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Entanglement-induced electron coherence in a mesoscopic ring with two magnetic impurities
Francesco CiccarelloG. Massimo PalmaMichelangelo Zarconesubject
PhysicsCoupling constantINTERFERENCEQuantum PhysicsMesoscopic physicsQuantum decoherenceCondensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale PhysicsSpinsCondensed matter physicsScatteringTRANSMISSIONFOS: Physical sciencesQuantum entanglementElectronQuantum PhysicsQUANTUM WAVE-GUIDECondensed Matter PhysicsCondensed Matter::Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effecteffects | decay | survival probabilityElectronic Optical and Magnetic MaterialsMesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)SCATTERINGCondensed Matter::Strongly Correlated ElectronsQuantum Physics (quant-ph)Electron scatteringdescription
We investigate the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interference pattern in the electron transmission through a mesoscopic ring in which two identical non-interacting magnetic impurities are embedded. Adopting a quantum waveguide theory, we derive the exact transmission probability amplitudes and study the influence of maximally entangled states of the impurity spins on the electron transmittivity interference pattern. For suitable electron wave vectors, we show that the amplitude of AB oscillations in the absence of impurities is in fact not reduced within a wide range of the electron-impurity coupling constant when the maximally entangled singlet state is prepared. Such state is thus able to inhibit the usual electron decoherence due to scattering by magnetic impurities. We also show how this maximally entangled state of the impurity spins can be generated via electron scattering.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-12-02 |