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Universal clusters as building blocks of stable quantum matter

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Endo, S 
García-García, AM 
Naidon, P 

Abstract

We present an exploratory study that suggests that Efimov physics, a leading research theme in few-body quantum physics, can also induce stable many-body ground states whose building blocks are universal clusters. We identify a range of parameters in a mass-and-density imbalanced two-species fermionic mixture for which the ground state is a gas of Efimov-related universal trimers. An explicit calculation of the trimer-trimer interaction reveals that the trimer phase is an SU(3) Fermi liquid stable against recombination losses. We propose to experimentally observe this phase in a fermionic 6Li-53Cr mixture.

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Keywords

cond-mat.quant-gas, cond-mat.quant-gas, hep-th, quant-ph

Journal Title

Physical Review A

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Journal ISSN

2469-9926
2469-9934

Volume Title

93

Publisher

American Physical Society (APS)
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/I004637/1)
EPSRC (Grant ID: EP/I004637/1)
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