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REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS
Volume 75, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/75/4/046401
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- NSF [PHY-0855332]
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0855332] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Few-body physics has played a prominent role in atomic, molecular and nuclear physics since the early days of quantum mechanics. It is now possible-thanks to tremendous progress in cooling, trapping and manipulating ultracold samples-to experimentally study few-body phenomena in trapped atomic and molecular systems with unprecedented control. This review summarizes recent studies of few-body phenomena in trapped atomic and molecular gases, with an emphasis on small trapped systems. We start by introducing the free-space scattering properties and then investigate what happens when two particles, bosons or fermions, are placed in an external confinement. Next, various three-body systems are treated analytically in limiting cases. Our current understanding of larger two-component Fermi systems and Bose systems is reviewed, and connections with the corresponding bulk systems are established. Lastly, future prospects and challenges are discussed. Throughout this review, commonalities with other systems such as nuclei or quantum dots are highlighted.
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