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Thermal-error regime in high-accuracy gigahertz single-electron pumping

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2017-11-15 v2

Abstract

Single-electron pumps based on semiconductor quantum dots are promising candidates for the emerging quantum standard of electrical current. They can transfer discrete charges with part-per-million (ppm) precision in nanosecond time scales. Here, we employ a metal-oxide-semiconductor silicon quantum dot to experimentally demonstrate high-accuracy gigahertz single-electron pumping in the regime where the number of electrons trapped in the dot is determined by the thermal distribution in the reservoir leads. In a measurement with traceability to primary voltage and resistance standards, the averaged pump current over the quantized plateau, driven by a \mbox{11-GHz} sinusoidal wave in the absence of magnetic field, is equal to the ideal value of efef within a measurement uncertainty as low as 0.270.27~ppm.

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@article{arxiv.1703.04795,
  title  = {Thermal-error regime in high-accuracy gigahertz single-electron pumping},
  author = {R. Zhao and A. Rossi and S. P. Giblin and J. D. Fletcher and F. E. Hudson and M. Möttönen and M. Kataoka and A. S. Dzurak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.04795},
  year   = {2017}
}
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