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Atom-Dimer Scattering in a Three-Component Fermi Gas
Ultracold gases of three distinguishable particles with large scattering
lengths are expected to show rich few-body physics related to the Efimov
effect. We have created three different mixtures of ultracold 6Li atoms and
weakly bound 6Li2 dimers consisting of atoms in three different hyperfine
states and studied their inelastic decay via atom-dimer collisions. We have
found resonant enhancement of the decay due to the crossing of Efimov-like
trimer states with the atom-dimer continuum in one mixture as well as minima of
the decay in another mixture, which we interpret as a suppression of exchange
reactions of the type |12>+|3> -> |23>+|1>. Such a suppression is caused by
interference between different decay paths and demonstrates the possiblity to
use Efimov physics to control the rate constants for molecular exchange
reactions in the ultracold regime.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Collective Excitations of Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases of Atoms in a Harmonic Trap
The zero-temperature properties of a dilute two-component Fermi gas in the
BCS-BEC crossover are investigated. On the basis of a generalization of the
Hylleraas-Undheim method, we construct rigorous upper bounds to the collective
frequencies for the radial and the axial breathing mode of the Fermi gas under
harmonic confinement in the framework of the hydrodynamic theory. The bounds
are compared to experimental data for trapped vapors of Li6 atoms.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figure
Exact relations for quantum-mechanical few-body and many-body problems with short-range interactions in two and three dimensions
We derive relations between various observables for N particles with
zero-range or short-range interactions, in continuous space or on a lattice, in
two or three dimensions, in an arbitrary external potential. Some of our
results generalise known relations between large-momentum behavior of the
momentum distribution, short-distance behavior of the pair correlation function
and of the one-body density matrix, derivative of the energy with respect to
the scattering length or to time, and the norm of the regular part of the
wavefunction; in the case of finite-range interactions, the interaction energy
is also related to dE/da. The expression relating the energy to a functional of
the momentum distribution is also generalised, and is found to break down for
Efimov states with zero-range interactions, due to a subleading oscillating
tail in the momentum distribution. We also obtain new expressions for the
derivative of the energy of a universal state with respect to the effective
range, the derivative of the energy of an efimovian state with respect to the
three-body parameter, and the second order derivative of the energy with
respect to the inverse (or the logarithm in the two-dimensional case) of the
scattering length. The latter is negative at fixed entropy. We use exact
relations to compute corrections to exactly solvable three-body problems and
find agreement with available numerics. For the unitary gas, we compare exact
relations to existing fixed-node Monte-Carlo data, and we test, with existing
Quantum Monte Carlo results on different finite range models, our prediction
that the leading deviation of the critical temperature from its zero range
value is linear in the interaction effective range r_e with a model independent
numerical coefficient.Comment: 51 pages, 5 figures. Split into three articles: Phys. Rev. A 83,
063614 (2011) [arXiv:1103.5157]; Phys. Rev. A 86, 013626 (2012)
[arXiv:1204.3204]; Phys. Rev. A 86, 053633 (2012) [ arXiv:1210.1784
Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory for Trapped Strongly-Interacting Fermionic Atoms
The dynamics of strongly interacting trapped dilute Fermi gases (dilute in
the sense that the range of interatomic potential is small compared with
inter-particle spacing) is investigated in a single-equation approach to the
time-dependent density-functional theory. Our results are in good agreement
with recent experimental data in the BCS-BEC crossover regime. It is also shown
that the calculated corrections to the hydrodynamic approximation may be
important even for systems with a rather large number of atoms.Comment: Resubmitted to PRA in response to referee's comments. Abstract is
changed. Added new figure
Numerical study of the effect of rotation on the behavior of the conjugate heat and mass transfer on the surface of a spherically blunted cone exposed to a hypersonic flow at an angle of attack with ablation from the surface
The processes of heating a body in a high-enthalpy spatial flow with allowance for body rotation around its longitudinal axis and ablation of the thermal protection material are studied by means of mathematical simulation. The obtained solution of the problem in conjugate formulation allowed us to take into account the effect of nonisothermic characteristics of the shell on the heat and mass transfer in the boundary layer
Observation of an Efimov resonance in an ultracold mixture of atoms and weakly bound dimers
We discuss our recent observation of an atom-dimer Efimov resonance in an
ultracold mixture of Cs atoms and Cs_2 Feshbach molecules [Nature Phys. 5, 227
(2009)]. We review our experimental procedure and present additional data
involving a non-universal g-wave dimer state, to contrast our previous results
on the universal s-wave dimer. We resolve a seeming discrepancy when
quantitatively comparing our experimental findings with theoretical results
from effective field theory.Comment: Conference Proceeding ICPEAC 2009 Kalamazoo, to appear in Journal of
Physics: Conference Serie
Observation of an Efimov resonance in an ultracold mixture of atoms and weakly bound dimers
We discuss our recent observation of an atom-dimer Efimov resonance in an
ultracold mixture of Cs atoms and Cs_2 Feshbach molecules [Nature Phys. 5, 227
(2009)]. We review our experimental procedure and present additional data
involving a non-universal g-wave dimer state, to contrast our previous results
on the universal s-wave dimer. We resolve a seeming discrepancy when
quantitatively comparing our experimental findings with theoretical results
from effective field theory.Comment: Conference Proceeding ICPEAC 2009 Kalamazoo, to appear in Journal of
Physics: Conference Serie
Observation of an Efimov resonance in an ultracold mixture of atoms and weakly bound dimers
We discuss our recent observation of an atom-dimer Efimov resonance in an
ultracold mixture of Cs atoms and Cs_2 Feshbach molecules [Nature Phys. 5, 227
(2009)]. We review our experimental procedure and present additional data
involving a non-universal g-wave dimer state, to contrast our previous results
on the universal s-wave dimer. We resolve a seeming discrepancy when
quantitatively comparing our experimental findings with theoretical results
from effective field theory.Comment: Conference Proceeding ICPEAC 2009 Kalamazoo, to appear in Journal of
Physics: Conference Serie
Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays and Stable H-dibaryon
It is shown that an instanton induced interaction between quarks produces a
very deeply bound H-dibaryon with mass below 2M_N, M_H=1718 MeV. Therefore the
H-dibaryon is predicted to be a stable particle. The reaction of
photodisintegration of H-dibaryon to in during of its penetration
into cosmic microwave background will result in a new possible cut-off in the
cosmic-ray spectrum. This provides an explanation of ultra-high energy cosmic
ray events observed above the GZK cut-off as a result of the strong interaction
of high energy H-dibaryons from cosmic rays with nuclei in Earth's atmosphere.Comment: 5 pages, Late
On the two-photon decay width of the sigma meson
We shortly report on the two-photon decay width of the light -meson
interpreted as a quarkonium state. Results are given in dependence on the
-mass and the constituent mass of the light quark. The triangle
quark-loop diagram, responsible for the two-photon transition, is carefully
evaluated: a term in the transition amplitude, often omitted in literature,
results in destructive interference with the leading term. As a result we show
that the two-photon decay width of the in the quarkonium picture is
less than 1 keV for the physical range of parameters.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
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