Approaches to measuring entanglement in chemical magnetometers
M Tiersch1, G G Guerreschi, J Clausen
1Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences , Technikerstrasse 21A, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Abstract:
Chemical magnetometers are radical pair systems such as solutions of pyrene and N,N-dimethylaniline (Py-DMA) that show magnetic field effects in their spin dynamics and their fluorescence. We investigate the existence and decay of quantum entanglement in free geminate Py-DMA radical pairs and discuss how entanglement can be assessed in these systems. We provide an entanglement witness and propose possible observables for experimentally estimating entanglement in radical pair systems with isotropic hyperfine couplings. As an application, we analyze how the field dependence of the entanglement lifetime in Py-DMA could in principle be used for magnetometry and illustrate the propagation of measurement errors in this approach.
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