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Low-capacitance Josephson junction systems as well as coupled quantum dots, in a parameter range where single charges can be controlled, provide physical realizations of quantum bits, discussed in connection with quantum computing. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Shnirman , Gerd Schoen

We report a detailed study of low-temperature (mK) transport properties of a silicon double-dot system fabricated by phosphorous ion implantation. The device under study consists of two phosphorous nanoscale islands doped to above the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Mitic , K. D. Petersson , M. C. Cassidy , R. P. Starrett , E. Gauja , A. J. Ferguson , C. Yang , D. N. Jamieson , R. G. Clark , A. S. Dzurak

We measure charge transport in hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) using a nanometer scale silicon MOSFET as a charge sensor. This charge detection technique makes possible the measurement of extremely large resistances. At high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 K. MacLean , T. S. Mentzel , M. A. Kastner

We present an electrostatically defined few-electron double quantum dot (QD) realized in a molecular beam epitaxy grown Si/SiGe heterostructure. Transport and charge spectroscopy with an additional QD as well as pulsed-gate measurements are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Wild , J. Sailer , J. Nützel , G. Abstreiter , S. Ludwig , D. Bougeard

A serial triple quantum dot (TQD) integrated with a quantum dot (QD) charge sensor is realized from an InAs nanowire via a fine finger-gate technique. The complex charge states and intriguing properties of the device are studied in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Weijie Li , Zhihai Liu , Jingwei Mu , Yi Luo , Dong Pan , Jianhua Zhao , H. Q. Xu

We investigate gate-defined quantum dots in silicon on insulator nanowire field-effect transistors fabricated using a foundry-compatible fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) process. A series of split gates wrapped over the silicon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Jingyu Duan , Michael A. Fogarty , James Williams , Louis Hutin , Maud Vinet , John J. L. Morton

We measure current by counting single electrons tunneling through an InAs nanowire quantum dot. The charge detector is realized by fabricating a quantum point contact in close vicinity to the nanowire. The results based on electron counting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Gustavsson , I. Shorubalko , R. Leturcq , S. Schön , K. Ensslin

Charge noise is one of the main sources of environmental decoherence for spin qubits in silicon, presenting a major obstacle in the path towards highly scalable and reproducible qubit fabrication. Here we demonstrate in-depth…

We report here direct measurements of the destruction of charge quantization in a single electron box, the first over the full range of box-to-lead conductance values from G ~ 0 to the conductance quantum G_q = 2e^2/h, using a sensitive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 David S. Duncan , Carol Livermore , Robert M. Westervelt , Kevin D. Maranowski , Arthur C. Gossard

We report the use of dispersive gate sensing (DGS) as a means of probing the charge environment of heterostructure-based qubit devices. The DGS technique, which detects small shifts in the quantum capacitance associated with single-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 X. G. Croot , S. J. Pauka , H. Lu , A. C. Gossard , J. D. Watson , G. C. Gardner , S. Fallahi , M. J. Manfra , D. J. Reilly

Silicon technology offers the enticing opportunity for monolithic integration of quantum and classical electronic circuits. However, the power consumption levels of classical electronics may compromise the local chip temperature and hence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Mathieu de Kruijf , Grayson M. Noah , Alberto Gomez-Saiz , John J. L. Morton , M. Fernando Gonzalez-Zalba

A highly sensitive charge detector is realized for a quantum dot in an InAs nanowire. We have developed a self-aligned etching process to fabricate in a single step a quantum point contact in a two-dimensional electron gas and a quantum dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 I. Shorubalko , R. Leturcq , A. Pfund , D. Tyndall , R. Krischek , S. Schon , K. Ensslin

We present a thermometry scheme to extract the temperature of a 2DEG by monitoring the charge occupation of a weakly tunnel-coupled 'thermometer' quantum dot using a quantum point contact detector. Electronic temperatures between 97 mK and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Mavalankar , S. J. Chorley , J. Griffiths , G. A. C. Jones , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie , C. G. Smith

We calculate the charge sensitivity of a recently demonstrated device where the Josephson inductance of a single Cooper-pair transistor is measured. We find that the intrinsic limit to detector performance is set by oscillator quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Mika A. Sillanpaa , Leif Roschier , Pertti J. Hakonen

We report electron transport measurements of a silicon double dot formed in multi-gated metal-oxide-semiconductor structures with a 15-nm-thick silicon-on-insulator layer. Tunable tunnel coupling enables us to observe an excitation spectrum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. W. Liu , T. Fujisawa , H. Inokawa , Y. Ono , A. Fujiwara , Y. Hirayama

We report the fabrication and characterization of an electrostatic quantum dot in pure Germanium with an integrated charge measurement transistor. The device uses the Al2O3/Germanium interface for the confinement of carriers in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-01 G. Mazzeo , E. Yablonovitch , H. W. Jiang

Deterministic control over the location and number of donors is crucial to donor spin quantum bits (qubits) in semiconductor based quantum computing. In this work, a focused ion beam is used to implant antimony donors close to quantum dots.…

We demonstrate high speed manipulation of a few-electron double quantum dot. In the one-electron regime, the double dot forms a charge qubit. Microwaves are used drive transitions between the (1,0) and (0,1) charge states of the double dot.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 J. R. Petta , A. C. Johnson , J. M. Taylor , A. Yacoby , M. D. Lukin , C. M. Marcus , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

Gate-defined semiconductor quantum dots require an appropriate number of electrons to function as qubits. The number of electrons is usually tuned by analyzing charge stability diagrams, in which charge transitions manifest as edges.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Fabian Hader , Fabian Fuchs , Sarah Fleitmann , Karin Havemann , Benedikt Scherer , Jan Vogelbruch , Lotte Geck , Stefan van Waasen

Electron spins in silicon quantum dots provide a promising route towards realising the large number of coupled qubits required for a useful quantum processor. At present, the requisite single-shot spin qubit measurements are performed using…