| Issue |
EPL
Volume 83, Number 3, August 2008
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 30012 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/83/30012 | |
| Published online | 29 July 2008 | |
N-body Efimov states of trapped bosons
IFA, Aarhus University - 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark, EU
Corresponding author: fedorov@phys.au.dk
Received:
4
February
2008
Accepted:
17
June
2008
We demonstrate the possibility of existence of meta-stable N-body Efimov states in trapped Bose systems with large scattering length. We calculate spectra of trapped systems of N=3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 bosons using a stochastic variational method with a restricted correlated Gaussian basis. For each system the calculations reveal a series of Efimov states where the energy and the r.m.s. radius exhibit the characteristic exponential dependence upon the state number. We also estimate the contribution of these states to the recombination rate of Bose-Einstein condensates.
PACS: 03.75.Hh – Static properties of condensates; thermodynamical, statistical, and structural properties / 03.75.Nt – Other Bose-Einstein condensation phenomena / 21.45.-v – Few-body systems
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