Emission of polarization-entangled microwave photons from a pair of quantum dots

Björn Trauzettel

Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, University of Leiden, P.O. Box 9506, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands

We describe a mechanism for the production of polarization-entangled microwaves using intraband transitions in a pair of quantum dots. This proposal relies neither on spin-orbit coupling nor on control over electron-electron interactions. The quantum correlation of microwave polarizations is obtained from orbital degrees of freedom in an external magnetic field. We calculate the concurrence of emitted microwave photon pairs and show that a maximally entangled Bell pair is, for instance, obtained in the limit of weak interdot coupling.

Reference:
C. Emary, B. Trauzettel, and C.W.J. Beenakker, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 127401 (2005).

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