Generating spin-entangled electron pairs in normal conductors using voltage pulses
Abstract
We suggest an operating scheme for the deliberate generation of spin-entangled electron pairs in a normal-metal mesoscopic structure with fork geometry. Voltage pulses with associated Faraday flux equal to one flux unit Φ0=hc/e drive individual singlet pairs of electrons toward the beam splitter. The spin-entangled pair is created through a post-selection in the two branches of the fork. We analyze the appearance of entanglement in a Bell inequality test formulated in terms of the number of transmitted electrons with a given spin polarization.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- December 2005
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0504583
- Bibcode:
- 2005PhRvB..72x5314L
- Keywords:
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- 73.23.-b;
- 03.67.Mn;
- 05.30.Fk;
- 05.60.Gg;
- Electronic transport in mesoscopic systems;
- Entanglement production characterization and manipulation;
- Fermion systems and electron gas;
- Quantum transport;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 8 pages, 1 figure