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How to observe the Efimov effect

E. Nielsen, D. V. Fedorov, A. S. Jensen

physics.atom-pharXiv:physics/9810040

Abstract

We propose to observe the Efimov effect experimentally by applying an external electric field on atomic three-body systems. We first derive the lowest order effective two-body interaction for two spin zero atoms in the field. Then we solve the three-body problem and search for the extreme spatially extended Efimov states. We use helium trimers as an illustrative numerical example and estimate the necessary field strength to be less than 2.7 V/angstrom.

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