Pairing Correlations and Separability Conditions in Identical Particle Systems

Abstract

Quantum correlations and entanglement in identical-particle systems have been a puzzling question which has attracted vast interest and widely different approaches. A novel approach is introduced by Kraus \emph{et al.}, [Phys. Rev. A \textbf{79}, 012306 (2009)] based on pairing correlations in fermionic systems and the use of witness formalism to detect pairing. In this contribution, this approach has been extended to bosonic systems and separability bounds based on pairing correlations for fermions and bosons have been obtained. A two-particle annihilation operator is used for constructing a two-particle observable as a candidate witness. Two different types of separability definition is introduced for bosonic systems and the separability bounds associated with each type are discussed.