Semisuper Efimov Effect of Two-Dimensional Bosons at a Three-Body Resonance
Yusuke Nishida
Wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics allows for a halo bound state whose spatial extension far exceeds a range of the interaction potential. What is even more striking is that such quantum halos can be arbitrarily large on special occasions. The two examples known so far are the Efimov effect and the super Efimov effect, which predict that spatial extensions of higher excited states grow exponentially and double exponentially, respectively. Here, we establish yet another new class of arbitrarily large quantum halos formed by spinless bosons with short-range interactions in two dimensions. When the two-body interaction is absent but the three-body interaction is resonant, four bosons exhibit an infinite tower of bound states whose spatial extensions scale as R_{n}∼e^{(πn)^{2}/27} for a large n. The emergent scaling law is universal and is termed a semisuper Efimov effect, which together with the Efimov and super Efimov effects constitutes a trio of few-body universality classes allowing for arbitrarily large quantum halos.
arXiv:1702.07532•Physical Review Letters•Jun 8, 2017•24 citations