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Two- and three-body contacts in the unitary Bose gas

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Peer-reviewed

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Authors

Fletcher, RJ 
Lopes, R 
Man, J 
Navon, N 
Smith, RP 

Abstract

In many-body systems governed by pairwise contact interactions, a wide range of observables is linked by a single parameter, the two-body contact, which quantifies two-particle correlations. This profound insight has transformed our understanding of strongly interacting Fermi gases. Using Ramsey interferometry, we studied coherent evolution of the resonantly interacting Bose gas, and we show here that it cannot be explained by only pairwise correlations. Our experiments reveal the crucial role of three-body correlations arising from Efimov physics and provide a direct measurement of the associated three-body contact.

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cond-mat.quant-gas, cond-mat.quant-gas

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Science

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Journal ISSN

0036-8075
1095-9203

Volume Title

355

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science
Sponsorship
European Research Council (682285)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/N011759/1)
European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD) (W911NF-15-1-0444)
European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) Marie Sk?odowska-Curie actions (704832)
The Royal Society (uf110236)
Royal Society (RG120365)
EPSRC (1102563)
This work was supported by EPSRC [Grant No. EP/N011759/1], ERC (QBox), ARO and AFOSR. N.N. ac- knowledges support from Trinity College, Cambridge, R.P.S. from the Royal Society and R.L. from the E.U. Marie-Curie program [Grant No. MSCA-IF-2015 704832].
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