Unitary boson-boson and boson-fermion mixtures: third virial coefficient and three-body parameter on a narrow Feshbach resonance

TL;DR

This paper derives exact integral formulas for the third virial coefficient and three-body parameter in boson-boson and boson-fermion mixtures near a narrow Feshbach resonance, highlighting Efimov physics effects.

Contribution

It provides a new exact integral expression for the three-body parameter Rt in narrow Feshbach resonances, accounting for Efimov effects in quantum gas mixtures.

Findings

Rt diverges at a preefimovian regime with s=1/2

Exact integral expressions for third virial coefficients are obtained

Results are applicable to cold atom experimental species

Abstract

We give exact integral expressions of the third cluster or virial coefficients of binary mixtures of ideal Bose or Fermi gases, with interspecies interactions of zero range and infinite s-wave scattering length. In general the result depends on three-body parameters Rt appearing in three-body contact conditions, because an Efimov effect is present or because the mixture is in a preefimovian regime with a mass ratio close to an Efimov effect threshold. We give a new, exact integral expression of Rt for the microscopic narrow Feshbach resonance model. A divergence of Rt in the preefimovian regime at a scaling exponent s = 1/2 is predicted and physically discussed. The analytical results are applied to typical species used in cold atom experiments.