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Dynamic generation of orbital quasiparticle entanglement in mesoscopic conductors P. Samuelsson∗ and M. B¨uttiker D´epartement de Physique Th´eorique, Universit´e de Gen`eve, CH-1211 Gen`eve 4, Switzerland (Dated: February 2, 2008) 4 We propose a scheme for dynamically creating orbitally entangled electron-hole pairs through a 0 0 time-dependent variation of the electrical potential in a mesoscopic conductor. The time-dependent 2 potential generates a superposition of electron-hole pairs in two different orbital regions of the conductor, a Mach-Zehnder interferometer in the quantum Hall regime. The orbital entanglement v is detected via violation of a Bell inequality, formulated in terms of zero-frequency current noise. o Adiabatic cycling of the potential, both in the weak and strong amplitude limit, is considered. N PACS numbers: 03.67.Mn,42.50.Lc,73.23.-b 1 1 Entanglement is an aspect of quantum mechanics of the period-averaged, zero frequency noise. Although ] l which has intrigued and fascinated physicists for seven the scheme is non-ideal, i.e. it generates less than one l a decades.1 While the initial interest mostly concerned the entangled pair per cycle, it is a simple and transparent h interpretation and fundamental properties of quantum proposal of entanglement generated by time-dependent s- mechanics,2,3 recently entanglement has emerged as a electrical potentials. Moreover, the geometry is simi- e resource for quantum information and computation