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Phys. Rev. B 67, 241305(R) (2003) [4 pages]

Entanglement of solid-state qubits by measurement

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Rusko Ruskov* and Alexander N. Korotkov
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, California 92521-0204, USA

Received 3 April 2003; published 13 June 2003

We show that two identical solid-state qubits can be made fully entangled (starting from a completely mixed state) with probability 1/4 just by measuring them with a detector, equally coupled to the qubits. This happens in the case of repeated strong (projective) measurements as well as in a more realistic case of weak continuous measurement. In the latter case, the entangled state can be identified by a flat spectrum of the detector shot noise, while the nonentangled state (probability 3/4) leads to a spectral peak at the Rabi frequency with the maximum peak-to-pedestal ratio of 32/3.

© 2003 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.67.241305
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.67.241305
PACS:
73.21.La, 03.67.-a, 03.65.Ud

*On leave from INRNE, Sofia BG-1784, Bulgaria.