Recombination of three ultracold fermionic atoms
Abstract
Three-body recombination of identical, spin-polarized fermionic atoms in the ultracold limit is investigated. The mechanisms for recombination are described in terms of the ``scattering volume'' V_p in the framework of the adiabatic hyperspherical representation. We have calculated numerically the recombination rate K_3 as a function of V_p and have found that K_3 scales as |V_p|^{8/3} for small |V_p|. A comparison with experimental data is also presented.