Eur. Phys. J. D (2016) 70: 238
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2016-70481-1

Regular Article

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

¹ Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS-PSL, CNRS, UPMC-Sorbonne Universités, Collège de France, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France
² School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia

^a e-mail: yvan.castin@lkb.ens.fr

Received: 29 July 2016
Received in final form: 27 September 2016
Published online: 10 November 2016

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 R_t 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 R_t for the microscopic narrow Feshbach resonance model. A divergence of R_t 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.