Elastic scattering of three ultracold bosons

Elastic scattering of three bosons at low energy is a fundamental problem in the many-body description of ultracold Bose gases, entering via the three-body scattering hypervolume D. We study this quantity for identical bosons that interact via a pairwise finite-range potential. Our calculations cover the regime from strongly repulsive potentials towards attractive potentials supporting multiple two-body bound states and are consistent with the few existing predictions for D. We present the first numerical confirmation of the universal predictions for D that are made in the strongly-interacting regime, where Efimov physics dominates, for a local nonzero-range potential. Our findings highlight how finite-range effects, such as d-wave interactions, become important as the interaction strength is reduced.