Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2002-05-13
Phys. Rev. A 67, 024301 (2003) [eprint contains a post-publication correction]
Physics
Quantum Physics
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Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.67.024301
We consider entanglement in a system of fixed number of identical particles. Since any operation should be symmetrized over all the identical particles and there is the precondition that the spatial wave functions overlap, the meaning of identical-particle entanglement is fundamentally different from that of distinguishable particles. The identical-particle counterpart of the Schmidt basis is shown to be the single-particle basis in which the one-particle reduced density matrix is diagonal. But it does not play a special role in the issue of entanglement, which depends on the single-particle basis chosen. The nonfactorization due to (anti)symmetrization is naturally excluded by using the (anti)symmetrized basis or, equivalently, the particle number representation. The natural degrees of freedom in quantifying the identical-particle entanglement in a chosen single-particle basis are occupation numbers of different single particle basis states. The entanglement between effectively distinguishable spins is shown to be a special case of the occupation-number entanglement.
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