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Three-body recombination of ultra-cold atoms to a weakly bound level

arXiv:atom-ph/9605009 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.2921

Abstract

We discuss three-body recombination of ultra-cold atoms to a weakly bound level. In this case, characterized by large and positive scattering length for pair interaction, we find a repulsive effective potential for three-body collisions, which strongly reduces the recombination probability and makes simple Jastrow-like approaches absolutely inadequate. In the zero temperature limit we obtain a universal relation, independent of the detailed shape of the interaction potential, for the (event) rate constant of three-body recombination: , where is the atom mass.

10 pages, 3 Postscript figures

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