Indistinguishability Theory for Identical Particles with Invariant Degrees of Freedom

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14428v2
• Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:53:02 GMT
• Title: Indistinguishability Theory for Identical Particles with Invariant Degrees of Freedom
• Abstract summary: We give the explicit form of the visible state in terms of the indistinguishability function.<n>The indistinguishability function on the symmetric group accounts for the permutation symmetry of the dynamically invariant label state.<n>It is shown that the indistinguishability of single particles emitted independently from a stable source is completely characterized by the projective measures on the symmetry spectrum.
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• Abstract: Identical particles have dynamically invariant labels in all setups where their degrees of freedom can be partitioned into two parts, which we call internal and visible, with the visible part subject to unitary evolution, while the dynamically invariant internal part accounts for the partial distinguishability of particles. We give the explicit form of the visible state in terms of the indistinguishability function, generalizing the standard symmetrization/antisymmetrization postulate for bosons/fermions with internal modes. The indistinguishability function on the symmetric group accounts for the permutation symmetry of the dynamically invariant label state and gives a self-contained description of the symmetry spectrum of the visible state. It is shown that the indistinguishability of single particles emitted independently from a stable source is completely characterized by the projective measures on the symmetry spectrum. We reveal a hierarchy of successive upper bounds on the projective measure of indistinguishability in terms of marginal projective measures. We point out an experimentally feasible way to get the upper bounds on the indistinguishability of an arbitrarily large number of single photons by direct experimental readout of their marginal projective measures. We also analyze the indistinguishability of coherent superpositions and convex mixtures and resolve a recently posed problem.

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