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Bosonic behavior of entangled fermions

Quantum Physics 2012-10-17 v2

Abstract

Two bound, entangled fermions form a composite boson, which can be treated as an elementary boson as long as the Pauli principle does not affect the behavior of many such composite bosons. The departure of ideal bosonic behavior is quantified by the normalization ratio of multi-composite-boson states. We derive the two-fermion-states that extremize the normalization ratio for a fixed single-fermion purity P, and establish general tight bounds for this indicator. For very small purities, P<1/N^2, the upper and lower bounds converge, which allows to quantify accurately the departure from perfectly bosonic behavior, for any state of many composite bosons.

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@article{arxiv.1208.5985,
  title  = {Bosonic behavior of entangled fermions},
  author = {Malte C. Tichy and Peter Alexander Bouvrie and Klaus Mølmer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.5985},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

9 pages, 5 figures, accepted by PRA