Universal few-body physics and cluster formation

CH Greene, P Giannakeas, J Pérez-Ríos - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
A recent rejuvenation of experimental and theoretical interest in the physics of few-body
systems has provided deep, fundamental insights into a broad range of problems. Few-body …

Colloquium: Three-body forces: From cold atoms to nuclei

HW Hammer, A Nogga, A Schwenk - Reviews of modern physics, 2013 - APS
It is often assumed that few-and many-body systems can be accurately described by
considering only pairwise two-body interactions of the constituents. We illustrate that three …

Effective field theory description of halo nuclei

HW Hammer, C Ji, DR Phillips - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Nuclear halos emerge as new degrees of freedom near the neutron and proton driplines.
They consist of a core and one or a few nucleons which spend most of their time in the …

Nuclear physics around the unitarity limit

S König, HW Grießhammer, HW Hammer, U van Kolck - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
We argue that many features of the structure of nuclei emerge from a strictly perturbative
expansion around the unitarity limit, where the two-nucleon S waves have bound states at …

Few-body physics in resonantly interacting ultracold quantum gases

JP D'Incao - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We provide a general discussion on the importance of three-body Efimov physics for
strongly interacting ultracold quantum gases. Using the adiabatic hyperspherical …

Efimov physics and connections to nuclear physics

A Kievsky, M Gattobigio, L Girlanda… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Physical systems characterized by a shallow two-body bound or virtual state are governed at
large distances by continuous scale invariance, which is broken into discrete scale …

Four-body scale in universal few-boson systems

B Bazak, J Kirscher, S König, MP Valderrama… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
The role of an intrinsic four-body scale in universal few-boson systems is the subject of
active debate. We study these systems within the framework of effective field theory. For …

Correlations imposed by the unitary limit between few-nucleon systems, nuclear matter, and neutron stars

A Kievsky, M Viviani, D Logoteta, I Bombaci… - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
The large values of the singlet and triplet two-nucleon scattering lengths locate the nuclear
system close to the unitary limit. This particular position strongly constrains the low-energy …

Naturalness in nuclear effective field theories

U van Kolck - The European Physical Journal A, 2020 - Springer
Nuclear effective field theories (EFTs) have been developed over the last quarter-century
with considerable impact on the description of light and even medium-mass nuclei. At the …

Effective field theory for few-boson systems

B Bazak, M Eliyahu, U van Kolck - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
We study universal bosonic few-body systems within the framework of effective field theory
at leading order (LO). We calculate binding energies of systems of up to six particles and the …