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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

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

This letter is devoted to the optimization of the Cooper pair splitting efficiency in a Y-shaped junction. The latter consists of two quantum dots, one superconducting and two normal leads. We tailor the bias in the two normal leads such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-13 K. J. Pototzky , E. K. U. Gross

For the three-terminal NSN device with single-mode normal terminals and without Coulomb blockade, we propose the interpretation of charge transfer process which allows us to consistently characterize the device operation as that of a Cooper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-09 E. S. Tikhonov , V. S. Khrapai

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 quantum entanglement between two qubits is crucial for applications in the quantum communication. After the entanglement of photons was experimentally realized, much effort has been taken to exploit the entangled electrons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-13 Ying-Tao Zhang , Xinzhou Deng , Qing-Feng Sun , Zhenhua Qiao

The two electrons of a Cooper pair in a conventional superconductor form a singlet and therefore a maximally entangled state. Recently, it was demonstrated that the two particles can be extracted from the superconductor into two spatially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-10 J. Schindele , A. Baumgartner , C. Schönenberger

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

Splitting of Cooper pairs has recently been realized experimentally for s-wave Cooper pairs. A split Cooper pair represents an entangled two-electron pair state which has possible application in on-chip quantum computation. Likewise the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-18 H. Soller , A. Komnik

Cooper pair splitters hold utility as a platform for investigating the entanglement of electrons in Cooper pairs, but probing splitters with voltage-biased Ohmic contacts prevents the retention of electrons from split pairs since they can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Damaz de Jong , Christian G. Prosko , Lin Han , Filip K. Malinowski , Yu Liu , Leo P. Kouwenhoven , Wolfgang Pfaff

We theoretically study the spin-resolved subgap transport properties of a Cooper pair splitter based on a triple quantum dot attached to superconducting and ferromagnetic leads. Using the Keldysh Green's function formalism, we analyze the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 K. Bocian , W. Rudzinski , I. Weymann

We report on conductance measurements in carbon nanotube based double quantum dots connected to two normal electrodes and a central superconducting finger. By operating our devices as beam splitters, we provide evidence for Crossed Andreev…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 L. G. Herrmann , F. Portier , P. Roche , A. Levy Yeyati , T. Kontos , C. Strunk

We investigate the generation of an entangled electron pair emerging from a system composed of two quantum dots attached to a superconductor Cooper pair beam splitter. We take into account three processes: Crossed Andreev Reflection,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 B. Sharmila , F. M. Souza , H. M. Vasconcelos , L. Sanz

We analyze microscopically a Cooper pair splitting device in which a central superconducting lead is connected to two weakly coupled normal leads through a carbon nanotube. We determine the splitting efficiency at resonance in terms of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 P. Burset , W. J. Herrera , A. Levy Yeyati

Split Cooper pair is a natural source for entangled electrons which is a basic ingredient for quantum information in solid state. We report an experiment on a superconductor-graphene double quantum dot (QD) system, in which we observe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-11 Z. B. Tan , D. Cox , T. Nieminen , P. Lähteenmäki , D. Golubev , G. B. Lesovik , P. J. Hakonen

Cooper pairs in the superconductor are a natural source of spin entanglement. The existing proposals of the Cooper pair splitter can only realize a low efficiency of entanglement production, and its size is constrained by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-06 Wei Chen , D. N. Shi , D. Y. Xing

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

We show how superconductors can be used to couple, initialize, and read out spatially separated spin qubits. When two single-electron quantum dots are tunnel coupled to the same superconductor, the singlet component of the two-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-05 Martin Leijnse , Karsten Flensberg

Hybrid quantum dot-oscillator systems have become attractive platforms to inspect quantum coherence effects at the nanoscale. Here, we investigate a Cooper-pair splitter setup consisting of two quantum dots, each linearly coupled to a local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Mattia Mantovani , Wolfgang Belzig , Gianluca Rastelli , Robert Hussein

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.…

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