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Multi three-body bound states in one dimensional Bose gases

Yanxia Liu, Yi-Cong Yu, Shu Chen

Published Apr 29, 2021• 0 citations
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Abstract

We investigate one-dimensional three-body systems composed of two identical bosons and one imbalanced atom (impurity) with two-body and three-body zero-range interactions. For the case in the absence of three-body interaction, we give a complete phase diagram of the number of three-body bound states in the whole region of mass ratio via the direct calculation of the Skornyakov-Ter-Martirosyan equations. We demonstrate that other low-lying three-body bound states emerge when the mass of the impurity particle is not equal to another two identical particles. We can obtain not only the binding energies but also the corresponding wave functions. When the mass of impurity atom is vary large, there are at most three three-body bound states. We then study the effect of three-body zero-range interaction and unveil that it can induces one more three-body bound state at a certain region of coupling strength ratio under a fixed mass ratio.

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We investigate one-dimensional three-body systems composed of two identical bosons and one mass-imbalanced atom (impurity) with attractive two-body and three-body zero-range interactions. In the absence of three-body interaction, we give a complete phase diagram of the number of three-body bound states in the whole region of mass ratio and the ratio of intra- and intercomponent interaction strength via direct calculation of Skornyakov-Ter-Martirosyan equations. We demonstrate that other low-lying three-body bound states emerge when the mass of the impurity particle is different from other two identical particles. We obtain the binding energies together with the corresponding wave functions. When the mass of impurity atom is very large, there are at most three three-body bound states. In the presence of three-body zero-range interaction, we reveal that weak three-body interaction will not always induce one more three-body bound state. At some special parameter points, arbitrary small three-body interaction can generate one more three-body bound state. This corresponds to the transition of the number of three-body bound states induced only by two-body attractive interaction.
Abstract We study the Hamiltonian for a system of N identical bosons interacting with an impurity, i.e., a different particle, via zero-range forces in dimension three. It is well known that, following the standard approach, one obtains the Ter-Martirosyan Skornyakov Hamiltonian which is unbounded from below. In order to avoid such instability problem, we introduce a three-body force acting at short distances. The effect of this force is to reduce to zero the strength of the zero-range interaction between two particles, i.e., the impurity and a boson, when another boson approaches the common position of the first two particles. We show that the Hamiltonian defined with such regularized interaction is self-adjoint and bounded from below if the strength of the three-body force is sufficiently large. The method of the proof is based on a careful analysis of the corresponding quadratic form.
The momentum space zero-range model is used to investigate universal properties of three interacting particles confined to two dimensions. The pertinent equations are first formulated for a system of two identical and one distinct particle and the two different two-body subsystems are characterized by two-body energies and masses. The three-body energy in units of one of the two-body energies is a universal function of the other two-body energy and the mass ratio. We derive convenient analytical formulae for calculations of the three-body energy as a function of these two independent parameters and exhibit the results as universal curves. In particular, we show that the three-body system can have any number of stable bound states. When the mass ratio of the distinct to identical particles is greater than 0.22, we find that at most two stable bound states exist, while for two heavy and one light mass an increasing number of bound states is possible. The specific number of stable bound states depends on the ratio of two-body bound state energies and on the mass ratio, and we map out an energy–mass phase diagram of the number of stable bound states. Realizable systems of both fermions and bosons are discussed in this framework.
We show the existence of Borromean bound states in a one-dimensional quantum three-body system composed of two identical bosons and a distinguishable particle. It is assumed that there is no interaction between the two bosons, while the mass-imbalanced two-body subsystems can be tuned to be either bound or unbound. Within the framework of the Faddeev equations, the three-body spectrum and the corresponding wave functions are computed numerically. In addition, we identify the parameter-space region for the two-body interaction, where the Borromean states occur, evaluate their geometric properties, and investigate their dependence on the mass ratio.
The universal three-body dynamics in ultracold binary gases confined to one-dimensional motion is studied. The three-body binding energies and the (2 + 1)-scattering lengths are calculated for two identical particles of mass m and a different particle of mass m 1, whose interaction is described in the low-energy limit by zero-range potentials. The critical values of the mass ratio m/m 1 at which three-body states occur and the (2 + 1)-scattering length vanishes are determined for both zero and infinite interaction strength λ1 of the identical particles. A number of exact results are listed and asymptotic dependences for both m/m 1 → ∞ and λ1 → −∞ are derived. Combining the numerical and analytic results, we deduce a schematic diagram showing the number of three-body bound states and the sign of the (2 + 1)-scattering length in the plane of the mass ratio and the interaction-strength ratio. The results provide a description of the homogeneous and mixed phases of atoms and molecules in dilute binary quantum gases.
The universal three-body dynamics in ultra-cold binary Fermi and Fermi–Bose mixtures is studied. Two identical fermions of mass m and a particle of mass m 1 with the zero-range two-body interaction in states of total angular momentum L = 1 are considered. Using the boundary condition model for the s -wave interaction of different particles, both eigenvalue and scattering problems are treated by solving hyper-radial equations, whose terms are derived analytically. The dependences of the three-body binding energies on the mass-ratio m / m 1 for the positive two-body scattering length are calculated; it is shown that the ground and excited states arise at m / m 1 ⩾ λ 1 ≈ 8.172 60 and m / m 1 ⩾ λ 2 ≈ 12.917 43, respectively. For m / m 1 ≲ λ 1 and m / m 1 ≲ λ 2 , the relevant bound states turn to narrow resonances, whose positions and widths are calculated. The 2 + 1 elastic scattering and the three-body recombination near the three-body threshold are studied, and it is shown that a two-hump structure in the mass-ratio dependences of the cross sections is connected with the rise of the bound states.