Two- and three-body contacts in the unitary Bose gas

DOI10.1126/SCIENCE.AAI8195zbMATH Open1404.81271arXiv1608.04377OpenAlexW3103660009WikidataQ59459122 ScholiaQ59459122MaRDI QIDQ4645950FDOQ4645950

Authors: Richard J. Fletcher, Raphael Lopes, Jay Man, Nir Navon, Robert P. Smith, Martin W. Zwierlein, Zoran Hadzibabic 

Publication date: 11 January 2019

Published in: Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In many-body systems governed by pairwise contact interactions, a wide range of observables is linked by a single parameter, the two-body contact, which quantifies two-particle correlations. This profound insight has transformed our understanding of strongly interacting Fermi gases. Here, using Ramsey interferometry, we study coherent evolution of the resonantly interacting Bose gas, and show that it cannot be explained by only pairwise correlations. Our experiments reveal the crucial role of three-body correlations arising from Efimov physics, and provide a direct measurement of the associated three-body contact.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.04377

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Statistical mechanics of gases (82D05) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10) (n)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U10)

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