Diffraction of entangled particles by light gratings

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2015.02.010MaRDI QIDQ307179zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pedro Sancho

Publication date 1 September 2016

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02409

zbMATH Keywords

entangled statesdiffraction by light gratingsdiscontinuous processesexchange effectstwo-particle interference

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

Abstract: We analyze the diffraction regime of the Kapitza-Dirac effect for particles entangled in momentum. The detection patterns show two-particle interferences. In the single-mode case we identify a discontinuity in the set of joint detection probabilities, associated with the disconnected character of the space of non-separable states. For Gaussian multi-mode states we derive the diffraction patterns, providing an example of the dependence of the light-matter interaction on entanglement. When the particles are identical, we can explore the relation between exchange and entanglement effects. We find a complementary behavior between overlapping and Schmidt's number. In particular, symmetric entanglement can cancel the exchange effects.

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