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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

We report on the fabrication and electrical characterization of an InAs double - nanowire (NW) device consisting of two closely placed parallel NWs coupled to a common superconducting electrode on one side and individual normal metal leads…

Thermoelectric effect is exploited to optimize the Cooper pair splitting efficiency in a Y-shaped junction, which consists of two normal leads coupled to an $s$-wave superconductor via double noninteracting quantum dots. Here, utilizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Zhan Cao , Tie-Feng Fang , Lin Li , Hong-Gang Luo

Cooper pair splitting (CPS) can induce non-local correlation between two normal conductors coupling to a superconductor. CPS into a double one-dimensional electron gas is an appropriate platform for extracting large amount of entangled…

The generation of spin-entangled electrons is an important prerequisite for future solid-state quantum technologies. Cooper pairs in a superconductor can be split into separate electrons in a spin-singlet state, however, detecting their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-23 Minh Tam , Christian Flindt , Fredrik Brange

Based on the Bardeen Cooper Schrieffer (BCS) theory of superconductivity, the coherent splitting of Cooper pairs from a superconductor to two spatially separated quantum dots has been predicted to generate nonlocal pairs of entangled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 Simon E. Nigg , Rakesh P. Tiwari , Stefan Walter , Thomas L. Schmidt

This article discusses how to demonstrate the entanglement of the split Cooper pairs produced in a double-quantum-dot based Cooper pair beam splitter (CPS), by performing the microwave spectroscopy of the CPS. More precisely, one can study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-12 Audrey Cottet

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.…

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 I. A. Sadovskyy , G. B. Lesovik , V. M. Vinokur

A weakly biased normal-metal-superconductor junction is considered as a potential device injecting entangled pairs of quasi-particles into a normal-metal lead. The two-particle states arise from Cooper pairs decaying into the normal lead…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gordey B. Lesovik , Thierry Martin , Gianni Blatter

Electron waiting times are an important concept in the analysis of quantum transport in nano-scale conductors. Here we show that the statistics of electron waiting times can be used to characterize Cooper pair splitters that create…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-13 Nicklas Walldorf , Ciprian Padurariu , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Christian Flindt

We consider the production of mobile and nonlocal pairwise spin-entangled electrons from tunneling of a BCS-superconductor (SC) to two normal Fermi liquid leads. The necessary mechanism to separate the two electrons coming from the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrik Recher , Daniel Loss

We investigate the effect of Cooper pair injection in shifting biexciton energy level of low-symmetry (C2v) quantum dots (QDs) exhibiting nontrivial fine structure splitting. Coupling QDs to the superconducting coherent state forms extra…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-10 Milad Khoshnegar , A. Hamed Majedi

We model a superconducting p-n junction in which the n- and the p-sides are contacted through two optical quantum dots (QDs), each embedded into a photonic nanocavity. Whenever a Cooper pair is transferred from the n-side to the p-side, two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Alexander Schroer , Patrik Recher

A Cooper pair splitter consists of two quantum dots side-coupled to a conventional superconductor. Usually, the quantum dots are assumed to have a large charging energy compared to the superconducting gap, in order to suppress processes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-07 Ehud Amitai , Rakesh P. Tiwari , Stefan Walter , Thomas L. Schmidt , Simon E. Nigg

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

We measure an aluminum superconducting double quantum dot and find that its electrical impedance, specifically its quantum capacitance, depends on whether or not it contains a single broken Cooper pair. In this way we are able to observe,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-17 N. J. Lambert , M. Edwards , A. A. Esmail , F. A. Pollock , S. D. Barrett , B. W. Lovett , A. J. Ferguson

Transportation of Cooper-pairs by a movable single Cooper-pair-box placed between two remote superconductors is shown to establish coherent coupling between them. This coupling is due to entanglement of the movable box with the leads and is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Isacsson , L. Y. Gorelik , R. I. Shekhter , Y. M. Galperin , M. Jonson

Recent experiments have observed Cooper pair splitting in quantum dots coupled to superconductors, and efficient schemes for controlling and timing the splitting process are now called for. Here, we propose and analyze an adiabatic Cooper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-09 Fredrik Brange , Riya Baruah , Christian Flindt

Superconducting devices, based on the Cooper pairing of electrons, play an important role in existing and emergent technologies, ranging from radiation detectors to quantum computers. Their performance is limited by spurious quasiparticle…