title: Electron entanglement via a quantum dot.
abstract: This Letter presents a method of electron entanglement generation. The system under consideration is a single-level quantum dot with one input and two output leads. The leads are arranged such that the dot is empty, single-electron tunneling is suppressed by energy conservation, and two-electron virtual cotunneling is allowed. Such a configuration effectively filters the singlet-state portion of a two-electron input, yielding a nonlocal spin-singlet state at the output leads. Coulomb interaction mediates the entanglement generation, and, in its absence, the singlet state vanishes. This approach is a four-wave mixing process analogous to the photon entanglement generated by a chi((3)) parametric amplifier.
authors.affiliation: Quantum Entanglement Project, ICORP, JST, E. L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA. woliver@stanford.edu
authors.forename: W D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Oliver
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
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authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamamoto