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Semi-Classical Methods and N-Body Recombination
Seth RittenhouseITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138
Efimov States in Molecules and Nuclei, Oct. 21st 2009
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Hard Problems with Simple Solutions
Seth Rittenhouse ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138
Efimov States in Molecules and Nuclei, Oct. 21st 2009
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WKB is Smarter than You Think
Seth Rittenhouse ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138
Efimov States in Molecules and Nuclei, Oct. 21st 2009
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Jose P. D’IncaoNirav Mehta Javier von Stecher
Chris H. Greene
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Review of Recombination Experiments
2006: First solid evidence of an Efimov State was seen in Innsbruck
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Since then, several other groups have seen Efimov states
Ottenstein et.al., PRL. 101, 203202 (2008)
Huckans et. al., PRL 102, 165302 (2009)
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Since then, several other groups have seen Efimov states
Ultra cold Li7 gas: Rice group (soon to be published)
Zaccanti et. al., Nature Phys. 5, 586 (2009).
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More recently: Four body effects have been observed!
Ferlaino et. al., PRL 102, 140401 (2009)
Rice group
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Hyperspherical Coordinates: the first step for easy few body scattering.
General idea: treat thehyperradius adiabatically(think Born-Oppenheimer).
Provides us with a convenient view of the energy landscape
~ R
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For example,The energy landscape 3 Bodies 2-D
Hyperspherical Coordinates: the first step for easy few body scattering.
General idea: treat thehyperradius adiabatically(think Born-Oppenheimer).
Provides us with a convenient view of the energy landscape
~ R
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When the hyperradius is much different from all other
length scales, the adiabatic potentials become universal, e.g.
which is the non-interacting behavior at fixed hyperradius.
The potentials for other length scale disparities look very
similar, but with non-integer valued or complex.
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Relevant examples of potential curves
Three bosons with negative scattering length:
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Three bosons with negative scattering length:
Repulsive universal long-range tail
Attractive inner region
Transition regionHere be dragons!
Relevant examples of potential curves
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Four bosons with negative scattering length:
Relevant examples of potential curves
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Four bosons with negative scattering length:
Repulsive four-body potentials
Efimov trimer threshold
Attractive inner wells
Broad avoided crossing
Relevant examples of potential curves
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Sometimes things can get ugly, so be careful!
Not-so relevant examples of potential curves:a cautionary tale
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Let’s get quantitativeOnce hyperradial potentials have been found, it might be nice to have scattering crossections and rate constants.
Three-body:
Esry et. al., PRL 83, 1751 (1999); Fedichev et. al., PRL 77, 2921 (1996); Nielsen and Macek, PRL, 83 1566 (1999); Bedaque et. al., PRL 85, 908 (2000);Braaten and Hammer, PRL 87 160407 (2001) and Phys. Rep. 428,259 (2006);Suno et. al., PRL 90, 053202 (2003).
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Through some hyperspherical magic this can be generalized to the N-body cross section and rate
Mehta, et. al., PRL 103, 153201 (2009)
This is messy, but there already is some good physics buried in here.
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At very low incident energies, only a single incident channel survives. Using the unitary nature of the S-matrix, this simplifies things quite a bit
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At very low incident energies, only a single incident channel survives. Using the unitary nature of the S-matrix, this simplifies things quite a bit
If know about scattering in the initial channel, then we know everything about the N-body losses!!!
This only depends on the incident channel!
Still a fairly nasty multi-channel problem, how can we solve this?
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Specify a little bit more, consider N-bosons with a negative two body scattering with at least one weakly bound N-1 body state.
The lowest N-body channel will have a very generic form:
WKB to the rescue
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Approximate the incident channel S-matrix element using WKB phase shift with an imaginary component.
= WKB phase inside the well
= WKB tunneling
= Imaginary phase (parameterizes losses)
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Putting this all together gives the recombination rate constant
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Putting this all together gives the recombination rate constant
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Some things to note:
This only holds when the coupling to deep channels is with the scattering length.
If coupling exists at large R, we must go back to the S-matrix, or find another cleaver way to describe losses.
This assumes the S matrix element is completely controlled by the behavior of the incoming channel. If outgoing channel is important, as in recombination to weakly bound dimers, a more sophisticated approximation of the S-matrix is needed.
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Re-examine three bosonsAssume that all of the tunneling occurs in the universal large R region, and that all phase accumulation occurs in the universal inner region.
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Re-examine three bosonsAssume that all of the tunneling occurs in the universal large R region, and that all phase accumulation occurs in the universal inner region.
This gives a recombination rate constant of
In agreement with known results
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A little discussion of four-boson potentials[Von Stecher et. al., Nature Phys. 5, pg 417]
Look at potentials in this region. Negative scattering length with at least one bound Efimov state.
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Just after first Efimov state becomes bound
Two four body bound states are attached to each Efimov threshold..(Hammer and Platter, Euro. Phys. J. A 32, 113;von Stecher, D’Incao and Greene Nature Phys. 5, 417).
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Slightly larger scattering length
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Attractive region becomes deep enough to admit a four-body state
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Second Efimov state becomes bound. Two four-body states can be supported for each Efimov state.
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Applying the WKB Recombination formula
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Applying the WKB Recombination formula
4-body resonances
Second Efimov state becomes bound.(Cusp?)
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Can 4-body effects actually be seen?
Surprisingly, yes.
Measurable four-body recombination occurs to deeply bound dimer states:(No weakly bound trimers)
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More recently: Four body recombination to Efimov Trimers has been measured.
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N>4
Without potentials we can’t say too much, but recent work has shown where we could expect resonances.
Can 5 or more body physics be seen,
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Can 5 or more body physics be seen?
Without strong resonances, back of the envelope approximation says, probably not.
N = 4
N = 5
N = 6
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Summary• N-body recombination becomes intuitive
when put into the adiabatic hyperspherical formalism
• Getting the potentials is hard, but even without them, scaling behavior can be extracted.
• Low energy recombination can be described by the scattering behavior in a single channel.
• WKB does surprisingly well in describing the single channel S-matrix
• Four body recombination can actually be measured in some regimes.
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In 1970 a freshly-minted Russian PhD in theoretical nuclear physics, Vitaly Efimov, considered the following natural question:
What is the nature of the bound state energy level spectrum for a 3 particle system, when each of its 2-particle subsystems have no bound states but are infinitesimally close to binding?
Efimov’s prediction: There will be an INFINITE number of 3-body bound states!!
constant. universal a is ...00624.1 where, 0/2
10
seEE snn
This exponential factor = 1/22.72=0.00194, i.e. if one bound state is found at E0= -1 in some system of units, then the next level will be found at E1= -0.00194, and E2= -3.8 x 10-6, etc… .
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The Efimov effect (restated) [Nucl. Phys. A. (1973)]
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Qualitative and quantitative understanding of Efimov’s result
At a qualitative level, it can be understood in hindsight, because two particles that are already attracting each other and are infinitesimally close to binding, just need a whiff of additional attraction from a third particle in order to push them over that threshold to become a bound three-body system.
Quantitatively, Efimov (and later others) showed that a simple wavefunction can be written down at each hyperradius.
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Transition region Universal regionUniversal regionShort range
stuff
Lowest adiabatic hyperradial channel a<0
for identical bosons
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K.E.
a < 0
Observing the Efimov effect: three-body recombination
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K.E.
a < 0
Observing the Efimov effect: three-body recombination
•Three-body recombination can be measured through trap losses.
•Shape resonance occurs when an Efimov state appears at 0 energy.
•Spacing of shape resonances is geometric in the scattering length.
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•Only one resonance, need two to show Efimov scaling
•Second resonance at
•Need low temperatures:
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Other possible Efimov states
•He trimer
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Other possible Efimov states
•Recently, three hyperfine states of 6Li
Ottenstein et.al., PRL. 101, 203202 (2008) Huckans et. al., arXiv:0810.3288 (2008)
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Real two-body interaction are multi-channel in nature.
Simplest thing: Zero-range model
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How does this translate to three bodies?
Start by looking at a simplified model: no coupling.
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Make excited bound state resonant with second threshold
Coupled
Coupled
Uncoupled
Parameters for an excited threshold resonance
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Full calculation looks a bit ugly.First 300 potentials
[PRA, 78 020701 (2008)]
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Simplified picture:
Cartoon of two important curves.
Efimov Diabat
Three free particles
Actually an avoided crossing
Efimov states
•Super-critical 1/R2 potential leads to geometrically spaced states.
•Coupling leads to quasi-stability: Three-body Fano-Feshbach Resonances
•With no long-range coupling, widths scale geometrically
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K.E.
K.E.
Three particles come together at low energy with respect to the first threshold.Excite the system with RF photons.If photon energy is degenerate with Efimov state energy, expect strong coupling to lower channels.Photon and binding energies are released as kinetic energy
The Experiment
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Cartoon three body loss spectrum.
1st state2nd statemany states
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Four Bosons and Efimov’s legacy
Figure from von Stecher et. al., eprint axiv/0810.3876
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A little review of von Stecher’s work on four-boson potentialseprint axiv/0810.3876
Look at potentials in this region. Negative scattering length with at least one bound Efimov state.
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Just after first Efimov state becomes bound
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Slightly larger scattering length
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Attractive region becomes deep enough to admit a four-body state
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Second Efimov state becomes bound. Two four-body states can be supported for each Efimov state.
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Simplest way to see four-body physics is through four-body recombination.
N-body recombination rate coefficient, in terms of the T matrix, is given by:
For four bosons in the low energy regime this reduces to
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The behavior T matrix element is dominated by the lowest four-body channel.
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If a four-body state is present, a shape resonance occurs.
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Using a simple WKB wavefunction gives the four-body recombination rate coefficient up to an overall factor.
a7 scaling (predicted by asymptotic scaling potential)
4-body resonances
Second Efimov state becomes bound
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Four-body behavior scales with the three-body Efimov parameter. We can expect Log periodic behavior!
Position of four-body resonances is universal:
Observation of four-body resonances can give another handle on identifying Efimov states
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Summary• 3-bodies and Efimov Physics: PRA 78, 020701
(2008)– Zero-range multichannel interactions predict an Efimov potential
at an excited three-body threshold.– Coupling to lower channels gives bound states coupled to the
three-body continuum: 3-body Fano-Feshbach resonances!– Quasi-stable Efimov states may, possibly, be accessed via RF
spectroscopy allowing for the observation of multiple resonances.
• 4-bosons – 4-body recombination shows universal resonance behavior.– Postitions of 4-body resonances give a further handle on idetifying
an Efimov state.
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Four-Fermions
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Jacobi and “Democratic” Hyperspherical Coordinates
“H” - type1
2
3
4Body-fixed “democratic” coodinates (Aquilantii/Cavalli and Kuppermann):
Parameterize moments Inertia with R, 1 and 2:
21Rotate Jacobi vectorsInto body-fixed frame:
3Parameterize body-fixed Vectors with three-moreangles:
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Variational basis for four particles: (Assume L=0)
Note: There is no (shallow) three-body bound state for (up-up-down) fermions .
Dimer+Dimer:
Dimer+Three-body continuum:
Four-Body continuum:
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After just a few thousand cpu hours:Potentials!
With potentials, we can start looking at scattering
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Dimer-dimer scattering length
add (0)= 0.6 aPetrov, PRL (2004)
With effective range:von Stecher, PRA (2008)
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Energy dependence means any finite collision energy leads to deviation from the zero energy results
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What about dimer relaxation?
or
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Unfortunately, there are an infinite number of final states!
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Fermi’s golden rule leads to a simple expression for the rate:
is the WKB tunneling probability
is the WKB wave number
is the density of final states near R
is probability that three particles are close together at hyerradius R.
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By performing the integral over different hyperradial regions, we can isolate different types of process.
Integration over only very small hyperradii isolates relaxation channels where all four particles are involved.
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Four-body processes
Three-body processes influenced by presence of fourth particle
Three-body only processes
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Petrov (2004)
Small R contribution
Intermediate scaling behavior[arXiv:0806.3062]