Generating distributed entanglement from electron currents
Abstract
Several recent experiments have demonstrated the viability of a passive device that can generate spin-entangled currents in two separate leads. However, manipulation and measurement of individual flying qubits in a solid state system has yet to be achieved. This is particularly difficult when a macroscopic number of these indistinguishable qubits are present. In order to access such an entangled current resource, we therefore show how to use it to generate distributed, static entanglement. The spatial separation between the entangled static pair can be much higher than that achieved by only exploiting the tunnelling effects between quantum dots. Our device is completely passive, and requires only weak Coulomb interactions between static and flying spins. We show that the entanglement generated is robust to decoherence for large enough currents.
Citation
Ping , Y , Kolli , A , Jefferson , J H & Lovett , B W 2011 , ' Generating distributed entanglement from electron currents ' , New Journal of Physics , vol. 13 , 103004 . https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/13/10/103004
Publication
New Journal of Physics
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1367-2630Type
Journal article
Rights
© 2011 IOP Publishing and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. Yuting Ping et al 2011 New J. Phys. 13 103004. Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.
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This work is partially supported by a Royal Society University Research FellowshipCollections
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