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Andreev tunneling, Coulomb blockade, and resonant transport of nonlocal spin-entangled electrons
JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)
 
ID 119969
Author(s) Recher, P; Sukhorukov, EV; Loss, D
Author(s) at UniBasel Loss, Daniel
Year 2001
Title Andreev tunneling, Coulomb blockade, and resonant transport of nonlocal spin-entangled electrons
Journal Physical Review B
Volume 63
Number 16
Pages / Article-Number 165314
Abstract

We propose and analyze a spin-entangler for electrons based on an s-wave superconductor coupled to two quantum dots, each of which is coupled to normal Fermi leads. We show that in the presence of a voltage bias and in the Coulomb blockade regime two correlated electrons provided by the Andreev process can coherently tunnel from the superconductor via different dots into different leads. The spin singlet coming from the Cooper pair remains preserved in this process, and the setup provides a source of mobile and nonlocal spin-entangled electrons. The transport current is calculated and shown to be dominated by a two-particle Breit-Wigner resonance that allows the injection of two spin-entangled electrons into different leads at exactly the same orbital energy, which is a crucial requirement for the detection of spin entanglement via noise measurements. The coherent tunneling of both electrons into the same lead is suppressed by the on-site Coulomb repulsion and/or the superconducting gap, while the tunneling into different leads is suppressed through the initial separation of the tunneling electrons. In the regime of interest the particle-hole excitations of the leads are shown to be negligible. The Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in the current are shown to contain single- and two-electron periods with amplitudes that both vanish with increasing Coulomb repulsion albeit differently fast.

Publisher American Institute of Physics
ISSN/ISBN 0163-1829
edoc-URL http://edoc.unibas.ch/dok/A5254731
Full Text on edoc No
Digital Object Identifier DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.63.165314
ISI-Number WOS:000168343400064
Document type (ISI) Article
 
   

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