Electrostatic confinement of charge carriers in bilayer graphene provides a unique platform for carbon-based spin, charge or exchange qubits. By exploiting the possibility to induce a band gap with electrostatic gating, we form a versatile and widely tunable multi-quantum dot system. We demonstrate the formation of single, double and triple quantum dots that are free of any sign of disorder. In bilayer graphene we have the possibility to form tunnel barriers using different mechanisms. We can exploit the ambipolar nature of bilayer graphene where pn-junctions form natural tunnel barriers. Alternatively, we can use gates to form tunnel barriers, where we can vary the tunnel coupling by more than two orders of magnitude tuning between a deeply Coulomb blockaded system and a Fabry-P\'erot-like cavity. Demonstrating such tunability is an important step towards graphene-based quantum computation.
@article{arxiv.1805.02943,
title = {Coupled quantum dots in bilayer graphene},
author = {Marius Eich and Riccardo Pisoni and Alessia Pally and Hiske Overweg and Annika Kurzmann and Yongjin Lee and Peter Rickhaus and Kenji Watanabe and Takashi Taniguchi and Klaus Ensslin and Thomas Ihn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.02943},
year = {2018}
}