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Title: Quantum walk of two anyons across a statistical boundary

Abstract: We model a quantum walk of identical particles that can change their exchange statistics by hopping across a domain wall in a 1D lattice. Such a "statistical boundary" is transparent to single particles and affects the dynamics only by swapping multiple particles arriving together. We find that the two-particle interference is dramatically altered by reflections of these bunched waves at the interface, producing strong measurable asymmetries. Depending on the phases on the two sides, a bunched wavepacket can get completely reflected or split into a superposition of a reflected wave and an antibunched wave. This leads to striking dynamics with two domain walls, where bunched waves can get trapped in between or fragment into multiple correlated single-particle wavepackets. These findings can be realized with density-dependent hopping in present-day atomic setups and open up a new paradigm of intrinsically many-body phenomena at statistical boundaries.
Comments: Accepted version: 4 pages, 7 figures + supplement
Subjects: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
Journal reference: Phys. Rev. Research 4, L012007 (2022)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.L012007
Cite as: arXiv:2012.03977 [cond-mat.quant-gas]
  (or arXiv:2012.03977v2 [cond-mat.quant-gas] for this version)

Submission history

From: Liam L.H. Lau [view email]
[v1] Mon, 7 Dec 2020 19:00:11 GMT (913kb,D)
[v2] Mon, 20 Dec 2021 19:28:48 GMT (914kb,D)

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