Distinguishability-induced many-body decoherence

Abstract

We show that many-body interference (MBI) phenomena are exponentially suppressed in the particle number, if only the identical quantum objects brought to interference acquire a finite level of distinguishability through statistical mixing of some internal, unobserved degrees of freedom. We discuss consequences for cold atom and photonic circuitry experiments.

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