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Probing g-tensor reproducibility and spin-orbit effects in planar silicon hole quantum dots

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2024-11-12 v1

Abstract

In this work, we probe the sensitivity of hole-spin properties to hole occupation number in a planar silicon double-quantum dot device fabricated on a 300 mm integrated platform. Using DC transport measurements, we investigate the g-tensor and spin-relaxation induced leakage current within the Pauli spin-blockade regime as a function of magnetic-field orientation at three different hole occupation numbers. We find the g-tensor and spin-leakage current to be highly anisotropic due to light-hole/heavy-hole mixing and spin-orbit mixing, but discover the anisotropies to be relatively insensitive to the dot hole number. Furthermore, we extract the dominant inter-dot spin-orbit coupling mechanism as surface Dresselhaus, with an in-plane orientation parallel to transport and magnitude tSO\boldsymbol{t_{SO}} \approx 300 neV. Finally, we observe a strong correlation between the g-factor difference (δ\deltag\boldsymbol{g}) between each dot and the spin-leakage current anisotropy, as a result of δ\deltag\boldsymbol{g} providing an additional spin-relaxation pathway, and should be considered. ]Our findings indicate that hole-spin devices are not as sensitive to precise operating conditions as anticipated. This has important implications optimizing spin control and readout based on magnetic-field direction, together with tuning large arrays of QDs as spin-qubits.

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@article{arxiv.2411.06016,
  title  = {Probing g-tensor reproducibility and spin-orbit effects in planar silicon hole quantum dots},
  author = {Ik Kyeong Jin and Joseph Hillier and Scott D. Liles and Zhanning Wang and Aaquib Shamim and Isaac Vorreiter and Ruoyu Li and Clement Godfrin and Stefan Kubicek and Kristiaan De Greve and Dimitrie Culcer and Alexander R. Hamilton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.06016},
  year   = {2024}
}