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Indistinguishable particles and their correlations in non-Hermitian lattices

Markus Gräfe, René Heilmann, Robert Keil, Toni Eichelkraut, Matthias Heinrich, Stefan Nolte, Alexander Szameit

Published Jan 1, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

A novel approach to investigate the dynamics of indistinguishable particles in non-Hermitian lattice systems exhibiting loss is presented. Especially analyzed are two-particle dynamics in quasi-parity-time-symmetric systems for a variety of input states.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2013.jth2a.74

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