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Observation of heteronuclear atomic Efimov resonances
The Efimov effect represents a cornerstone in few-body physics. Building on
the recent experimental observation with ultracold atoms, we report the first
experimental signature of Efimov physics in a heteronuclear system. A mixture
of K and Rb atoms was cooled to few hundred nanoKelvins and
stored in an optical dipole trap. Exploiting a broad interspecies Feshbach
resonance, the losses due to three-body collisions were studied as a function
of the interspecies scattering length. We observe an enhancement of the
three-body collisions for three distinct values of the interspecies scattering
lengths, both positive and negative. We attribute the two features at negative
scattering length to the existence of two kind of Efimov trimers, namely KKRb
and KRbRb.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
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
Effective Field Theory Program for Conformal Quantum Anomalies
The emergence of conformal states is established for any problem involving a
domain of scales where the long-range, SO(2,1) conformally invariant
interaction is applicable. Whenever a clear-cut separation of ultraviolet and
infrared cutoffs is in place, this renormalization mechanism produces binding
in the strong-coupling regime. A realization of this phenomenon, in the form of
dipole-bound anions, is discussed.Comment: 15 pages. Expanded, with additional calculational details. To be
published in Phys. Rev.
Analytic Confinement and Regge Trajectories
A simple relativistic quantum field model with the Yukawa-type interaction is
considered to demonstrate that the analytic confinement of the constituent
("quarks") and carrier ("gluons") particles explains qualitatively the basic
dynamical properties of the spectrum of mesons considered as two-particle
stable bound states of quarks and gluons: the quarks and gluons are confined,
the glueballs represent bound states of massless gluons, the masses of mesons
are larger than the sum of the constituent quark masses and the Regge
trajectories of mesonic orbital excitations are almost linear.Comment: RevTeX, 16 pages, 3 figures and 2 table
Top, Bottom Quarks and Higgs Bosons
In this talk, I will discuss possible new physics effects that modify the
interaction of Higgs boson(s) with top and bottom quarks, and discuss how to
detect such effects in current and future high energy colliders.Comment: LaTeX, 16 pages including 5 figure
Triatomic continuum resonances for large negative scattering lengths
We study triatomic systems in the regime of large negative scattering lengths
which may be more favorable for the formation of condensed trimers in trapped
ultracold monoatomic gases as the competition with the weakly bound dimers is
absent. The manipulation of the scattering length can turn an excited weakly
bound Efimov trimer into a continuum resonance. Its energy and width are
described by universal scaling functions written in terms of the scattering
length and the binding energy, , of the shallowest triatomic molecule. For
the excited Efimov state turns into a
continuum resonance.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Collective oscillations of a trapped Fermi gas near the unitary limit
We calculate the oscillation frequencies of trapped Fermi condensate with
particular emphasis on the equation of state of the interacting Fermi system.
We confirm Stringari's finding that the frequencies are independent of the
interaction in the unitary limit, and we extend the theory away from that
limit, where the interaction does affect the frequencies of the compressional
modes only.Comment: 4 pages, corrected a couple of trivial mistakes in table II and the
related text and added reference
Differential Form of the Skornyakov--Ter-Martirosyan Equations
The Skornyakov--Ter-Martirosyan three-boson integral equations in momentum
space are transformed into differential equations. This allows us to take into
account quite directly the Danilov condition providing self-adjointness of the
underlying three-body Hamiltonian with zero-range pair interactions. For the
helium trimer the numerical solutions of the resulting differential equations
are compared with those of the Faddeev-type AGS equations.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Observation of universality in ultracold 7Li three-body recombination
We report on experimental evidence of universality in ultracold 7Li atoms'
three-body recombination loss in the vicinity of a Feshbach resonance. We
observe a recombination minimum and an Efimov resonance in regions of positive
and negative scattering lengths, respectively, which are connected through the
pole of the Feshbach resonance. Both observed features lie deeply within the
range of validity of the universal theory and we find that the relations
between their properties, i.e. widths and locations, are in an excellent
agreement with the theoretical predictions.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
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
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