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Achieving controllable coupling of dopants in silicon is crucial for operating donor-based qubit devices, but it is difficult because of the small size of donor-bound electron wavefunctions. Here we report the characterization of a quantum…

Electron spins in silicon quantum dots are promising qubits due to their long coherence times, scalable fabrication, and potential for all-electrical control. However, charge noise in the host semiconductor presents a major obstacle to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-21 Elliot J. Connors , JJ Nelson , Lisa F. Edge , John M. Nichol

We report on Coulomb blockade and Coulomb diamond measurements on an etched, tunable single-layer graphene quantum dot. The device consisting of a graphene island connected via two narrow graphene constrictions is fully tunable by three…

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We study a system of two symmetrical capacitively coupled quantum dots, each coupled to its own metallic lead, focusing on its evolution as a function of the gate voltage applied to each dot. Using the numerical renormalization group and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew K. Mitchell , Martin R. Galpin , David E. Logan

Topological insulator nanoribbons (TI NRs) provide a useful platform to explore the phase-coherent quantum electronic transport of topological surface states, which is crucial for the development of topological quantum devices. When applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-17 Tae-Ha Hwang , Hong-Seok Kim , Yasen Hou , Dong Yu , Yong-Joo Doh

We focus on a metallic quantum dot coupled to a reservoir of electrons through a single-mode quantum point contact and capacitively connected to a back-gate, by taking into account that the gate voltage can exhibit noise; This will occur…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Karyn Le Hur

Silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) spin qubits have become a promising platform for quantum information processing, with recent demonstrations of high-fidelity single and two-qubit gates. To move beyond a few qubits, however, more…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-10 Eduardo B. Ramirez , Francois Sfigakis , Sukanya Kudva , Jonathan Baugh

Nanofabricated metal gate electrodes are commonly used to confine and control electrons in electrostatically defined quantum dots. However, these same gates impart strain-induced potential fluctuations that can potentially impair device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Collin C. D. Frink , Talise Oh , E. S. Joseph , Merritt P. Losert , E. R. MacQuarrie , Benjamin D. Woods , M. A. Eriksson , Mark Friesen

We have fabricated and characterized a single hole transistor in an undoped AlGaAs-GaAs heterostructure. Our device consists of a p-type quantum dot, populated using an electric field rather than modulation doping. Low temperature transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 O. Klochan , J. C. H. Chen , A. P. Micolich , A. R. Hamilton , K. Muraki , Y. Hirayama

Indium antimonide (InSb) two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) have a unique combination of material properties: high electron mobility, strong spin-orbit interaction, large Land\'{e} g-factor, and small effective mass. This makes them an…

We report on hole g-factor measurements in three terminal SiGe self-assembled quantum dot devices with a top gate electrode positioned very close to the nanostructure. Measurements of both the perpendicular as well as the parallel g-factor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-14 N. Ares , G. Katsaros , V. N. Golovach , J. J. Zhang , A. Prager , L. I. Glazman , O. G. Schmidt , S. De Franceschi

We report the dispersive readout of the spin state of a double quantum dot formed at the corner states of a silicon nanowire field-effect transistor. Two face-to-face top-gate electrodes allow us to independently tune the charge occupation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 A. C. Betz , R. Wacquez , M. Vinet , X. Jehl , A L. Saraiva , M. Sanquer , A. J. Ferguson , M. F. Gonzalez-Zalba

Electron localization in the Si/Ge heterosystem with Si quantum dots (QDs) was studied by transport and electron spin resonance (ESR) measurements. For Si QD structures grown on Ge(111) substrates, the ESR signal with g-factor…

Shallow undoped Si/SiGe quantum wells are the leading platforms for hosting quantum processors based on spin-qubits. The ohmic contacts to the electron gas in these systems are accomplished by ion-implantation technique since the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 LuckyDonald L Kynshi , Umang Soni , Chithra H Sharma , Shengqiang Zhou and , Madhu Thalakulam

We propose a novel Forked-Contacts, Dynamically-Doped Multigate transistor as ultimate scaling booster for both Si and 2D materials in aggressively-scaled nanosheet devices. Using accurate dissipative DFT-NEGF atomistic-simulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Aryan Afzalian , Zubair Ahmed , Julien Ryckaert

We electrically measure intrinsic silicon quantum dots with electrostatically defined tunnel barriers. The presence of both p-type and n-type ohmic contacts enables the accumulation of either electrons or holes. Thus we are able to study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. C. Betz , M. F. Gonzalez-Zalba , G. Podd , A. J. Ferguson

Recent research interest in emerging logic systems based on quantum dots has been sparked by the experimental demonstration of nanometer-scale logic devices composed of atomically sized quantum dots made of silicon dangling bonds (SiDBs),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Samuel S. H. Ng , Jeremiah Croshaw , Marcel Walter , Robert Wille , Robert Wolkow , Konrad Walus

Silicon can be isotopically enriched, allowing for the fabrication of highly coherent semiconductor spin qubits. However, the conduction band of bulk Si exhibits a six-fold valley degeneracy, which may adversely impact the performance of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Seong Woo Oh , Artem O. Denisov , Pengcheng Chen , Jason R. Petta

We report on ambipolar gate-defined quantum dots in silicon on insulator (SOI) nanowires fabricated using a customised complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) process. The ambipolarity was achieved by extending a gate over an…

Electron spin qubits in Si/SiGe quantum wells are limited by the small and variable energy separation of the conduction band valleys. While sharp quantum well interfaces are pursued to increase the valley splitting energy deterministically,…