Quantum corrections to 3-body recombination in a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate
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Abstract
The rate at which the number density $n$ of a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate decreases from 3-body recombination scales like $n^3 a^4$, where $a$ is the scattering length. We calculate the corrections to the rate from quantum fluctuations in the condensate to second order in the diluteness variable $\sqrt{n a^3}$. The second order term depends on Efimov's 3-body parameter.
*This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant PHY-1310862
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