Three particles in a finite volume

The volume-dependence of a shallow three-particle bound state in the cubic box with a size $L$ is studied. It is shown that, in the unitary limit, the energy-level shift from the infinite-volume position is given by $Delta E=c (kappa^2/m),(kappa L)^{-3/2}|A|^2 exp(-2kappa L/sqrt{3})$, where $kappa$ is the bound-state momentum and $|A|^2$ denotes the three-body analog of the asymptotic normalization constant, which encodes the information about the short-range interactions in the three-body system.