Wave-particle duality of many-body quantum states

Abstract: We formulate a general theory of wave-particle duality for many-body quantum states, which quantifies how wavelike and particlelike properties balance each other. Much as in the well-understood single-particle case, which-way information—here, on the level of many-particle paths—lends particle character, while interference—here, due to coherent superpositions of many-particle amplitudes—indicates wavelike properties. We analyze how many-particle which-way information, continuously tunable by the level of distinguishability of fermionic or bosonic, identical and possibly interacting particles, constrains interference contributions to many-particle observables and thus controls the quantum-to-classical transition in many-particle quantum systems. The versatility of our theoretical framework is illustrated for Hong-Ou-Mandel-like and Bose-Hubbard-like exemplary settings

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Physical review. X. - 11, 3 (2021) , 031041, ISSN: 2160-3308

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Freiburg
(wer)
Universität
(wann)
2021
Urheber
Dittel, Christoph
Dufour, Gabriel
Weihs, Gregor
Buchleitner, Andreas

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevX.11.031041
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-2203361
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