ESC seminar No. 10

Quantum-mechanical treatment of three-atom system

Date
December 2 (Fri.), 2005, 14:30-15:30
Place
Conference Room, 1F Earth Simulator Research building, YES
Speaker
Dr. Hiroya Suno (Industrial Application Group, Earth Simulator Center)
Language
Japanese

Abstract

Recently, advances in laser techniques made it possible to cool neutral atomic Bose gases below 1μΚ, and "Bose-Einstein condensations" have been observed, where a huge number of atoms occupy the lowest, ground-energy level. Although such a ultracold gas constitutes a many-body problem, its physical properties depend strongly on the interactions between two atoms or on those among three atoms. In the seminar, I will treat the problem of three-body collision, which is known to be one of the most difficult ones, and explain how it is possible to solve the problem numerically in quantum mechanics. I also treat the three-atom problem for Fermionic atoms and discuss the differences with the case of Bosonic atoms.