Published 2017 | Version v1
Journal article

Ground-State Properties of Unitary Bosons: From Clusters to Matter

  • 1. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  • 2. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States). Dept. of Physics
  • 3. University of Paris-Sud, Orsay (France). Institute of Nuclear Physics
  • 4. University of Campinas (Brazil). Institute of Physics Gleb Wataghin

Description

The properties of cold Bose gases at unitarity have been extensively investigated in the last few years both theoretically and experimentally. In this paper we use a family of interactions tuned to two-body unitarity and very weak three-body binding to demonstrate the universal properties of both clusters and matter. We determine the universal properties of finite clusters up to 60 particles and, for the first time, explicitly demonstrate the saturation of energy and density with particle number and compare with bulk properties. At saturation in the bulk we determine the energy, density, two- and three-body contacts, and the condensate fraction. We find that uniform matter is more bound than three-body clusters by nearly 2 orders of magnitude, the two-body contact is very large in absolute terms, and yet the condensate fraction is also very large, greater than 90%. Finally, equilibrium properties of these systems may be experimentally accessible through rapid quenching of weakly interacting boson superfluids.

Availability note (English)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
119
Journal Issue
22
Journal Page Range
vp.
ISSN
0031-9007

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
49057947
Subject category
S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
BOSE-EINSTEIN GAS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; GROUND STATES; INTERACTING BOSON MODEL; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; THREE-BODY PROBLEM
Descriptors DEC
ENERGY LEVELS; MANY-BODY PROBLEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR MODELS; PHYSICS; SHELL MODELS