Enhancement of Many-Body Quantum Interference in Chaotic Bosonic Systems: The Role of Symmetry and Dynamics

Peter Schlagheck1, Denis Ullmo2, Juan Diego Urbina3

  • 1CESAM Research Unit, University of Liege, 4000 Liège, Belgium.

Physical Review Letters
|December 7, 2019
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