24th European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics

Universal Short Range Correlations in Bosonic Helium Clusters

2 Sept 2019, 14:55

20m

University of Surrey

Talk Atoms and Molecules Parallel Session Monday: Atoms and Molecules

Speaker

Betzalel Bazak

Description

Short-range correlations in bosonic Helium clusters, composed of $^4$He atoms, are studied utilizing the generalized contact formalism. The emergence of universal $n$-body short-range correlations, associated with the repulsive $1/r^{12}$ part of the Lennard-Jones potential, is formulated and demonstrated numerically via Monte Carlo simulations. The values of the $n$-particle contacts are evaluated for $n\le5$. In the thermodynamic limit, the two-body contact is extracted from available experimental measurements of the static structure factor of liquid $^4$He at high momenta, and found in a good agreement with the value extracted from our calculations.

Presentation materials

Bazak_EFB24.pdf