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EPL
Volume 99, Number 1, July 2012
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| Article Number | 14001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/99/14001 | |
| Published online | 11 July 2012 | |
Bunching and anti-bunching of localised particles in disordered media
Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg - Hermann Herder Straße 3, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany, EU
Received: 5 April 2012
Accepted: 12 June 2012
We consider pairs of non-interacting quantum particles transmitted through a disordered medium, with emphasis on the role of their quantum statistics. It is shown that particle-number correlations measured in transmission are strikingly sensitive to the quantum nature of the particles when they undergo Anderson localisation, due to bosonic bunching and fermionic anti-bunching in the scattering channels of the medium. The case of distinguishable particles is also discussed.
PACS: 42.25.Dd – Wave propagation in random media / 42.50.-p – Quantum optics / 72.15.Rn – Localization effects (Anderson or weak localization)
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