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Two-particle Kapitza-Dirac diffraction

Quantum Physics 2015-05-20 v1

Abstract

We extend the study of Kapitza-Dirac diffraction to the case of two-particle systems. Due to the exchange effects the shape and visibility of the two-particle detection patterns show important differences for identical and distinguishable particles. We also identify a novel quantum statistics effect present in momentum space for some values of the initial particle momenta, which is associated with different numbers of photon absorptions compatible with the final momenta.

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@article{arxiv.1009.3489,
  title  = {Two-particle Kapitza-Dirac diffraction},
  author = {Pedro Sancho},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.3489},
  year   = {2015}
}

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