Two-particle Kapitza-Dirac diffraction

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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• Camparison of the Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect for bosons and fermions
• Identical two-particle interferometry in diffraction gratings

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