Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Blum, K
• Lohmann, B

Titel

Entanglement and Bell Correlation in Electron-Exchange Collisions

Ist Teil von

• Physical review letters, 2016-01, Vol.116 (3), p.033201-033201

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

American Physical Society Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Elastic collisions between initially unpolarized electrons and hydrogenlike atoms are discussed, aiming to analyze the entanglement properties of the correlated final spin system. Explicit spin-dependent interactions are neglected and electron exchange only is taken into account. We show the final spin system to be completely characterized by a single spin correlation parameter depending on scattering angle and energy. Its numerical value identifies the final spins of the collision partners to be either in the separable, entangled, or Bell correlated regions. We emphasize explicit examples for the mixed spin system in order to illustrate the abstract concepts. The analysis of published experimental and numerical data reveals the possibility to create tunable pairs of collision partners with any desired degree of spin entanglement.