Entanglement of identical particles and the detection process

DOI10.1002/PROP.201200079zbMATH Open1338.81080arXiv0902.1684OpenAlexW2088036717WikidataQ59471880 ScholiaQ59471880MaRDI QIDQ2812928FDOQ2812928

Authors: Malte C.Tichy, F. De Melo, M. Kuś, F. Mintert, A. Buchleitner 

Publication date: 13 June 2016

Published in: Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce detector-level entanglement, a unified entanglement concept for identical particles that takes into account the possible deletion of many-particle which-way information through the detection process. The concept implies a measure for the effective indistinguishability of the particles, which is controlled by the measurement setup and which quantifies the extent to which the (anti-)symmetrization of the wave-function impacts on physical observables. Initially indistinguishable particles can gain or loose entanglement on their transition to distinguishability, and their quantum statistical behavior depends on their initial entanglement. Our results show that entanglement cannot be attributed to a state of identical particles alone, but that the detection process has to be incorporated in the analysis.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.1684

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zbMATH Keywords

entanglementindistinguishabilityquantum and classical correlationsdetection processsymmetrization postulate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70)

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