Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 050401 (2002) [4 pages]Generic Entanglement Generation, Quantum Statistics, and ComplementarityReceived 8 March 2001; revised 4 September 2001; published 23 January 2002 A general and an arbitrarily efficient scheme for entangling the spins (or any spinlike degree of freedom) of two independent uncorrelated identical particles by a combination of two particle interferometry and which way detection is formulated. It is shown that the same setup could be used to identify the quantum statistics of the incident particles from either the sign or the magnitude of measured spin correlations. Our setup also exhibits a curious complementarity between particle distinguishability and the amount of generated entanglement. © 2002 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.050401
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.050401
PACS:
03.65.Ud, 03.67.-a, 03.65.Ta
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