Minerva-Gentner Symposium on

Coherent manipulation
of few-body complexes

20-23 February, 2023The David Lopatie Conference Centre
Weizmann Institute of Science

Decades of intense theoretical research established the near threshold bound few-body
complexes as a universal paradigm in quantum mechanical systems exhibiting low-energy
collisional resonances. Fine tuning of collisional properties is highlighted in breaking the
continuous scale invariance of the two-body system when the third particle is injected in
the game. The famous Efimov effect underlies the three-body correlations in this limit and
provides a beautiful example of discrete scale invariance in nature.
The aim of this symposium is to meet different communities that are at the forefront of the
few-body physics related research and to initiate a fruitful cross-platform dialog.

The topics of the symposium are focused on (but not limited to):
 

• Coherent manipulation of few-body states in ultracold atoms
• Ultracold systems at unitarity, few- to many-body transition
• Weakly bound He clusters and their coherent manipulation
• Collisional resonances in atom-ion mixtures and simple molecules
• New experimental platforms
• New challenges in few-body theory