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Three-body recombination into deep bound states in a Bose gas with large scattering length
1Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
Abstract:
An effective field theory for the three-body system with large two-body scattering length a is applied to three-body recombination into deep bound states in a Bose gas. The recombination constant alpha is calculated to first order in the short-distance interactions that allow the recombination. For a < 0, the dimensionless combination m alpha/(Planck's constant a(4)) is a periodic function of ln (absolute value a) that exhibits resonances at values of a that differ by multiplicative factors of 22.7. This dramatic behavior should be observable near a Feshbach resonance when a becomes large and negative.
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