Mass Ratio Dependence of Three-Body Resonance Lifetimes in 1D and 3D

• Published in: Few-body systems Vol. 65; no. 2; p. 38
• Main Authors: Happ, Lucas, Naidon, Pascal, Hiyama, Emiko
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna Springer Vienna 09.04.2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Approximation; Atomic; Atomic properties; Atoms & subatomic particles; Cesium; Few-body systems; First principles; Hadrons; Heavy Ions; Lithium; Mass ratios; Mixtures; Molecular; Nuclear Physics; Optical and Plasma Physics; Particle and Nuclear Physics; Particle decay; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Ratios; Resonance; Ultracold atoms
• ISSN: 1432-5411; 0177-7963; 1432-5411
• DOI: 10.1007/s00601-024-01900-w

We present a theoretical study of resonance lifetimes in a two-component three-body system, specifically examining the decay of three-body resonances into a deep dimer and an unbound particle. Utilising the Gaussian expansion method together with the complex scaling method, we obtain the widths of these resonances from first principles. We focus on mass ratios in the typical range for mixtures of ultracold atoms and reveal an intriguing dependence of the resonance widths on the mass ratio: as the mass ratio increases, the widths exhibit oscillations on top of an overall decreasing trend. In particular, for some mass ratios the resonance width vanishes, implying that the resonance becomes in fact stable. Notably, near the mass ratio for Caesium–Lithium mixtures, we obtain nearly vanishing widths of the resonances which validates to treat them in the bound-state approximation. In addition, we perform our analysis of the resonance widths in both one and three dimensions and find a qualitatively similar dependence on the mass ratio.