Entanglement-induced electron coherence in a mesoscopic ring with two magnetic impurities

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates how maximally entangled magnetic impurities in a mesoscopic ring can preserve electron coherence and influence Aharonov-Bohm interference patterns, revealing potential for controlling decoherence in quantum systems.

Contribution

It provides an exact theoretical analysis of electron transmission in a mesoscopic ring with entangled magnetic impurities, showing how entanglement can inhibit decoherence effects.

Findings

Maximally entangled impurity states preserve AB oscillation amplitude.

Entanglement inhibits electron decoherence caused by magnetic impurities.

Entangled impurity states can be generated via electron scattering.

Abstract

We investigate the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interference pattern in the electron transmission through a mesoscopic ring in which two identical non-interacting magnetic impurities are embedded. Adopting a quantum waveguide theory, we derive the exact transmission probability amplitudes and study the influence of maximally entangled states of the impurity spins on the electron transmittivity interference pattern. For suitable electron wave vectors, we show that the amplitude of AB oscillations in the absence of impurities is in fact not reduced within a wide range of the electron-impurity coupling constant when the maximally entangled singlet state is prepared. Such state is thus able to inhibit the usual electron decoherence due to scattering by magnetic impurities. We also show how this maximally entangled state of the impurity spins can be generated via electron scattering.