Entangled quantum currents in distant mesoscopic Josephson junctions
arXiv:cond-mat/0411439 · doi:10.1088/0953-8984/16/50/008
Abstract
Two mesoscopic SQUID rings which are far from each other, are considered. A source of two-mode nonclassical microwaves irradiates the two rings with correlated photons. The Josephson currents are in this case quantum mechanical operators, and their expectation values with respect to the density matrix of the microwaves, yield the experimentally observed currents. Classically correlated (separable) and quantum mechanically correlated (entangled) microwaves are considered, and their effect on the Josephson currents is quantified. Results for two different examples that involve microwaves in number states and coherent states are derived. It is shown that the quantum statistics of the tunnelling electron pairs through the Josephson junctions in the two rings, are correlated.
8 pages, 6 figures, two-column format; to appear in J. Phys.: Condens. Matt
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