Intrinsic Indistinguishability of Identical Particles and How Particle Labels Affect It

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.29312v1
• Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2026 10:13:42 GMT
• Title: Intrinsic Indistinguishability of Identical Particles and How Particle Labels Affect It
• Abstract summary: We investigate indistinguishability of identical bosons and fermions undergoing arbitrary evolutions of their visible degrees of freedom.<n>We reveal a strikingly counterintuitive effect: introducing additional particle label states can increase the multiparticle indistinguishability of identical particles.
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• Abstract: We investigate indistinguishability of identical bosons and fermions undergoing arbitrary particle-number-preserving evolutions of their visible degrees of freedom. For the projective indistinguishability measure, defined by the projection of the visible state onto the symmetric/anti-symmetric subspace, we derive an equivalent expression in terms of the dynamically invariant internal state. We further generalize the textbook symmetrization/anti-symmetrization framework for bosons and fermions to arbitrary partial distinguishability by deriving an explicit reconstruction formula for the multiparticle visible state in terms of the indistinguishability function encoding the dynamical invariants. We give complete characterization of the class-functions of indistinguishability by projective measures on generalized symmetries. Finally, we reveal a strikingly counterintuitive effect: introducing additional particle label states can increase the multiparticle indistinguishability of identical particles. The effect originates from the cancellation of collective multiparticle phases.

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