We study the possibility of associating metastable Efimov trimers from three free Bose atoms in a tight trap realized, for instance, via an optical lattice site or a microchip. The suggested scheme for the production of these molecules is based on magnetically tunable Feshbach resonances and takes advantage of the Efimov effect in three-body energy spectra. Our predictions of the energy levels and wave functions of three pairwise interacting $^{85}\mathrm{Rb}$ atoms rely upon exact solutions of the Faddeev equations and include the tightly confining potential of an isotropic harmonic atom trap. The magnetic field dependence of these energy levels indicates that it is the lowest-energetic Efimov trimer state that can be associated in an adiabatic sweep of the field strength. We show that the binding energies and spatial extents of the trimer molecules produced are comparable, in their magnitudes, to those of the associated diatomic Feshbach molecule. The three-body molecular state follows Efimov's scenario when the pairwise attraction of the atoms is strengthened by tuning the magnetic field strength.We study the possibility of associating metastable Efimov trimers from three free Bose atoms in a tight trap realized, for instance, via an optical lattice site or a microchip. The suggested scheme for the production of these molecules is based on magnetically tunable Feshbach resonances and takes advantage of the Efimov effect in three-body energy spectra. Our predictions of the energy levels and wave functions of three pairwise interacting $^{85}\mathrm{Rb}$ atoms rely upon exact solutions of the Faddeev equations and include the tightly confining potential of an isotropic harmonic atom trap. The magnetic field dependence of these energy levels indicates that it is the lowest-energetic Efimov trimer state that can be associated in an adiabatic sweep of the field strength. We show that the binding energies and spatial extents of the trimer molecules produced are comparable, in their magnitudes, to those of the associated diatomic Feshbach molecule. The three-body molecular state follows Efimov's scenario when the pairwise attraction of the atoms is strengthened by tuning the magnetic field strength.

arXiv:cond-mat/0410765Physical Review AAug 17, 200543 citations

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Absence of the efimov effect in a homogeneous magnetic field

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Finite-range corrections near a Feshbach resonance and their role in the Efimov effect

Paul Dyke, S. E. Pollack, Randall G. Hulet

We have measured the binding energy of ${}^{7}$ Li Feshbach molecules deep into the nonuniversal regime by associating atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate with a modulated magnetic field. We extract the scattering length from these measurements, correcting for nonuniversal short-range effects using the field-dependent effective range. With this more precise determination of the Feshbach resonance parameters we reanalyze our previous data on the location of atom loss features produced by the Efimov effect [Pollack et al., Science 326, 1683 (2009)]. We find the measured locations of the three- and four-body Efimov features to be consistent with universal theory at the 20%--30% level.We have measured the binding energy of ${}^{7}$Li Feshbach molecules deep into the nonuniversal regime by associating atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate with a modulated magnetic field. We extract the scattering length from these measurements, correcting for nonuniversal short-range effects using the field-dependent effective range. With this more precise determination of the Feshbach resonance parameters we reanalyze our previous data on the location of atom loss features produced by the Efimov effect [Pollack et al., Science 326, 1683 (2009)]. We find the measured locations of the three- and four-body Efimov features to be consistent with universal theory at the 20%--30% level.

arXiv:1302.0281Physical Review AAug 30, 201390 citations

^{85}\mathrm{Rb}

atoms rely upon exact solutions of the Faddeev equations and include the tightly confining potential of an isotropic harmonic atom trap. The magnetic field dependence of these energy levels indicates that it is the lowest-energetic Efimov trimer state that can be associated in an adiabatic sweep of the field strength. We show that the binding energies and spatial extents of the trimer molecules produced are comparable, in their magnitudes, to those of the associated diatomic Feshbach molecule. The three-body molecular state follows Efimov's scenario when the pairwise attraction of the atoms is strengthened by tuning the magnetic field strength.

We have measured the binding energy of

{}^{7}

Li Feshbach molecules deep into the nonuniversal regime by associating atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate with a modulated magnetic field. We extract the scattering length from these measurements, correcting for nonuniversal short-range effects using the field-dependent effective range. With this more precise determination of the Feshbach resonance parameters we reanalyze our previous data on the location of atom loss features produced by the Efimov effect [Pollack et al., Science 326, 1683 (2009)]. We find the measured locations of the three- and four-body Efimov features to be consistent with universal theory at the 20%--30% level.