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Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is expected to be natively supported by future 6G wireless radios, yet most mmWave sensing solutions still rely on dedicated radar hardware incompatible with cost and power constrained wireless…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Pin-Han Ho , Limei Peng , Yiming Miao , Xu Fan , Kairan Liang , Haoran Mei , Wei Duan

Charge qubits formed in double quantum dots represent quintessential two-level systems that enjoy both ease of control and efficient readout. Unfortunately, charge noise can cause rapid decoherence, with typical single-qubit gate fidelities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-11 Yuan-Chi Yang , S. N. Coppersmith , Mark Friesen

We report an experimental study on the shot noise as well as the dc transport properties of a quantum point contact (QPC) whose conductance anomaly can be tuned electrostatically by the gate electrodes. By controlling the single QPC so that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-08 Shuji Nakamura , Masayuki Hashisaka , Yoshiaki Yamauchi , Shinya Kasai , Teruo Ono , Kensuke Kobayashi

We demonstrate single-charge occupation of ambipolar quantum dots in silicon via charge sensing. We have fabricated ambipolar quantum dot (QD) devices in a silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor heterostructure comprising a single-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 A. J. Sousa de Almeida , A. Marquez Seco , T. van den Berg , B. van de Ven , F. Bruijnes , S. V. Amitonov , F. A. Zwanenburg

We present an efficient method for the characterization of two coupled discrete quantum systems, one of which can be controlled and measured. For two systems with transition frequencies $\omega_q$, $\omega_r$, and coupling strength $g$ we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-06 Markku P. V. Stenberg , Yuval R. Sanders , Frank K. Wilhelm

A Quantum Point Contact (QPC) causes a one-dimensional constriction on the spatial potential landscape of a two-dimensional electron system. By tuning the voltage applied on a QPC at low temperatures the resulting regular step-like electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 E. Schubert , J. Heyder , F. Bauer , W. Stumpf , W. Wegscheider , J. v. Delft , S. Ludwig , A. Högele

Ultrasensitive detection of the frequency, phase, and amplitude of radio frequency (RF) electric fields is central to a variety of important applications, including radio communication, cosmology, dark matter searches, and high-fidelity…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Hao Wu , Grant Mitts , Clayton Ho , Joshua Rabinowitz , Eric R. Hudson

We measure the transmission phase of a quantum point contact (QPC) at a low carrier density in which electron interaction is expected to play an important role and anomalous behaviors are observed. In the first conductance plateau, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-01 Toshiyuki Kobayashi , Shoei Tsuruta , Satoshi Sasaki , Hiroyuki Tamura , Tatsushi Akazaki

Semiconductor quantum dots, where electrons or holes are isolated via electrostatic potentials generated by surface gates, are promising building blocks for semiconductor-based quantum technology. Here, we investigate double quantum dot…

We fabricated strongly confined Schottky-gated quantum point contacts by etching Si/SiGe heterostructures and observed intriguing conductance quantization in units of approximately 1e2/h. Non-linear conductance measurements were performed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Scappucci , L. Di Gaspare , E. Giovine , A. Notargiacomo , R. Leoni , F. Evangelisti

Motivated by recent interest in implementing circuit quantum electrodynamics with semiconducting quantum dots, we consider a double quantum dot (DQD) capacitively coupled to a superconducting resonator that is driven by the microwave field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Clement H. Wong , Maxim G. Vavilov

Quantum detector properties of the quantum point contact (QPC) are analyzed for arbitrary electron transparency and coupling strength to the measured system and are shown to be determined by the electron counting statistics. Conditions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dmitri V. Averin , Eugene V. Sukhorukov

In this paper, we present a nonlinear resonator performing the readout of a charge-sensing quantum dot. We show that by driving the resonator in the nonlinear regime, we achieve a near-unity signal. This despite not satisfying the impedance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Harald Havir , Andrea Cicovic , Pierre Glidic , Subhomoy Haldar , Sebastian Lehmann , Kimberly A. Dick , Ville F. Maisi

We analyze the dispersive readout of superconducting charge and flux qubits as a quantum measurement process. The measurement oscillator frequency is considered much lower than the qubit frequency. This regime is interesting because large…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 L. Tornberg , G. Johansson

Spin qubits in germanium are a promising contender for scalable quantum computers. Reading out of the spin and charge configuration of quantum dots formed in Ge/Si core/shell nanowires is typically performed by measuring the current through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 J. H. Ungerer , P. Chevalier Kwon , T. Patlatiuk , J. Ridderbos , A. Kononov , D. Sarmah , E. P. A. M. Bakkers , D. Zumbühl , C. Schönenberger

We present measurements of the electron temperature using gate defined quantum dots formed in a GaAs 2D electron gas in both direct transport and charge sensing mode. Decent agreement with the refrigerator temperature was observed over a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-08 D. Maradan , L. Casparis , T. -M. Liu , D. E. F. Biesinger , C. P. Scheller , D. M. Zumbühl , J. Zimmerman , A. C. Gossard

Precise spectroscopy of oscillating fields plays significant roles in many fields. Here, we propose an experimentally feasible scheme to measure the frequency of a fast-oscillating field using a single-qubit sensor. By invoking a stable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-21 Yaoming Chu , Pengcheng Yang , Musang Gong , Min Yu , Baiyi Yu , Martin B. Plenio , Alex Retzker , Jianming Cai

We describe an approach to the high-fidelity measurement of a superconducting qubit using an on-chip microwave photon counter. The protocol relies on the transient response of a dispersively coupled measurement resonator to map the state of…

We study the interaction between two adjacent but electrically isolated quantum point contacts (QPCs). At high enough source-drain bias on one QPC, the drive QPC, we detect a finite electric current in the second, unbiased, detector QPC.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-03 V. S. Khrapai , S. Ludwig , J. P. Kotthaus , H. P. Tranitz , W. Wegscheider

Classical sensors for spectrum analysis are widely used but lack micro- or nanoscale spatial resolution. On the other hand, quantum sensors, capable of working with nanoscale precision, do not provide precise frequency resolution over a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Nicolas Staudenmaier , Simon Schmitt , Liam P. McGuinness , Fedor Jelezko
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