Two-particle superposition effects in two-slit interference
arXiv:2203.10822 · doi:10.1140/epjd/s10053-022-00374-x
Abstract
Entanglement can modify the interference patterns of multi-particle systems. We analyse, using the path integral formalism, a novel example of multi-particle interference and some unexplored aspects of this phenomenon by considering the two-slit arrangement with two distinguishable particles in a superposition state. The two components of entanglement, multiplicity of multi-particle terms and their coherence, can be studied separately by comparing the patterns of product, mixed and superposition states. This suggests a scheme to detect multi-particle superposition in some favourable cases. Moreover, the dependence of the effect on the entanglement degree, measured by the Schmidt number, is not a monotone.
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