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A superconductor is a natural source of spin-entangled spatially separated electron pairs. Although the first Cooper-pair splitter devices have been realized recently, an experimental confirmation of the spin state and the entanglement of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-19 Zoltán Scherübl , András Pályi , Szabolcs Csonka

The Cooper-pair transistor (CPT), a small superconducting island enclosed between two Josephson weak links, is the atomic building block of various superconducting quantum circuits. Utilizing gate-tunable semiconductor channels as weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Alex Proutski , Dominique Laroche , Bas van 't Hooft , Peter Krogstrup , Jesper Nygård , Leo P. Kouwenhoven , Attila Geresdi

There has been strong interest recently in the so-called Cooper pair density wave, subsequent to the proposition that such a state occurs in the hole-doped cuprate superconductors. As of now there is no convincing demonstration of such a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-25 Sumit Mazumdar , R. Torsten Clay

We simulated the radiative response of the cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) coupled to the double quantum dot Cooper pair splitter and analyzed its spectral dependence to get insight into dynamics of the Cooper pair transfers. The model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-05 Bogdan R. Bułka

Superconductivity can be understood in terms of a phase transition from an uncorrelated electron gas to a condensate of Cooper pairs in which the relative phases of the constituent electrons are coherent over macroscopic length scales. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-03 Alberto Ronzani , Carles Altimiras , Sophie D'Ambrosio , Pauli Virtanen , Francesco Giazotto

We study the coherence properties of a trapped two-component gas of fermionic atoms below the BCS critical temperature. We propose an optical method to investigate the Cooper-pair coherence across different regions of the superfluid.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gh. -S. Paraoanu , M. Rodriguez , P. Torma

We analyse the quantum dynamics of a micromechanical resonator capacitively coupled to a Cooper box. With appropriate quantum state control of the Cooper box, the resonator can be driven into a superposition of spatially separated states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. D. Armour , M. P. Blencowe , K. C. Schwab

A Cooper pair splitter consists of a central superconducting contact, S, from which electrons are injected into two parallel, spatially separated quantum dots (QDs). This geometry and electron interactions can lead to correlated electrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-05 G. Fülöp , S. d'Hollosy , A. Baumgartner , P. Makk , V. A. Guzenko , M. H. Madsen , J. Nygård , C. Schönenberger , S. Csonka

In most naturally occurring superconductors, electrons with opposite spins are paired up to form Cooper pairs. This includes both conventional $s$-wave superconductors such as aluminum as well as high-$T_\text{c}$, $d$-wave superconductors.…

Quantum coherence in solid-state systems has been demonstrated in superconducting circuits and in semiconductor quantum dots. This has paved the way to investigate solid-state systems for quantum information processing with the potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 T. Frey , P. J. Leek , M. Beck , A. Blais , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , A. Wallraff

Coherent coupling between spatially separated systems has long been explored as a necessary requirement for quantum information and cryptography. Recent discoveries suggest such phenomena appear in a much wider range of processes, including…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-03 Jonathan O Tollerud , Christopher R Hall , Jeffrey A Davis

Controlled generation and detection of quantum entanglement between spatially separated particles constitute an essential prerequisite both for testing the foundations of quantum mechanics and for realizing future quantum technologies.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 Antti Ranni , Fredrik Brange , Elsa T. Mannila , Christian Flindt , Ville F. Maisi

We describe a Josephson device composed of two superconductors separated by two interacting quantum dots in parallel, as a probe for Cooper pair splitting. In addition to sequential tunneling of electrons through each dot, an additional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 R. Jacquet , J. Rech , T. Jonckheere , A. Zazunov , T. Martin

Semiconductor quantum dots are an attractive platform for the realisation of quantum processors. To achieve long-range coupling between them, quantum dots have been integrated into microwave cavities. However, it has been shown that their…

Cooper pair splitters are promising candidates for generating spin-entangled electrons. However, the splitting of Cooper pairs is a random and noisy process, which hinders further synchronized operations on the entangled electrons. To…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-02 Fredrik Brange , Kacper Prech , Christian Flindt

The Cooper pair is generally analyzed in momentum space, but its real-space structure also follows directly from the BCS theory. It is shown here that this leads to a spherically symmetrical quasi-atomic wavefunction, with an identical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Alan M. Kadin

Entanglement, being at the heart of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox, is a necessary ingredient in processing quantum information. Cooper pairs in superconductors - being composites of two fully entangled electrons - can be split…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Anindya Das , Yuval Ronen , Moty Heiblum , Diana Mahalu , Andrey V. Kretinin , Hadas Shtrikman

The control of nonlocal entanglement in solid state systems is a crucial ingredient of quantum technologies. We investigate a Cooper-pair splitter based on a double quantum dot realised in a semiconducting nanowire. In the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-20 Robert Hussein , Alessandro Braggio , Michele Governale

I present a simple analytical model describing the normal state of a superconductor with a pseudogap in the density of states, such as in underdoped cuprates. In nearly two-dimensional systems, where the superconducting transition…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 O. Tchernyshyov

We propose a scheme involving a Cooper pair transistor (CPT) embedded in a superconducting microwave cavity, where the CPT serves as a charge tunable quantum inductor to facilitate ultra-strong coupling between photons in the cavity and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-13 A. J. Rimberg , M. P. Blencowe , A. D. Armour , P. D. Nation