{"id":131677,"date":"2021-12-02T23:42:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T07:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/novel-quantum-device-design-promises-a-regular-flow-of-entangled-electrons-on-demand"},"modified":"2021-12-02T23:42:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T07:42:36","slug":"novel-quantum-device-design-promises-a-regular-flow-of-entangled-electrons-on-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/novel-quantum-device-design-promises-a-regular-flow-of-entangled-electrons-on-demand","title":{"rendered":"Novel quantum device design promises a regular flow of entangled electrons on demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/novel-quantum-device-design-promises-a-regular-flow-of-entangled-electrons-on-demand2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum computer and many other quantum technologies rely on the generation of quantum-entangled pairs of electrons. However, the systems developed so far typically produce a noisy and random flow of entangled electrons, which hinders synchronized operations on the entangled particles. Now, researchers from Aalto University in Finland propose a way to produce a regular flow of spin-entangled electrons.<\/p>\n<p>Their solution is based on a dynamically driven Cooper pair splitter. In a Cooper pair splitter, two <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+dots\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum dots<\/a> near a superconductor are used to generate and separate a pair of entangled electrons known as a Cooper pair. When the Cooper pair splitter is driven with a static voltage, the result is a random and noisy process.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/theoretical+analysis\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">theoretical analysis<\/a> by the Aalto team showed that driving the system dynamically with external gate voltages makes it possible to control the timing of the splitting process. As a result, exactly one pair of entangled electrons can be extracted during each splitting cycle, leading to a completely noiseless and regular flow of spin-entangled electrons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computer and many other quantum technologies rely on the generation of quantum-entangled pairs of electrons. However, the systems developed so far typically produce a noisy and random flow of entangled electrons, which hinders synchronized operations on the entangled particles. Now, researchers from Aalto University in Finland propose a way to produce a regular flow [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}