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Crystal defects can confine isolated electronic spins and are promising candidates for solid-state quantum information. Alongside research focusing on nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond, an alternative strategy seeks to identify new spin…

Scalable architectures for quantum computing using semiconductor quantum dots require interactions between qubits beyond adjacent quantum dots. Here, we propose using nanowires of electrons to mediate the interaction between two quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Dylan Lewis , Roopayan Ghosh , Sanjeev Kumar , Michael Pepper , Charles Smith , Karyn Le Hur , Sougato Bose

We theoretically investigate hole spins confined in a gate-defined quantum dot (QD) embedded in GeSn/Ge/GeSn quantum well (QW) structure. Owing to the tensile strain in the Ge layer, the system effectively realizes a light-hole qubit. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Agnieszka Miętkiewicz , Jakub Ziembicki , Krzysztof Gawarecki

We investigate hole spin relaxation in the single- and multi-hole regime in a 2x2 germanium quantum dot array. We use radiofrequency (rf) charge sensing and observe Pauli Spin-Blockade (PSB) for every second interdot transition up to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 W. I. L. Lawrie , N. W. Hendrickx , F. van Riggelen , M. Russ , L. Petit , A. Sammak , G. Scappucci , M. Veldhorst

All-electrical baseband control of qubits facilitates scaling up quantum processors by removing issues of crosstalk and heat generation. In semiconductor quantum dots, this is enabled by multi-spin qubit encodings, such as the exchange-only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Maximilian Rimbach-Russ , Valentin John , Barnaby van Straaten , Stefano Bosco

Nuclear spins in certain solids couple weakly to their environment, making them attractive candidates for quantum information processing and inertial sensing. When coupled to the spin of an optically-active electron, nuclear spins can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-11 Alexander A. Wood , Russell M. Goldblatt , Robert E. Scholten , Andy M. Martin

Coherent interactions between spins in quantum dots are a key requirement for quantum gates. We have performed pump-probe experiments in which pulsed lasers emitting at different photon energies manipulate two distinct subsets of electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-03 S. Spatzek , A. Greilich , Sophia E. Economou , A. Schwan , S. Varwig , D. R. Yakovlev , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , T. L. Reinecke , M. Bayer

Realization of fast fault-tolerant quantum gates on a single spin is the core requirement for solid-state quantum-information processing. As polarized light shows geometric interference, spin coherence is also geometrically controlled with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-16 Yuhei Sekiguchi , Naeko Niikura , Ryota Kuroiwa , Hiroki Kano , Hideo Kosaka

We demonstrate, numerically, the possibility of manipulating the spin states of molecular nanomagnets with shaped microwave pulses designed with quantum optimal control theory techniques. The state-to-state or full gate transformations can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Alberto Castro , Adrian Garcia Carrizo , David Zueco , Fernando Luis

The spin of an electron or a nucleus in a semiconductor [1] naturally implements the unit of quantum information -- the qubit -- while providing a technological link to the established electronics industry [2]. The solid-state environment,…

Electron spins in quantum dots under coherent control exhibit a number of novel feedback processes. Here, we present experimental and theoretical evidence of a feedback process between nuclear spins and a single electron spin in a single…

Several recently proposed implementations of scalable quantum computation rely on the ability to manipulate the spin polarization of individual electrons in semiconductors. The most rapid single-spin-manipulation technique to date relies on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 C. E. Pryor , M. E. Flatté

Fast spin manipulation and long spin coherence time in quantum dots are essential features for high fidelity semiconductor spin qubits. However, generally it has not been well established how to optimize these two properties simultaneously,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Yuta Matsumoto , Xiao-Fei Liu , Arne Ludwig , Andreas D. Wieck , Keisuke Koike , Takefumi Miyoshi , Takafumi Fujita , Akira Oiwa

The main obstacle to coherent control of two-level quantum systems is their coupling to an uncontrolled environment. For electron spins in III-V quantum dots, the random environment is mostly given by the nuclear spins in the quantum dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 I. T. Vink , K. C. Nowack , F. H. L. Koppens , J. Danon , Yu. V. Nazarov , L. M. K. Vandersypen

Semiconductor architectures hold promise for quantum information processing (QIP) applications due to their large industrial base and perceived scalability potential. Electron spins in silicon in particular may be an excellent architecture…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-10-24 Charles Tahan

We have developed semiconductor point contact devices in which nuclear spins in a nanoscale region are coherently controlled by all-electrical methods. Different from the standard nuclear-magnetic resonance technique, the longitudinal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Hirayama , A. Miranowicz , T. Ota , G. Yusa , K. Muraki , S. K. Ozdemir , N. Imoto

A dual-gate InSb nanosheet field-effect device is realized and is used to investigate the physical origin and the controllability of the spin-orbit interaction in a narrow bandgap semiconductor InSb nanosheet. We demonstrate that by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Yuanjie Chen , Shaoyun Huang , Dong Pan , Jianhong Xue , Li Zhang , Jianhua Zhao , H. Q. Xu

We investigate in detail, using both analytical and numerical tools, the decoherence of electron spins in quantum dots (QDs) coupled to a bath of nuclear spins in magnetic fields or with various initial bath polarizations, focusing on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wenxian Zhang , V. V. Dobrovitski , K. A. Al-Hassanieh , E. Dagotto , B. N. Harmon

The nuclear spin, being much more isolated from the environment than its electronic counterpart, enables quantum experiments with prolonged coherence times and presents a gateway towards uncovering the intricate dynamics within an atom.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Lukas M. Veldman , Evert W. Stolte , Mark P. Canavan , Rik Broekhoven , Philip Willke , Laëtitia Farinacci , Sander Otte

Qubits that can be efficiently controlled are essential for the development of scalable quantum hardware. While resonant control is used to execute high-fidelity quantum gates, the scalability is challenged by the integration of…