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arXiv:2002.07330

Universality of semisuper-Efimov effect

Yusuke Horinouchi

Published Feb 18, 2020• 0 citations
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Abstract

We study the semisuper-Efimov effect, which is found for four identical bosons with a resonant three-body interaction in 2D, in various systems. Based on solutions of bound-state and renormalization-group equations, we first demonstrate an emergence of the semisuper-Efimov effect in mass-imbalanced bosons in 2D. Compared with the Efimov and the super-Efimov effects, the mass ratio-dependent scaling parameter is unexpectedly found to take on a finite value even for extremely mass-imbalanced situations, where the mass ratio is 0 or $\infty$. By a renormalization-group analysis, we also show that a weak two-body interaction sustains the semisuper-Efimov effect. Finally, we liberate the universality of the semisuper-Efimov effect from 2D by showing that bosons with linear-dispersion relation support the semisuper-Efimov effect in 1D.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.2002.07330

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We study two species of particles in two dimensions interacting by isotropic short-range potentials with the interspecies potential fine-tuned to a ppp-wave resonance. Their universal low-energy physics can be extracted by analyzing a properly constructed low-energy effective field theory with the renormalization group method. Consequently, a three-body system consisting of two particles of one species and one of the other is shown to exhibit the super Efimov effect, the emergence of an infinite tower of three-body bound states with orbital angular momentum $\ensuremath{\ell}=\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}1$ whose binding energies obey a doubly exponential scaling, when the two particles are heavier than the other by a mass ratio greater than 4.034 04 for identical bosons and 2.414 21 for identical fermions. With increasing the mass ratio, the super Efimov spectrum becomes denser which would make its experimental observation easier. We also point out that the Born-Oppenheimer approximation is incapable of reproducing the super Efimov effect, the universal low-energy asymptotic scaling of the spectrum.
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We study a system of spinless fermions in two dimensions with a short-range interaction fine-tuned to a ppp-wave resonance. We show that three such fermions form an infinite tower of bound states of orbital angular momentum $\ensuremath{\ell}=\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}1$ and their binding energies obey a universal doubly exponential scaling ${E}_{3}^{(n)}\ensuremath{\propto}\mathrm{exp}(\ensuremath{-}2{e}^{3\ensuremath{\pi}n/4+\ensuremath{\theta}})$ at large nnn. This ``super Efimov effect'' is found by a renormalization group analysis and confirmed by solving the bound state problem. We also provide an indication that there are $\ensuremath{\ell}=\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}2$ four-body resonances associated with every three-body bound state at ${E}_{4}^{(n)}\ensuremath{\propto}\mathrm{exp}(\ensuremath{-}2{e}^{3\ensuremath{\pi}n/4+\ensuremath{\theta}\ensuremath{-}0.188})$. These universal few-body states may be observed in ultracold atom experiments and should be taken into account in future many-body studies of the system.
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