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Physics of Atomic Nuclei

Continuum resonances with shielded Coulomb-like potential and Efimov effect

D. S. Tusnski, Marcelo Takeshi Yamashita, T. Frederico, Lauro Tomio

Published Apr 1, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

Motivated by the possibility of the second energy level (0 2 + ) of 12C (in a three-alpha model) to turn into an Efimov state, we study a simple non-realistic toy model formed by three bosons interacting by the phenomenological s-wave Ali-Bodmer potential plus a Coulomb interaction. An artificial three-body potential was used to create a resonance with energy close to the energy of the 0 2 + of 12C, 0.38 MeV. The strength of the Coulomb potential is decreased until the energies of the two alpha pairs are zero. The system was placed inside a harmonic trap and a stabilization method has been used to calculate the energies of the resonances. We found that the shielded-Coulomb potential, which keeps the long tail, is not able to produce the Efimov effect. The energy of the three alphas decreases only to 0.19 MeV when the two-body energy crosses the threshold to become bound.

DOI
10.1134/s1063778814040152

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Motivated by the possibility of the second energy level (0 2 + ) of 12C (in a three-alpha model) to turn into an Efimov state, we study a simple non-realistic toy model formed by three bosons interacting by the phenomenological s-wave Ali-Bodmer potential plus a Coulomb interaction. An artificial three-body potential was used to create a resonance with energy close to the energy of the 0 2 + of 12C, 0.38 MeV. The strength of the Coulomb potential is decreased until the energies of the two alpha pairs are zero. The system was placed inside a harmonic trap and a stabilization method has been used to calculate the energies of the resonances. We found that the shielded-Coulomb potential, which keeps the long tail, is not able to produce the Efimov effect. The energy of the three alphas decreases only to 0.19 MeV when the two-body energy crosses the threshold to become bound.
Motivated by the possibility of the second energy level (0 + 2 ) of 12 C (in a three-alpha model) to turn into an Efimov state, we study a simple non-realistic toy model formed by three bosons interacting by the phenomenological s-wave Ali-Bodmer potential plus a Coulomb interaction.An artificial three-body potential was used to create a resonance with energy close to the energy of the 0 + 2 of 12 C, 0.38 MeV.The strength of the Coulomb potential is decreased until the energies of the two alpha pairs are zero.The system was placed inside a harmonic trap and a stabilization method has been used to calculate the energies of the resonances.We found that the shielded-Coulomb potential, which keeps the long tail, is not able to produce the Efimov effect.The energy of the three alphas decreases only to 0.19 MeV when the two-body energy crosses the threshold to become bound.
Continuum structures of three short-range interacting particles in a deformed external one-body field are investigated. We use the equivalent ddd method employing noninteger dimension, ddd, in a spherical calculation with a dimension-dependent angular momentum barrier. We focus on dimensions close to the critical dimension, d=dEd={d}_{E}d=dE​, between 2 and 3, defined by zero two-body energies, where the Efimov effect can occur. We design for this dimension region a schematic, long-distance realistic, square-well based, three-body spherical model, which is used to derive analytic expressions for the wave functions, scattering lengths, phase shifts, and elastic-scattering cross sections. The procedure and the results are universal, valid for all short-range potentials, and for large scattering lengths. We discuss the properties and validity of the derived expressions by means of the simplest system of three identical bosons. The derived expressions are particularly useful for very small energies, where full numerical calculations are often not feasible. For energies where the numerical calculations can be performed, a good agreement with the analytic results is found. These model results may be tested by scattering experiments for three particles in an equivalent external deformed oscillator potential. The cross sections all vanish in the zero-energy limit for d<3d<3d<3 with definite ddd-dependent power of energy.
Three-boson Efimov physics is well known in the bound-state regime, but far less in the three-particle continuum at negative two-particle scattering length where Efimov states evolve into resonances. They are studied solving rigorous three-particle scattering equations for transition operators in the momentum space. The dependence of the three-boson resonance energy and width on the two-boson scattering length is studied with several force models. The universal limit is determined numerically considering highly excited states; simple parametrizations for the resonance energy and width in terms of the scattering length are established. Decreasing the attraction, the resonances rise not much above the threshold but broaden rapidly and become physically unobservable, evolving into subthreshold resonances. Finite-range effects are studied and related to those in the bound-state regime.
A quantum-mechanical description is presented for the three-body physics of shielded dipolar molecules, including a prediction of observable Efimov physics. Despite the anisotropic and long-range nature of the interaction, shielding enables a regime in which universality emerges already at the two-body level and extends to the three-body sector, where Efimov physics emerges. On the negative side of the scattering-length resonance, computed trimer binding energies display the characteristic scaling expected for Efimov resonances. Finally, the sudden approximation can be used to create trimer bound states, starting from positive energy trap states as a way to create or detect these molecular trimers. Moreover, the three-body parameter expressed in dipolar units is found to be universal.
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We have investigated three identical bosons with very large pairwise scattering lengths. Normally such a situation is associated with Efimov states, where the three-body system has a set of very loosely bound states close to the three-body threshold. In the limit of infinite scattering length, the three-body system has infinitely many bound states. If, however, the two-body subsystems have deep lying two-body bound states, the Efimov states lie over the corresponding thresholds for breakup. We have calculated the positions and widths of these Feshbach resonances for some simple potentials numerically and have extracted the systematics. We explore the possibility of observing such Efimov resonances in atom-diatom scattering experiments with alkali atoms.