arXiv · 1612.09341
Five-Body Efimov Effect and Universal Pentamer in Fermionic Mixtures
Abstract
We show that four heavy fermions interacting resonantly with a lighter atom (4+1 system) become Efimovian at mass ratio 13.279(2), which is smaller than the corresponding 2+1 and 3+1 thresholds. We thus predict the five-body Efimov effect for this system in the regime where any of its subsystem is non- Efimovian. For smaller mass ratios we show the existence and calculate the energy of a universal 4+1 pentamer state, which continues the series of the 2+1 trimer predicted by Kartavtsev and Malykh and 3+1 tetramer discovered by Blume. We also show that the effective-range correction for the light-heavy interaction has a strong effect on all these states and larger effective ranges increase their tendency to bind.
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Betzalel Bazak, Dmitry S. Petrov. 2017-02-26. Five-Body Efimov Effect and Universal Pentamer in Fermionic Mixtures. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.118.083002
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