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Two- and three-body contacts in the unitary Bose gas

Abstract:
In many-body systems governed by pairwise contact interactions, a wide range of observables is linked by a single parameter, the two-body contact, which quantifies two-particle correlations. This profound insight has transformed our understanding of strongly interacting Fermi gases. Using Ramsey interferometry, we studied coherent evolution of the resonantly interacting Bose gas, and we show here that it cannot be explained by only pairwise correlations. Our experiments reveal the crucial role of three-body correlations arising from Efimov physics and provide a direct measurement of the associated three-body contact.
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10.1126/science.aai8195

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0000-0003-3877-8478
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS Division
Department:
Physics; Atomic & Laser Physics
Oxford college:
Worcester College
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Author
ORCID:
0000-0002-6881-5690


Publisher:
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Journal:
Science More from this journal
Volume:
355
Issue:
6323
Pages:
377-380
Publication date:
2017-01-27
Acceptance date:
2016-12-22
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EISSN:
1095-9203
ISSN:
0036-8075
Pmid:
28126813


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English
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pubs:856949
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uuid:d7afa57e-84fd-4eea-b43f-b7a6561746bf
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pubs:856949
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856949
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2018-06-19

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