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Past exam of the theoretical physics II course of the University of Cambridge 2013 Paper 1 4 b Solution by
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Under the Gaussian assumption, , so the coincident normally ordered density correlation is . For a homogeneous nonzero density , the large-separation limit is , givingThese coincident-point bunching factors describe enhanced bosonic coincidence and excluded same-component fermionic coincidence. More generally the density-normalized ratio tends to one at large separation. The unnormalized ratio printed in the paper additionally needs matching nonzero local and remote densities; alone does not ensure this. For a bosonic Fock product state, the local normalized value instead is , and even a large-separation factorization must be checked separately.
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