Electron Fabry-Perot interferometer with two entangled magnetic impurities

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作者
Ciccarello, Francesco
Palma, G. Massimo
Zarcone, Michelangelo
Omar, Yasser
Vieira, Vitor R.
机构
[1] Univ Palermo, CNISM, Dipartimento Fis Tecnol Relat, I-90128 Palermo, Italy
[2] Univ Palermo, CNR, NEST INFM, Dipartimento Sci Fisiche & Astronom, I-90123 Palermo, Italy
[3] Inst Telecommun, SQIG, P-1049001 Lisbon, Portugal
[4] Univ Tecn Lisboa, CEMAPRE, ISEG, P-1200781 Lisbon, Portugal
[5] Inst Super Tecn, CFIF, Dept Phys, P-1049001 Lisbon, Portugal
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10.1088/1751-8113/40/28/S09
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We consider a one-dimensional (1D) wire along which single conduction electrons can propagate in the presence of two spin-1/2 magnetic impurities. The electron may be scattered by each impurity via a contact-exchange interaction and thus a spin-flip generally occurs at each scattering event. Adopting a quantumwaveguide theory approach, we derive the stationary states of the system at all orders in the electron-impurity exchange coupling constant. This allows us to investigate electron transmission for arbitrary initial states of the two impurity spins. We show that for suitable electron wave vectors, the triplet and singlet maximally entangled spin states of the impurities can respectively largely inhibit the electron transport or make the wire completely transparent for any electron spin state. In the latter case, a resonance condition can always be found, representing an anomalous behaviour compared to typical decoherence induced by magnetic impurities. We provide an explanation for these phenomena in terms of the Hamiltonian symmetries. Finally, a scheme to generate maximally entangled spin states of the two impurities via electron scattering is proposed.
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页码:7993 / 8008
页数:16
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