of the three-body parameter universality in Efimov physics

J Wang, JP D'Incao, BD Esry, CH Greene - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
In recent years extensive theoretical and experimental studies of universal few-body physics
have advanced our understanding of universal Efimov physics. Whereas theory had been …