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Unitary limit in crossed Andreev transport

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-10-12 v3 Superconductivity Quantum Physics

Abstract

One of the most promising approaches of generating spin- and energy-entangled electron pairs is splitting a Cooper pair into the metal through spatially separated terminals. Utilizing hybrid systems with the energy-dependent barriers at the superconductor-normal metal interfaces, one can achieve practically 100% efficiency outcome of entangled electrons. We investigate minimalistic one-dimensional model comprising a superconductor and two metallic leads and derive an expression for an electron-to-hole transmission probability as a measure of splitting efficiency. We find the conditions for achieving 100% efficiency and present analytical results for the differential conductance and differential noise.

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@article{arxiv.1412.8145,
  title  = {Unitary limit in crossed Andreev transport},
  author = {I. A. Sadovskyy and G. B. Lesovik and V. M. Vinokur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.8145},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages, 6 figures; minor corrections