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Counting Statistics of Many-Particle Quantum Walks

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 Added by Klaus Mayer
 Publication date 2010
  fields Physics
and research's language is English




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We study quantum walks of many non-interacting particles on a beam splitter array, as a paradigmatic testing ground for the competition of single- and many-particle interference in a multi-mode system. We derive a general expression for multi-mode particle-number correlation functions, valid for bosons and fermions, and infer pronounced signatures of many-particle interferences in the counting statistics.



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