Chapter 3
Discrete Scaling and Scattering
Properties from Atom-Dimer Collision
Lauro Tomio and M. A. Shalchi
Abstract A recent proposal on a new perspective to detect the Efimov-like discrete
scaling in ultra-cold binary mixtures with strong mass-imbalanced atomic species is
communicated. The discrete scaling can be identified by the energy dependence of an
atom-molecule elastic cross-section, when colliding a heavy atom with mass m
α
into
a weakly-bound heavy-light (m
α
, m
β
) dimer. In the extreme mass-imbalanced system
it was verified that the s -wave elastic cross section presents zeros at several specific
energies of the projectile, in which emerges a discrete behavior from the ratio between
these energies. This discrete behavior is identified with the same one predicted for
the trimer excited bound-states, when considering the same mass-imbalanced system
in the unitary limit.
3.1 Introduction
In this presentation, we are reporting some results obtained in a recent work in which
it was verified that the usual Efimov scaling factor [1], obtained in the spectrum of a
mass-imbalanced three-body system near the unitary limit, can also be well identified
in scattering observables with a mixture of two-species strong mass-imbalanced
atomic system. In order to show that, the scattering solutions for a system with two
heavy and one light particles (ααβ) are obtained by considering the heaviest one
(α) colliding with the dimer formed the other two particles [2]. Here, we restrict the
presentation to some indicative results related to discrete scaling, which are obtained
by using zero-range interactions.
L. Tomio (B ) · M. A. Shalchi
Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT), Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP),
São Paulo, SP 01140-070, Brazil
e-mail: lauro.tomio@unesp.br
L. Tomio
Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia
Aeroespacial (DCTA), São José dos Campos 12228-900, Brazil
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
N. A. Orr et al. (eds.), Recent Progress in Few-Body Physics,
Springer Proceedings in Physics 238,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32357-8_3
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