https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-024-01467-4
Review
Three-body forces and Efimov physics in nuclei and atoms
1
Department of Engineering Science, The University of Electro-Communications, 182-8585, Tokyo, Japan
2
Institut für Theoretische Physik II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780, Bochum, Germany
3
RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, 351-0198, Wako, Saitama, Japan
4
Department of Physics, Institute of Science Tokyo, Ookayama, Meguro, 152-8551, Tokyo, Japan
5
Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, 606-8502, Kyoto, Japan
a
shimpei.endo@uec.ac.jp
b
evgeny.epelbaum@rub.de
c
pascal@riken.jp
d
nishida@phys.titech.ac.jp
e
kimiko@phys.titech.ac.jp
f
takahashi.yoshiro.7v@kyoto-u.ac.jp
Received:
16
May
2024
Accepted:
23
November
2024
Published online:
22
January
2025
This review article presents historical developments and recent advances in our understanding on the three-body forces and Efimov physics, from an interdisciplinary viewpoint encompassing nuclear physics and cold atoms. Theoretical attempts to elucidate the three-body force with the chiral effective field theory are explained, followed by an overview of experiments aimed at observing signatures of the nuclear three-body force. Some recent experimental and theoretical works in the field of cold atoms devoted to measuring and engineering three-body forces among atoms are also presented. As a phenomenon arising from the three-body effect, Efimov physics in both cold atoms and nuclear systems is reviewed.
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