Proposal for an on-demand source of polarized electrons into the edges of a topological insulator
arXiv:1307.1198 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.88.235412
Abstract
We propose a device that allows for the emission of pairs of spin-polarized electrons into the edge-states of a two dimensional topological insulator. Charge and spin emission is achieved using a periodically driven quantum dot weakly coupled to the edge states of the host topological insulator. We present calculations of the emitted time-dependent charge and spin currents of such a dynamical scatterer using the Floquet scattering matrix approach. Experimental signatures of spin-polarized two-particle emission can be found in noise measurements. Here a new form of noise suppression, named --antibunching, is introduced. Additionally, we propose a set-up in which entanglement of the emitted electrons is generated. This entanglement is based on a post-selection procedure and becomes manifest in a violation of a Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality.
10 pages + 7 figures
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