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Confinement-induced unatomic trimer states in mass-imbalanced systems

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Author(s):
Francisco, R. M. ; Rosa, D. S. ; Frederico, T. ; Krein, G. ; Yamashita, M. T.
Total Authors: 5
Document type: Journal article
Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW A; v. 112, n. 3, p. 13-pg., 2025-09-15.
Abstract

As resonantly interacting trimers of the type AAB are progressively squeezed from D = 3 to D = 2, unatomic states emerge. We calculated the contacts from the high-momentum tail of the single-particle densities. The sharp increase in the contacts serves as a signature of the transition between the Efimov and unatomic regimes, characterized by the emergence of continuous scale invariance when the system reaches a critical dimension Dc. This continuous scale invariance starts to dominate the behavior of the system at the dimension D < Dc, below which the trimers' momentum-distribution tails exhibit a power-law behavior signaling the unatomic regime. To illustrate our findings, we studied compounds with the forms 7Li-23Na2, 7Li-87Rb2, and 7Li-133Cs2. The increase in the trimers' mass imbalance reduces the interval between Dc and D. The emergence of unatomic states can be experimentally verified by observing the two-body contact parameter, which is a quantity directly related to the thermodynamic properties of the gas. (AU)

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