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Published in Physical Review, Volume A, Issue 69, June 22, 2004.
5 pages.
Copyright © 2004 American Physical Society. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Physical Society. The following article appeared in Physical Review and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.69.063614.
NOTE: At the time of publication, the author Thomas Gutierrez was not yet affiliated with Cal Poly.
Abstract
A pairwise correlation function in relative momentum space is discussed as a tool to characterize the properties of an incoherent source of noninteracting Abelian anyons. This is analogous to the Hanbury-Brown Twiss effect for particles with fractional statistics in two dimensions. In particular, using a flux tube model for anyons, the effects of source shape and quantum statistics on a two-particle correlation function are examined. Such a tool may prove useful in the context of quantum computing and other experimental applications where studying anyon sources are of interest.
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Physics
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