First-detection-time statistics in many-body quantum transport

Abstract

We study the transport of many partially distinguishable and possibly interacting particles under the action of repeated projective measurements on a target space and investigate how the particles' interference affects the mean first detection time. We contrast the detection of exactly $n$ versus at least $n$ particles, explain divergences in the mean first detection time through spectral properties of the generating evolution operator, and illustrate our findings by an example.

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