Multiparticle interference, GHZ entanglement, and full counting statistics

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Abstract

We study [1] quantum coherent transport in a generalized $N$-particle Hanbury Brown-Twiss setup enclosing magnetic flux, where electrons are injected from $N$ independent sources and collected in $N$ distant detectors, and show that the $N$-th order cumulant of current cross correlations exhibits flux-dependent periodic Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillations, while there is no such oscillation in all the lower-order cumulants. The origin of the multiparticle interference is the orbital Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger entanglement of $N$ identical particles. For sufficiently strong AB oscillations the generalized $N$-particle Bell inequalities may be violated, proving the $N$-particle quantum nonlocality.\newline \newline [1] H.-S. Sim and E. V. Sukhorukov, condmat/0508399.

Authors

  • Heung-Sun Sim

    • Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea
  • Eugene V. Sukhorukov

    • Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland