New Calculations of Recombination Rates for Cold 4He Atoms and Determination of Universal Scaling Functions
J. R. Shepard
Abstract
Three-body recombination rates for cold 4He are calculated with a new method which exploits the simple relationship between the imaginary part of the atom-dimer elastic scattering phase shift and the S-matrix for recombination. The elastic phase shifts are computed above breakup threshold by solving a three-body Faddeev equation in momentum space with inputs based on a variety of modern atom-atom potentials. Recombination coefficients for the HFD-B3-FCII potential agree very well with the only previously published results. Since the elastic scattering and recombination processes for 4He are governed by "Efimov physics", they depend on universal functions of a scaling variable. The newly computed recombination coefficients for potentials other than HFD-B3-FCII make it possible to determine these universal functions for the first time.
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