Counting statistics for entangled electrons
- 1 February 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 65 (7) , 075317
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.65.075317
Abstract
The counting statistics (CS) for charges passing through a coherent conductor comprise the most general quantity that characterizes electronic transport. The CS depend not only on the transport properties of the conductor, but also on the correlations among particles which compose the incident beam. In this paper we present general results for the CS of entangled electron pairs traversing a beam splitter, and we show that the probability that Q charges have passed is not binomial, as in the uncorrelated case, but is symmetric with respect to the average transferred charge. We furthermore consider the joint probability for transmitted charges of a given spin, and we show that the signature of entanglement distinctly appears in a correlation which is not present for a nonentangled case.Keywords
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