Emergence of intra-particle entanglement and time-varying violation of Bell's inequality in Dirac matter

We demonstrate the emergence and dynamics of intraparticle entanglement in massless Dirac fermions. This entanglement, generated by spin-orbit coupling, arises between the spin and sublattice pseudospin of electrons in graphene. The entanglement is a complex dynamic quantity but is generally large,...

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Autores: De Moraes Araújo, Bruna Gabrielly, Cummings, Aron|||0000-0003-2307-497X, Roche, Stephan|||0000-0003-0323-4665
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:235978
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/235978
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.102.041403
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Bell inequalities
Bell's inequality
Complex dynamics
Massless dirac fermions
Mesoscopic devices
Non-local measurement
Spin-spin correlation
Time dependence
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Sumario:We demonstrate the emergence and dynamics of intraparticle entanglement in massless Dirac fermions. This entanglement, generated by spin-orbit coupling, arises between the spin and sublattice pseudospin of electrons in graphene. The entanglement is a complex dynamic quantity but is generally large, independent of the initial state. Its time dependence implies a dynamical violation of a Bell inequality, while its magnitude indicates that large intraparticle entanglement is a general feature of graphene on a substrate. These features are also expected to impact entanglement between pairs of particles, and may be detectable in experiments that combine Cooper pair splitting with nonlocal measurements of spin-spin correlation in mesoscopic devices based on Dirac materials.