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SCIENCE
Volume 326, Issue 5960, Pages 1683-1686Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1182840
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- NSF, Office of Naval Research
- Keck Foundation
- Welch Foundation [C-1133]
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Under certain circumstances, three or more interacting particles may form bound states. Although the general few-body problem is not analytically solvable, the so-called Efimov trimers appear for a system of three particles with resonant two-body interactions. The binding energies of these trimers are predicted to be universally connected to each other, independent of the microscopic details of the interaction. By exploiting a Feshbach resonance to widely tune the interactions between trapped ultracold lithium atoms, we find evidence for two universally connected Efimov trimers and their associated four-body bound states. A total of 11 precisely determined three- and four-body features are found in the inelastic-loss spectrum. Their relative locations on either side of the resonance agree well with universal theory, whereas a systematic deviation from universality is found when comparing features across the resonance.
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