Dynamical interplay of few-body correlations in a thermal unitary Bose gas

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Abstract

We study the growth of few-body correlations in an ultracold Bose gas quenched to unitarity. This is encoded in the dynamics of the two- and three-body contacts. By connecting many-body correlations dynamics with few-body models\footnote{V. E. Colussi, J. P. Corson, and J. P. D'Incao, PRL 120 (10), 100401 (2018)}, we map out signatures of the Efimov effect. For the thermal resonantly interacting Bose gas where the contact dynamics have been measured experimentally\footnote{R. J. Fletcher, R. Lopes, J. Man, N. Navon, R. P. Smith, M. W. Zwierlein, and Z. Hadzibabic, Science 355, 377 (2017)}, we find that atom-bunching leads to an enhanced growth of few-body correlations. These atom-bunching effects also highlight the interplay between few-body correlations that occurs before genuine many-body effects enter on Fermi timescales.

*NWO Grant 680-47-623, NSF Grant PHY-1607204, and NASA

Authors

  • Victor Colussi

    • Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Bjorn van Zwol

    • Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Jose D'Incao

    • JILA, NIST and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Servaas Kokkelmans

    • Eindhoven University of Technology