Entanglement-induced electron coherence in a mesoscopic ring with two magnetic impurities

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作者
Ciccarello, Francesco
Palma, G. Massimo
Zarcone, Michelangelo
机构
[1] Univ Palermo, CNISM, I-90128 Palermo, Italy
[2] Univ Palermo, Dipartimento Fis & Tecnol Relat, I-90128 Palermo, Italy
[3] Univ Palermo, CNR, INFM, NEST, I-90123 Palermo, Italy
[4] Univ Palermo, Dipartimento Fis & Astron, I-90123 Palermo, Italy
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10.1103/PhysRevB.75.205415
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T [工业技术];
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We investigate the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interference pattern in the electron transmission through a mesoscopic ring in which two identical noninteracting 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.
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