Temporal behavior of entanglement between electronic spin and subband states in a Rashba nanoloop
Rosa Safaiee, Mohammad Mehdi Golshan, Neda Foroozani
In this paper we study the entanglement dynamics of spin–subband states for an electron in a quasi-one-dimensional Rashba quantum loop, in a strong perpendicular magnetic field, explicitly including the confining potential and the Rashba spin–orbit coupling into the entropy, which is a measure of entanglement, as a function of time. Our results indicate that the entanglement between the spin states and the structural subbands undergoes periodic oscillations. Furthermore, it is shown that the period of oscillations strongly depends upon the Rashba coupling, while the amplitudes may be optimized by making proper choices of the external magnetic field. It is also shown that the maxima of entanglement, in the long run, oscillate under periodic envelopes, whose characteristics depend upon the magnetic field. Our results, thereby, provide means of controlling the degree of entanglement by adjusting these agents.
Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment•Nov 27, 2009•12 citations