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			<titleStmt><title level='a'>Universal relations for dilute systems with two-body decays in reduced dimensions</title></titleStmt>
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				<publisher>the American Physical Society</publisher>
				<date>06/01/2024</date>
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					<idno type="par_id">10562821</idno>
					<idno type="doi">10.1103/PhysRevA.109.063301</idno>
					<title level='j'>Physical Review A</title>
<idno>2469-9926</idno>
<biblScope unit="volume">109</biblScope>
<biblScope unit="issue">6</biblScope>					

					<author>Mingyuan He</author><author>Chenwei Lv</author><author>Qi Zhou</author>
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			<abstract><ab><![CDATA[Physical systems in reduced dimensions exhibit intriguing properties. For instance, the dependences of two-body and many-body physics on scattering lengths are distinct from their counterparts in three dimensions. Whereas many studies of ultracold atoms and molecules in reduced dimensions have been focusing on closed systems, two-body losses may occur in such systems. Here, we show that the two-body inelastic loss rate in reduced dimensions can be expressed in universal relations that are governed by contacts. These universal relations correlate the two-body decay rate with other physical observables at zero and finite temperatures and generic interaction strengths. Our results will provide experimentalists with a new protocol to study inelastic scatterings in both few-and many-body systems in reduced dimensions.]]></ab></abstract>
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<div xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><head>I. INTRODUCTION</head><p>Ultracold atoms have provided physicists with a highly tunable platform to explore quantum few-body and manybody systems in both three dimensions (3D) and reduced dimensions <ref type="bibr">[1]</ref><ref type="bibr">[2]</ref><ref type="bibr">[3]</ref><ref type="bibr">[4]</ref>. In reduced dimensions, microscopic parameters control few-body and many-body physics in distinct means. For instance, the dependence of phase shifts on energies in one dimension (1D) and two dimensions (2D) is distinct from that in 3D <ref type="bibr">[5,</ref><ref type="bibr">6]</ref>. Furthermore, in the celebrated universal relations that underlie ultracold atoms and other dilute quantum systems in arbitrary dimensions, the s-wave scatterings enter these relations in terms of a 0 and ln a 0 in 1D and 2D, respectively, while universal relations in 3D often include 1/a 0 . a 0 is the s-wave scattering length. It is thus an important task to find the counterparts of 3D universal relations in reduced dimensions, which helps us to study how contacts manifest themselves in reduced dimensions. In such studies of universal relations, most works have been focusing on systems with elastic scatterings. However, two-body losses due to inelastic collisions may occur in realistic systems <ref type="bibr">[30]</ref>. It is thus desirable to explore how inelastic scatterings may change the universal relations or provide us with conceptually new relations in 3D and reduced dimensions.</p><p>In addition to ultracold atoms, ultracold molecules have also been well established as a powerful platform to study a wide range of important topics in condensed matter physics, atomic, molecular and optical physics, and chemical physics <ref type="bibr">[31]</ref><ref type="bibr">[32]</ref><ref type="bibr">[33]</ref><ref type="bibr">[34]</ref>. One of the key issues emerged in experiments is the inelastic loss of molecules <ref type="bibr">[35]</ref><ref type="bibr">[36]</ref><ref type="bibr">[37]</ref><ref type="bibr">[38]</ref><ref type="bibr">[39]</ref><ref type="bibr">[40]</ref><ref type="bibr">[41]</ref><ref type="bibr">[42]</ref><ref type="bibr">[43]</ref><ref type="bibr">[44]</ref><ref type="bibr">[45]</ref><ref type="bibr">[46]</ref><ref type="bibr">[47]</ref><ref type="bibr">[48]</ref><ref type="bibr">[49]</ref><ref type="bibr">[50]</ref><ref type="bibr">[51]</ref><ref type="bibr">[52]</ref><ref type="bibr">[53]</ref>. For instance, two reactive molecules can get close and react as AB + AB &#8594; A 2 + B 2 , * hemingyuan7@gmail.com &#8224; zhou753@purdue.edu which leads to the loss of AB molecules <ref type="bibr">[43,</ref><ref type="bibr">54]</ref>. Even in the absence of reactions, the formation of complexes could also lead to two-body decays <ref type="bibr">[42,</ref><ref type="bibr">44,</ref><ref type="bibr">[55]</ref><ref type="bibr">[56]</ref><ref type="bibr">[57]</ref><ref type="bibr">[58]</ref><ref type="bibr">[59]</ref>. Similar to atoms, ultracold molecules can also be prepared in reduced dimensions <ref type="bibr">[60]</ref><ref type="bibr">[61]</ref><ref type="bibr">[62]</ref><ref type="bibr">[63]</ref><ref type="bibr">[64]</ref><ref type="bibr">[65]</ref><ref type="bibr">[66]</ref>. A recent pioneering experiment has made an attempt to explore how the two-body decay may change with reducing the dimension by increasing the transverse confinement <ref type="bibr">[60]</ref>.</p><p>In 3D, it has been recognized that universal relations exist in systems with two-body losses <ref type="bibr">[67]</ref><ref type="bibr">[68]</ref><ref type="bibr">[69]</ref>. Such relations directly correlate two-body decays with other many-body properties such as the momentum distribution and the densitydensity correlation function. Motivated by the importance of studying ultracold atoms and ultracold molecules in reduced dimensions, in this paper, we explore universal relations in 1D and 2D systems when an arbitrary partial wave scattering is inelastic. We show that the two-body inelastic loss rate can be expressed as contacts multiplied by microscopic parameters determined purely by two-body physics at short range, similar to those obtained in 3D. As such, our results are valid at zero and finite temperatures and generic interaction strengths and will provide experimentalists a useful protocol to explore two-body decays in a many-body environment in reduced dimensions.</p><p>The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Sec. II, we provide a generic method of deriving the two-body inelastic loss rate, the momentum distribution, and the density correlation function in d-dimensional (dD) systems, where d = 1, 2, 3. In Sec. III, we consider single-component ultracold reactive molecules in 1D and derive the exact relations between contacts and physical quantities including the twobody inelastic loss rate, the momentum distribution, and the density correlation function. Similar discussions for 2D are given in Sec. IV. Furthermore, we discuss the temperature dependence of the loss rate in both the homogeneous systems and the harmonic traps in Sec. V. We conclude our results in Sec. VI.</p></div>
<div xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><head>II. TWO-BODY INELASTIC LOSS RATE FOR REACTIVE MOLECULES IN d DIMENSIONS</head><p>We consider a single-component system of N reactive molecules. The Hamiltonian is written as</p><p>where M is the mass of each molecule and x i = (x (1)  i , x (2)  i , . . . , x (d ) i ) is the coordinate of the ith molecule in dD space. x i j = x ix j = (x (1)  i j , x (2)  i j , . . . , x (d ) i j ). V ext (x i ) is the external trap. U (x i j ) = U R (x i j ) + iU I (x i j ) is the complex two-body short-range interaction, which captures the twobody inelastic collisions and is nonzero only when |x i j | &lt; r 0 . U I (x i j ) is nonpositive and nonzero at an even shorter distance characterized by r * , |x i j | &lt; r * &lt; r 0 , where the chemical reaction happens. The many-body wave function, which is an eigenstate of the system, satisfies the Schr&#246;dinger equation</p><p>We consider a finite system, the net current of which vanishes at large distance. The two-body inelastic loss rate is written as</p><p>which is consistent with the second quantization form using bosonic (fermionic) operators</p><p>which can be derived from the Lindblad master equation <ref type="bibr">[69]</ref>.</p><p>It is clear that a length scale separation exists in ultracold reactive molecules, i.e., the range of interaction r 0 is much shorter than the average interparticle distance characterized by the inverse of the Fermi momentum k F while the reactive collisions happen in an even shorter distance characterized by r * , r * &lt; r 0 k -1 F . When the distance between any two molecules is much shorter than the average interparticle distance, i.e., |x i j | k -1 F , the possibility of a third molecule to get close to these two molecules and interact together at short distance is negligible. It is thus sufficient to consider only the two-body effect. The many-body wave function has the asymptotical behavior at short distance, which is stated as</p><p>where is the two-body collision energy and &#968; s (x i j ; ) is the two-body relative wave function which satisfies</p><p>s is the angular momentum quantum number, which denotes (l, m) for 3D and l for 1D and 2D. &#8711; 2</p><p>. X i j = {(x i + x j )/2, x k =i, j } denotes the center-of-mass coordinate of the ith and the jth molecules and the coordinates of all the other N -2 molecules. G s (X i j ; E -) is the many-body wave function, which characterizes the center-of-mass motion of the ith and the jth molecules and the motions of all the other N -2 molecules.</p><p>Whereas G s (X i j ; E -) is usually very complex and hard to know, &#968; s (x i j ; ) has a universal asymptotic form when</p><p>), where xij = x i j /|x i j | and Y s (x i j ) is the generalized spherical harmonics in dD. Furthermore, &#981; s (|x i j |; ) can be expanded as &#981; s (|x i j |; ) = &#981; (0)  s (|x i j |) + &#981; (1)  s (|x i j |)q 2 + O(q 4 ), where q = (M / h2 ) 1/2 . Equation ( <ref type="formula">5</ref>) can then be written as</p><p>s (X i j )</p><p>+ &#981; (1)  s (|x i j |)g (1)  s (X i j ) Y s (x i j ), <ref type="bibr">(7)</ref> where g (m) s (X i j ) = q 2m G s (X i j ; E -). Starting from Eq. ( <ref type="formula">7</ref>) and the exact universal asymptotic form of &#981; (0)  s (|x i j |) and &#981; (1)  s</p><p>F , a number of universal relations determined by contact C, a fundamental quantity in dilute quantum systems, can be derived. C &#8764; dX i j g (&#957;) * s g (&#957; )  s . In this paper, we will focus on the universal relations of the two-body inelastic decay rate, the momentum distribution, and the density correlation function.</p><p>Two-body inelastic loss rate. The two-body inelastic loss rate can be obtained by solving Eq. (3). Starting from Eqs. ( <ref type="formula">5</ref>)-( <ref type="formula">7</ref>), the right-hand side of Eq. ( <ref type="formula">3</ref>) can be obtained by solving the following equation, which is</p><p>where J is the shorthand notation of the summation and integral i&lt; j dX i j r 0 0 dx i j . The last term on the right-hand side of Eq. ( <ref type="formula">8</ref>) can be further rewritten as the surface integral:</p><p>One can use the mathematics given in the Appendix during the calculation. By taking the explicit expressions of &#981; (0) s (|x i j |) and &#981; (1)  s (|x i j |) at r 0 |x i j | k -1 F into Eq. ( <ref type="formula">7</ref>) first, and bringing Eq. ( <ref type="formula">7</ref>) back to Eqs. ( <ref type="formula">8</ref>) and ( <ref type="formula">9</ref>) then, Eq. ( <ref type="formula">8</ref>) can be calculated explicitly. Finally, by taking Eq. ( <ref type="formula">8</ref>) back to Eq. ( <ref type="formula">3</ref>), the explicit expression of Eq. ( <ref type="formula">3</ref>) can be obtained.</p><p>TABLE I. The low-energy expansion of phase shift &#951; l in different dimensions [70]. &#947; &#8776; 0.577 is the Euler's constant. l One dimension Two dimensions Three dimensions</p><p>Momentum distribution. The momentum distribution can be obtained by using the first quantization form</p><p>Density correlation function. The density correlation function can be obtained by using the definition</p><p>Near the Feshbach resonance of a certain partial-wave scattering, contacts of this partial wave will be dominant. For simplicity, we consider single-component molecules in a single partial-wave scattering channel s in the following discussions. The generalization of these discussions to systems with mixed partial-wave scatterings will be straightforward.</p></div>
<div xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><head>III. UNIVERSAL RELATIONS FOR REACTIVE MOLECULES IN ONE DIMENSION</head><p>In this section, we consider single-component reactive molecules in 1D. We need to clarify that by universal relations, we mean the relations between the two-body loss and other quantities that can be expressed in terms of contacts and microscopic parameters independent of the temperature and the total particle number. As such, the meaning of universal is different from the other context, where effects dependent only on the scattering length are called universal and the effective range and other beyond-scattering-length effects are dubbed nonuniversal.</p><p>We label s = l,</p><p>in the following discussions. The generalized spherical har-</p><p>where &#951; l is the 1D lth partial-wave phase shift and can be expanded under the low-energy limit q r 0 1, as shown in Table <ref type="table">I</ref>.</p></div>
<div xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><head>A. Even-wave scatterings with l = 0</head><p>We first consider the even-wave scatterings with l = 0. For even-wave scatterings, it is sufficient to take the zero-energy limit, i.e., we consider only the even-wave scattering length a 0 and &#981; (0) 0 (|z i j |). Based on Eq. ( <ref type="formula">12</ref>), we obtain</p><p>By taking Eq. ( <ref type="formula">13</ref>) into Eq. ( <ref type="formula">7</ref>) first, and then bringing Eq. ( <ref type="formula">7</ref>) back to Eqs. ( <ref type="formula">3</ref>), <ref type="bibr">(10)</ref>, and ( <ref type="formula">11</ref>), respectively, we obtain the following universal relations. Two-body inelastic loss rate. From the calculation of Eq. ( <ref type="formula">3</ref>), we obtain that</p><p>where C (0) 1 is the 1D even-wave contact defined in Table <ref type="table">II</ref>. Momentum distribution: From Eq. ( <ref type="formula">10</ref>), we obtain that</p><p>Density correlation function. From Eq. ( <ref type="formula">11</ref>), we obtain</p><p>B. Odd-wave scatterings with l = 1</p><p>Next, we consider the odd-wave scatterings with l = 1. Based on Eq. ( <ref type="formula">12</ref>), we obtain</p><p>where a 1 and r e 1 are the 1D odd-wave scattering length and effective range, respectively. By taking Eqs. ( <ref type="formula">17</ref>) and <ref type="bibr">(18)</ref> into Eq. ( <ref type="formula">7</ref>) first, and then bringing Eq. ( <ref type="formula">7</ref>) back to Eqs. ( <ref type="formula">3</ref>), <ref type="bibr">(10)</ref>, and <ref type="bibr">(11)</ref>, respectively, we obtain the following universal relations.</p><p>TABLE II. The two-body inelastic loss rate in different dimensions. &#966;(0)</p><p>s (r) is a wave function obtained from extending the actual wave function &#981; (0)  s (r) outside the potential (r &gt; r 0 ) into the regime r &lt; r 0 . R i j = (R &#961; i j , R z i j ).</p><p>One dimension (s = l) Two dimensions (s = l) Three dimensions <ref type="bibr">[69]</ref> (s = lm)</p><p>)N (N -1) dR z i j Re g (0) * s g (1)   s 2(2&#960; ) 2 N (N -1) dR &#961; i j Re g (0) * s g (1)   s 2(4&#960; ) 2 N (N -1) dR i j Re g (0) * s g (1)   s C (s) 3 2(2 2 )N (N -1) dR z i j Im g (0) * s g (1)   s 2(2&#960; ) 2 N (N -1) dR &#961; i j Im g (0) * s g (1)   s 2(4&#960; ) 2 N (N -1) dR i j Im g (0) * s g (1)   s</p><p>Two-body inelastic loss rate. As shown in Sec. II, to calculate Eq. ( <ref type="formula">3</ref>), we could calculate Eqs. ( <ref type="formula">8</ref>) and ( <ref type="formula">9</ref>) first. From the calculation of Eq. ( <ref type="formula">9</ref>), we have (see Appendix)</p><p>By using a trick that the first term on the right-hand side of the 1D odd-wave effective range in Table III can be rewritten as</p><p>one has</p><p>where &#966;(0) 1 (r) is obtained by extending the universal asymptotic form of &#981; (0) 1 (r) in the range r 0 r k -1 F into the range r &lt; r 0 , i.e., &#966;(0) 1 (r) = 1r/a 1 . Following the procedure given in Sec. II, Eq. ( <ref type="formula">3</ref>) can be written as</p><p>where C (1)   &#957; are the 1D odd-wave contacts that fully capture the many-body physics and &#954; &#957; are the microscopic parameters determined purely by the two-body short-range physics. Both C (1)   &#957; and &#954; &#957; are defined in Table <ref type="table">II</ref>. &#954; 1 and TABLE III. The effective range r e l in different dimensions <ref type="bibr">[70]</ref>.</p><p>&#954; 2 can simply be expressed as Im(1/a 1 ) and Im(-r e 1 /2), respectively. &#954; 3 , however, is a new microscopic parameter emerged in the system with inelastic losses. As shown in Table <ref type="table">II</ref>, the physical meaning of &#954; 3 is the integration of [Im &#966;(0) 1 (r)] 2 subtracted by [Im&#981; (0) 1 (r)] 2 with respect to r from 0 to r 0 . We note that &#954; 2 is the real part of the integral regarding &#981; (0) * &#981; (1) U I , while &#954; 3 is the imaginary part of this integral. In general, the real and imaginary parts of &#981; (0) * &#981; (1) U I are independent functions. &#954; 2 and &#954; 3 are thus independent parameters. Whereas it is possible to express &#954; 3 in terms of other microscopic parameters characterizing the two-body interactions, here, we keep &#954; 3 in the expression of the universal relation since all these parameters, &#954; 1,2,3 , are independent on the particle number and temperature. As such, &#954; 1,2,3 are measurable quantities.</p><p>Momentum distribution. From Eq. ( <ref type="formula">10</ref>), we obtain that</p><p>Density correlation function. From Eq. ( <ref type="formula">11</ref>), we obtain</p><p>3</p><p>3</p><p>3</p><p>By fitting the data of quantities such as the momentum distribution and the density correlation function obtained in experiment, all quantities in Eqs. ( <ref type="formula">14</ref>) and ( <ref type="formula">20</ref>) can be measured.</p><p>For s-wave inelastic scatterings, only the leading term determined by scattering length a 0 is important in the lowenergy expansion of phase shift (See Table <ref type="table">I</ref>). C (1)   1 alone is enough to describe physics in such systems. Generally speaking, for high-partial-wave scatterings with a generic short-range interaction, other microscopic parameters like the effective range are required in the low-energy expansion of phase shift. The low-energy expansion of the wave function needs to be kept up to the q 2 term in Eq. <ref type="bibr">(7)</ref>. As such, all three contacts C (1)  &#957; are required in the complete expressions of the universal relations that apply to all parameter regimes. Nevertheless, in certain parameter regimes, the terms including C (1)  2 and C (1)  2 in Eq. ( <ref type="formula">20</ref>) may be less important. For instance, in weakly interacting systems when a 1 &#8594; 0, the contribution to the phase shift is dominated by the scattering length and other microscopic parameters can be neglected. As such, the universal relations are mainly governed by C (1)  1 , similar to the original universal relations for s-wave scatterings. This could simplify data analysis in experiments as fewer parameters are required to fit the experimental results. This argument works for 2D and 3D systems as well.</p></div>
<div xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><head>IV. UNIVERSAL RELATIONS FOR REACTIVE MOLECULES IN TWO DIMENSIONS</head><p>We now consider single-component reactive molecules in 2D. We label s = l, x i = &#961; i , x i j = &#961; i j = (x i j , y i j ), and X i j = R &#961; i j in the following discussions. The generalized spherical harmonics in 2D is Y l ( &#961;ij ) = [(x i j + iy i j )/&#961; i j ] l / &#8730; 2&#960; , where &#961; i j = |&#961; i j |. The two-body wave function &#968; l (&#961; i j ; ) = &#981; l (&#961; i j ; )Y l ( &#961;ij ) has the universal asymptotic form when r 0</p><p>where J l (N l ) is the Bessel function of the first (second) kind and &#951; l is the 2D lth partial-wave phase shift and can be expanded under the low-energy limit q r 0 1, as shown in Table <ref type="table">I</ref>.</p></div>
<div xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><head>A. s-wave scatterings with l = 0</head><p>We first consider the s-wave scatterings with l = 0. For s-wave scatterings, it is sufficient to take the zero-energy limit, i.e., we consider only the s-wave scattering lengths a 0 and &#981; (0) 0 (&#961; i j ). We obtain</p><p>By taking Eq. ( <ref type="formula">24</ref>) into Eq. ( <ref type="formula">7</ref>) first, and then bringing Eq. ( <ref type="formula">7</ref>) back to Eqs. ( <ref type="formula">3</ref>), <ref type="bibr">(10)</ref>, and <ref type="bibr">(11)</ref>, respectively, we obtain the following universal relations. Two-body inelastic loss rate. From the calculation of Eq. (3), we obtain that</p><p>where C (0) 1 is the 2D s-wave contact defined in Table <ref type="table">II</ref>. Momentum distribution. From Eq. ( <ref type="formula">10</ref>), we obtain that</p><p>Density correlation function. From Eq. ( <ref type="formula">11</ref>), we obtain</p><p>B. High-partial-wave scatterings with l &gt; 0</p><p>Next, we consider the high-partial-wave scatterings with l &gt; 0. From Eq. ( <ref type="formula">23</ref>), we obtain</p><p>&#981; (1)  l=1 (&#961; i j )</p><p>&#981; (1)  l&gt;1 (&#961; i j )</p><p>where a l and r e l are the 2D lth partial-wave scattering length and effective range, respectively. By taking Eqs. ( <ref type="formula">28</ref>)- <ref type="bibr">(30)</ref> into Eq. ( <ref type="formula">7</ref>) first, and then bringing Eq. ( <ref type="formula">7</ref>) back to Eqs. ( <ref type="formula">3</ref>), <ref type="bibr">(10)</ref>, and <ref type="bibr">(11)</ref>, respectively, we obtain the following universal relations.</p><p>Two-body inelastic loss rate. As shown in Sec. II, to calculate Eq. ( <ref type="formula">3</ref>), we could calculate Eqs. ( <ref type="formula">8</ref>) and ( <ref type="formula">9</ref>) first. From the calculation of Eq. ( <ref type="formula">9</ref>), we have (see Appendix)</p><p>for the p-wave scattering and</p><p>for the higher-partial-wave scatterings with l &gt; 1. By using the same trick in 1D case that the first term on the right-hand side of the 2D effective range in Table III can be rewritten as</p><p>for the p-wave scattering and</p><p>for the higher-partial-wave scatterings with l &gt; 1, one has</p><p>for l &gt; 0, where &#966;(0) l (r) is obtained from extending the universal asymptotic form of &#981; (0) l (r) in the range r 0 r k -1 F into the range r &lt; r 0 , i.e., &#966;(0)</p><p>It is interesting to notice that, for high-partialwave scatterings, the above formula suits for 3D systems as well, which gives</p><p>Following the procedure given in Sec. II, Eq. ( <ref type="formula">3</ref>) can be written as</p><p>where C (l ) &#957; are the 2D lth partial-wave contacts that fully capture the many-body physics and &#954; &#957; are the microscopic parameters determined purely by the two-body short-range physics. Both C (l )  &#957; and &#954; &#957; are defined in Table <ref type="table">II</ref>. &#954; 1 and &#954; 2 can simply be expressed as Im(1/a l ) and Im(-r e l /2), respectively. Similar to that for 1D odd-wave scatterings &#954; 3 , however, is a new microscopic parameter emerged in the system with inelastic losses. As shown in Table <ref type="table">II</ref>, again, the physical meaning of &#954; 3 is the integration of [Im &#966;(0) l (r)] 2 subtracted by [Im&#981; (0)  l (r)] 2 with respect to r from 0 to r 0 . Momentum distribution. From Eq. ( <ref type="formula">10</ref>), we obtain that</p><p>Density correlation function. From Eq. ( <ref type="formula">11</ref>), we obtain</p><p>1 -Re</p><p>for the p-wave scattering and S(&#961; i j )</p><p>for the higher-partial-wave scatterings with l &gt; 1.</p><p>By fitting the data of quantities such as the momentum distribution and the density correlation function obtained in experiment, all quantities in Eqs. ( <ref type="formula">25</ref>) and ( <ref type="formula">33</ref>) can be measured. It is worth pointing out that it might be difficult to distinguish certain terms such as ln(&#961; i j /r 0 )&#961; 2 i j and ln(&#961; i j /r 0 ) in practice. It is nevertheless useful to keep the full expression of the universal relation as a complete description, which shall be useful even for purely theoretical studies. In experiments, despite that the full expression may lead to difficulties in fitting the experimental data, a unique feature is that the same universal relation applies to both the weakly and strongly interacting regimes and also any particle numbers. Furthermore, in certain parameter regimes, some terms may be more important than others. For instance, when C (1)   2 Re(1/a 1 )C (1)  2 + Im(1/a 1 )C (1)  3 , the term dependent on ln(&#961; i j /r 0 )&#961; 2 i j shall be more important than that dependent on ln(&#961; i j /r 0 ). This may simplify the fitting procedures.</p></div>
<div xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><head>V. DISCUSSION</head><p>In Table <ref type="table">II</ref>, we list the two-body inelastic loss rate in 1D, 2D, and 3D. One can recognize that the two-body inelastic loss rate has exactly the same form in all dD, which is</p><p>or, equivalently,</p><p>where d is the solid angle in dD, which is 1 = 2, 2 = 2&#960; , and 3 = 4&#960; , respectively. n = N/L d and C (s) &#957; = C (s) &#957; /L d are the molecular density and the contact density of the system, respectively. L d is the size of the system in dD. Whereas &#954; &#957; behave very differently in different dimensions for s-wave (even-wave for 1D) scatterings, which is originated from the distinct behavior of the low-energy expansion of the phase shift in different dimensions as shown in Table <ref type="table">I</ref>, they are exactly the same for high-partial-wave scatterings, regardless of the dimension of the system.</p><p>We need to emphasize that we have considered the shortrange interactions U (r) with a cutoff length r 0 throughout this work to demonstrate the physics underlying the universal relations in lossy systems at low dimensions. When an electric field is applied, the dipole moment of a polar molecule becomes finite, and the dipole-dipole interaction &#8764;A/|r| n with n = 3 would become important. Generally, for dilute systems with the power-law interaction &#8764;A/|r| n where n &gt; 2, a characteristic length r = (M|A|/ h2 ) 1/(n-2) can be defined <ref type="bibr">[71]</ref>. When r |r| k -1 F , due to such a length scale separation, the many-body wave function has universal asymptotic behavior Eq. ( <ref type="formula">7</ref>) as well <ref type="bibr">[72]</ref>. Following the method presented in our paper, universal relation <ref type="bibr">(37)</ref> can also be obtained. While the low-energy expansion of the phase shift might be very different that the scattering length and effective range may not be well defined <ref type="bibr">[73,</ref><ref type="bibr">74]</ref>, new microscopic parameters determined by the details of the interactions, such as n and l, need to be used. For instance, without losses, universal relations for systems with dipole-dipole interactions have been studied <ref type="bibr">[72]</ref>. In lossy systems like reactive molecules, it will be interesting to study how the power-law interactions influence contacts, universal relations, and the decay rates.</p><p>Equations <ref type="bibr">(37)</ref> and <ref type="bibr">(38)</ref> are exact for any many-body eigenstates. Thus, it is invariant under the thermal average.</p></div>
<div xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><head>A. Temperature dependence of the loss rate in homogeneous systems</head><p>We take a two-body system in free space as an example. In this case, becomes a good quantum number. The two-body wave function can be written as (x 1 , x 2 ) = &#966; c (X 12 )&#968; s (x 12 ), where &#966; c (X 12 ) is the normalized wave function of the center-of-mass motion of the two molecules.</p><p>for 1D systems and</p><p>tan &#951; l N l (q &#961; 12 )]Y l ( &#961;12 ) <ref type="bibr">(40)</ref> for 2D systems, where L 1 is the length of the 1D system and L 2 is the area of the 2D system. Recall that, in 3D,</p><p>where r 12 = (&#961; 12 , z 12 ), j l (n l ) is the spherical Bessel function of the first (second) kind, and L 3 is the volume of the 3D system. By denoting C [l]  &#957; as C (l ) &#957; for 1D, C (l ) &#957; + C (-l ) &#957; for 2D, and m C (lm) &#957; for 3D, respectively, and based on the definition in Table <ref type="table">II</ref>, C [l]  &#957; in dD is expressed as</p><p>where</p><p>is the Kronecker delta. &#963; d is the fold of degeneracy for the lth partial-wave scatterings in dD, which is &#963; 1 = 1, &#963; 2 = 2, and &#963; 3 = 2l + 1, respectively. Based on the results shown in Table <ref type="table">I</ref>, f l,d (q ) can be expanded in the low-energy limit, f l,d (q ) = f (0) l,d + O(q ), where f (0) l,d is q independent and relates only to the scattering length a l . Note that f (0) 0,2 = 1/[ln(a 0 e &#947; /2)]. As an example, we consider the scattering states only and the case that only the term f (0) l,d in f l,d (q ) is important, where q can treated as a real quantity and C [l]  3 = 0. By considering the second-order virial expansion only and based on the two-body results as shown in Eqs. ( <ref type="formula">42</ref>)-( <ref type="formula">44</ref>), the thermal averaged contacts can be obtained by doing the calculation [69]</p><p>where Z is the partition function, E c = h2 q 2 c /(4M ) is the energy of the center-of-mass motion with momentum q c , n = h2 q 2 n /M is the eigenenergy of the relative motion with momentum q n , and k B is the Boltzmann constant. &#956; is the chemical potential, which can be extracted from N = k B T &#8706; &#956; ln Z. In the high-temperature regime, N/L d &#8776; exp[&#956;/(k B T )]/&#955; d T , where &#955; T = [2&#960; h2 /(k B T M)] 1/2 is the thermal wavelength. We have</p><p>(46) Thus, we obtain C [l]  &#957; T as a function of N and T by substituting Eqs. ( <ref type="formula">42</ref>) and ( <ref type="formula">43</ref>) into Eq. ( <ref type="formula">46</ref>). Based on the fact that &#8734; 0 exp(-nx 2 )x w-1 dx = 2 -1 (w/2)n -w/2 , we obtain</p></div>
<div xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><head>B. Temperature dependence of the loss rate in harmonic traps</head><p>When a harmonic trap V ext (x) = (1/2)M&#969; 2 (x &#8226; x) is applied, under the local density approximation, we can replace &#956; by the local chemical potential &#956;(x) = &#956;(0) -V ext (x) and write n(x) = exp[&#956;(x)/(k B T )]/&#955; d T in the high-temperature regime. &#969; is the harmonic frequency. &#956;(0) is the chemical potential at the center of the trap. At any point x in the trap, Eq. ( <ref type="formula">38</ref>) still applies, we have</p><p>Thus, by taking the integration over x on both sides of Eq. ( <ref type="formula">49</ref>), the two-body inelastic loss rate in dD traps can be written as</p><p>Based on Eqs. ( <ref type="formula">47</ref>) and <ref type="bibr">(48)</ref>, at the center of the trap, we still have</p><p>T , (51)</p><p>where n(0) can be expressed by N trap and T , which is</p><p>The total contacts C trap &#957; T can be determined by integrating the local contacts in the trap, C [l]trap &#957; T = C [l]  &#957; (0) T e -2V ext (x)/(k B T ) dx</p><p>Thus, based on Eqs. ( <ref type="formula">50</ref>)-( <ref type="formula">54</ref>), one can map the loss rate in a harmonic trap to the one in a homogeneous system by setting the effective size of the homogeneous system to be Ld = [4&#960; k B T /(M&#969; 2 )] d/2 . One has</p><p>or, equivalently,</p><p>where &#241; = N trap / Ld is the average molecular density of the system and &#946; l,d is the loss-rate coefficient for dD lth partialwave scatterings.</p></div>
<div xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><head>VI. CONCLUSION</head><p>In conclusion, we have established universal relations for the two-body inelastic loss rate, which are controlled by contacts C (s)  &#957; in 1D and 2D, respectively. Whereas &#954; &#957; have different forms in different dimensions for s-wave (even-wave for 1D) scatterings, the loss rate can be written as exactly the same form in arbitrary dimensions for high-partial-wave (oddwave for 1D) scatterings. Moreover, the two-body inelastic loss rate can be related to other physical quantities such as the momentum distribution and the density correlation function through contacts. While we considered single-component ultracold atoms or reactive molecules, discussions can be generalized to multicomponent systems straightforwardly. It will also be interesting to consider a finite confinement in the transverse direction such that the dimension crossover can be explored in the presence of two-body losses. We hope that our work could inspire more efforts of using contacts and universal relations to study novel phenomena in lossy quantum systems in condensed matter physics, atomic, molecular, and optical physics, and chemical physics.</p></div>
<div xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><head>APPENDIX: MATHEMATICS USED IN THE CALCULATION OF EQ. (9)</head><p>For a specific partial-wave scattering only, to calculate Eq. ( <ref type="formula">9</ref>), one can first calculate r 0 0 dx i j &#968; * s (x i j ; )&#8711; 2 x i j &#968; s (x i j ; ) -&#968; s (x i j ; )&#8711;</p><p>2 x i j &#968; * s (x i j ; ) = r 0 0 dx i j &#981; * s (|x i j |; )Y * {0} (x i j )&#8711; 2 x i j &#981; s (|x i j |; )Y {0} (x i j ) -&#981; s (|x i j |; )Y {0} (x i j )&#8711; 2 x i j &#981; * s (|x i j |; )Y * {0} (x i j ) = 1 d |x i j |=r 0 &#981; * s (|x i j |; ) &#8706; &#8706;|x i j | &#981; s (|x i j |; ) -&#981; s (|x i j |; ) &#8706; &#8706;|x i j | &#981; * s (|x i j |; ) &#234;x &#8226; dS, (A1) where Y {0} = Y s={0} means that all the quantum numbers in s are zero. &#234;x is the outgoing unit vector perpendicular to S. |Y {0} | 2 = 1/ d is also used. Thus, to calculate Eq. (9), it is helpful to first calculate |x i j | d-1 &#981; * s (|x i j |; ) &#8706; &#8706;|x i j | &#981; s (|x i j |; ) |x i j |=r 0 -|x i j | d-1 &#981; s (|x i j |; ) &#8706; &#8706;|x i j | &#981; * s (|x i j |; ) |x i j |=r 0 . (A2)</p></div>		</body>
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