Tuesday, March 26, 2013

1303.6196 (Bernd Braunecker et al.)

Entanglement detection from conductance measurements in carbon nanotube
Cooper pair splitters
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Bernd Braunecker, Pablo Burset, Alfredo Levy Yeyati
Spin-orbit interaction provides a spin filtering effect in carbon nanotube based Cooper pair splitters that allows to determine spin correlators directly from current measurements. The spin filtering axes are tunable by a global external magnetic field. By a bending of the nanotube the filtering axes on both sides of the Cooper pair splitter become sufficiently different that a test of entanglement of the injected Cooper pairs through the Bell inequality can be implemented. This implementation does not require noise measurements, supports imperfect splitting efficiency and disorder, and does not demand a full knowledge of the spin-orbit strength. Using a microscopic calculation we demonstrate that entanglement detection by violation of the Bell inequality is within the reach of current experimental setups.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6196

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