title: Impurity scattering induced entanglement of ballistic electrons.
abstract: We show how entanglement between two conduction electrons is generated in the presence of a localized magnetic impurity embedded in an otherwise ballistic conductor of special geometry. This process is a generalization of beam-splitter mediated entanglement generation schemes with a localized spin placed at the site of the beam splitter. Our entangling scheme is unconditional and robust to randomness of the initial state of the impurity. The entangled state generated manifests itself in noise reduction of spin-dependent currents.
authors.affiliation: Center for Quantum Computation, University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, OX1 3PU Oxford, United Kingdom. a.costa@qubit.org
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bose