Scaling functions applied to three-body recombination of Cs-133 atoms
Journal article, 2008

We demonstrate the implications of Efimov physics in the recently measured recombination rate of Cs-133 atoms. By employing previously calculated results for the energy dependence of the recombination rate of He-4 atoms, we obtain three independent scaling functions that are capable of describing the recombination rates over a large energy range for identical bosons with large scattering length. We benchmark these and previously obtained scaling functions by successfully comparing their predictions with full atom-dimer phase shift calculations with artificial He-4 potentials yielding large scattering lengths. Exploiting universality, we finally use these functions to determine the three-body recombination rate of Cs-133 atoms with large positive scattering length, compare our results to experimental data obtained by Kraemer at Innsbruck and find excellent agreement.

scattering

states

association

atom-atom reactions

caesium

system

Author

J. R. Shepard

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

24699926 (ISSN) 24699934 (eISSN)

Vol. 78 6

Subject Categories

Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics

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10/10/2017