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Three Identical Fermions with Resonant p-wave Interactions in Two Dimensions

A new kind of "super-Efimov" states of binding energies scaling as $\ln|E_n|\sim-e^{3nπ/4}$ were predicted by a field theory calculation for three fermions with resonant $p$-wave interactions in two dimensions [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{110}, 235301 (2013)]. However, the universality of these "super-Efimov" states has not been proved independently. In this Letter, we study the three fermion system through the hyperspherical formalism. Within the adiabatic approximation, we find that at $p$-wave resonances, the low energy physics of states of angular momentum $\ell=\pm1$ crucially depends on the value of an emergent dimensionless parameter $Y$ determined by the detail of the inter-particle potential. Only if $Y$ is exactly zero, the predicted "super-Efimov" states exist. If $Y>0$, the scaling of the bound states changes to $\ln|E_n|\sim-(nπ)^2/2Y$, while there are no shallow bound states if $Y<0$.