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Observation of the Efimov state of the helium trimer

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In this article, the authors reported experimental observation of this long predicted but experimentally elusive Efimov state by means of Coulomb explosion imaging, confirming the predicted size and a typical structure where two atoms are close to each other while the third is far away.
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Quantum theory dictates that upon weakening the two-body interaction in a three-body system, an infinite number of three-body bound states of a huge spatial extent emerge just before these three-body states become unbound. Three helium atoms have been predicted to form a molecular system that manifests this peculiarity under natural conditions without artificial tuning of the attraction between particles by an external field. Here we report experimental observation of this long predicted but experimentally elusive Efimov state of $^{4}$He$_{3}$ by means of Coulomb explosion imaging. We show spatial images of an Efimov state, confirming the predicted size and a typical structure where two atoms are close to each other while the third is far away.

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Efimov Physics: a review

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review theoretical and experimental advances in Efimov physics, an array of quantum few-body and many-body phenomena arising for particles interacting via short-range resonant interactions, that is based on the appearance of a scale-invariant three-body attraction theoretically discovered by VitalyEfimov in 1970.
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Observation of the Efimovian expansion in scale-invariant Fermi gases

TL;DR: The theoretical prediction and experimental observation of a distinct type of expansion dynamics for scale-invariant quantum gases is reported, which shares the same scaling law and mathematical description as the Efimov effect.
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Four-Body Scale in Universal Few-Boson Systems.

TL;DR: It is found that at next-to-leading order (NLO) a four-body force is needed to obtain renormalized results for binding energies, and with the associated parameter fixed to the binding energy of the four-boson system, this force is shown to renormalize the five- and six-body systems as well.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the existence of a series of levels in three-particle systems has been investigated and it has been shown that the number of such levels may be very large.
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Universality in few-body systems with large scattering length

TL;DR: In this paper, a thorough treatment of universality for the system of three identical bosons is presented, and the universal information that is currently available for other 3-body systems is summarized.
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Evidence for efimov quantum states in an ultracold gas of caesium atoms

TL;DR: In this article, the Efimov trimer state was shown to exist in an ultracold gas of caesium atoms and its signature was observed as a giant three-body recombination loss when the strength of the two-body interaction is varied.
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CXII. On the analysis of τ-meson data and the nature of the τ-meson

TL;DR: In this paper, the relation between the spin and parity of the τ-meson and the distribution of decay configurations is obtained for some simple cases, where the unlike outgoing meson is not distinguished.