Lateral Effects in Fermion Antibunching

TL;DR

This paper investigates how lateral effects influence fermion antibunching in free fermion beams, using a comprehensive quantum field-theoretical model that considers source and detector sizes and temperature.

Contribution

It introduces a 3D quantum field-theoretical framework to analyze lateral effects in fermion antibunching, accounting for source and detector sizes and temperature.

Findings

Lateral effects significantly impact antibunching visibility.

Source size and temperature alter the antibunching behavior.

The model provides detailed predictions for experimental setups.

Abstract

Lateral effects are analyzed in the antibunching of a beam of free non-interacting fermions. The emission of particles from a source is dynamically described in a 3D full quantum field-theoretical framework. The size of the source and the detectors, as well as the temperature of the source are taken into account and the behavior of the visibility is scrutinized as a function of these parameters.