Universality in few-body systems with large scattering length

E Braaten, HW Hammer - Physics Reports, 2006 - Elsevier
Particles with short-range interactions and a large scattering length have universal low-
energy properties that do not depend on the details of their structure or their interactions at …

Structure and reactions of quantum halos

AS Jensen, K Riisager, DV Fedorov, E Garrido - Reviews of modern physics, 2004 - APS
This article provides an overview of the basic principles of the physics of quantum halo
systems, defined as bound states of clusters of particles with a radius extending well into …

The three-body problem with short-range interactions

E Nielsen, DV Fedorov, AS Jensen, E Garrido - Physics Reports, 2001 - Elsevier
The quantum mechanical three-body problem is studied for general short-range interactions.
We work in coordinate space to facilitate accurate computations of weakly bound and …

Universal aspects of light halo nuclei

T Frederico, A Delfino, L Tomio… - Progress in Particle and …, 2012 - Elsevier
The theoretical status on universal aspects of weakly-bound neutron-rich light nuclei are
reviewed, considering few-body approaches. We focus the review on the low-energy …

Efimov states in nuclear and particle physics

HW Hammer, L Platter - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Particles with resonant short-range interactions have universal properties that do not
depend on the details of their structure or their interactions at short distances. In the three …

Universal properties and structure of halo nuclei

DL Canham, HW Hammer - The European Physical Journal A, 2008 - Springer
The universal properties and structure of halo nuclei composed of two neutrons (2 n) and a
core are investigated within an effective quantum mechanics framework. We construct an …

Perturbative renormalization in quantum few-body problems

SK Adhikari, T Frederico, ID Goldman - Physical review letters, 1995 - APS
As in quantum field theory, for some singular two-body potentials, the momentum-space
perturbative treatment of the three-dimensional quantum N-body problem is shown to exhibit …

Scaling properties of universal tetramers

MR Hadizadeh, MT Yamashita, L Tomio, A Delfino… - Physical Review Letters, 2011 - APS
We evidence the existence of a universal correlation between the binding energies of
successive four-boson bound states (tetramers), for large two-body scattering lengths (a) …

Comparing and contrasting nuclei and cold atomic gases

NT Zinner, AS Jensen - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The experimental revolution in ultracold atomic gas physics over the past decades has
brought tremendous amounts of new insight to the world of degenerate quantum systems …

Universal aspects of Efimov states and light halo nuclei

AEA Amorim, T Frederico, L Tomio - Physical Review C, 1997 - APS
The parametric region in the plane defined by the ratios of the energies of the subsystems
and the three-body ground state, in which Efimov states can exist, is determined. We use a …