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Quantum point contacts (QPC) are the building blocks of quantum dot qubits and semiconducting quantum electrical metrology circuits. QPCs also make highly sensitive electrical amplifiers with the potential to operate in the quantum-limited…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Anusha Shanmugam , Prasanta Kumbhakar , Harikrishnan Sundaresan , Annu Anns Sunny , J L Reno , Madhu Thalakulam

We study the coherent transport in multi-terminal mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm ring with a quantum dot embedded in an arm. Employing the Friedel sum rule for the effective single-particle levels in the quantum dot, we explain some anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kicheon Kang

Quantum dot arrays provide a promising platform for quantum information processing. For universal quantum simulation and computation, one central issue is to demonstrate the exhaustive controllability of quantum states. Here, we report the…

We consider a quantum dot attached to leads in the Coulomb blockade regime which has a spin 1/2 ground state. We show that by applying an ESR field to the dot-spin the stationary current in the sequential tunneling regime exhibits a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Hans-Andreas Engel , Daniel Loss

In this paper, I present a simple method of obtaining spin-polarised current from a QPC with a large Rashba interaction. The origin of this spin polarisation is the adiabatic evolution of spin "up" of the first QPC sub-band, into spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-29 Samuel Bladwell

A design for a quantum gate performing transformations of a single electron spin is presented. The spin rotations are performed by the electron going around the closed loops in a gated semiconductor device. We demonstrate the operation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-25 S. Bednarek , B. Szafran

We review progress on the spintronics proposal for quantum computing where the quantum bits (qubits) are implemented with electron spins. We calculate the exchange interaction of coupled quantum dots and present experiments, where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans-Andreas Engel , L. P. Kouwenhoven , Daniel Loss , C. M. Marcus

Cross-resonance (CR) gate has emerged as a promising scheme for fault-tolerant quantum computation with fixed-frequency qubits. We experimentally implement entangling CR gate by using a microwave-only control in a tunable coupling…

We study the conductance and current noise of a superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F) single channel Quantum Point Contact (QPC) as a function of the QPC bias voltage, using a scattering approach. We show that the Spin-Dependence of Interfacial…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Audrey Cottet , Wolfgang Belzig

We propose an experiment to observe coherent oscillations in a single quantum dot with the oscillations driven by spin-orbit interaction. This is achieved without spin-polarised leads, and relies on changing the strength of the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stefan Debald , Clive Emary

Superconducting circuits are one of the leading candidates for storing and manipulating quantum information. Among them, qubits embedded with intrinsic noise protection have seen rapid advancements in recent years. This noise protection is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Yi Shi , Eran Ginossar , Michael Stern , Marzena Szymanska

Spin-orbit coupling plays an important role in both fundamental physics and technological applications. Precise estimation of the spin-orbit coupling is necessary for accurate designing across various physical setups such as solid state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Bin Yi , Abolfazl Bayat , Saubhik Sarkar

A new type of blockade effect - spin-orbit blockade (SOB) - is found in the conduction of a quantum dot (QD) made of a material with spin-orbit interaction. The blockade arises from spin-filtering effect in a quantum point contact (QPC),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-25 Sunwoo Kim , Yoshiaki Hashimoto , Yasuhiro Iye , Shingo Katsumoto

Electronic transport through a triple-quantum-dot ring with three terminals is theoretically studied. By introducing local Rashba spin-orbit interaction on an individual quantum dot, we find that the spin bias in one terminal drives…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-17 Weijiang Gong , Hui Li , Guozhu Wei

We present a formalism to study quantum networks made up by single-channel quantum wires in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field. In particular, linear transport through one-dimensional and two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dario Bercioux , Michele Governale , Vittorio Cataudella , Vincenzo Marigliano Ramaglia

Linear conductance below $2e^2/h$ shows resonance peaks in highly asymmetric quantum point contacts (QPCs). As the channel length increases, the number of peaks also increases. At the same time, differential conductance exhibits zero bias…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 Hao Zhang , Phillip M. Wu , Albert M. Chang

A spin-qubit transformation protocol is proposed for an electron in a mesoscopic quantum ring with tunable Rashba interaction controlled by the external electric field. The dynamics of an electron driven around the ring by a series of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Kregar Ambrož , Ramšak Anton

We study the ballistic magnetotransport in a double quantum point contact (QPC) device consisting of a quasi-one-dimensional quantum wire with an embedded island-like impurity - etched nano-hole as in a recently published experiment [J. C.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 Rubén C. Villarreal , Francisco Mireles , Ernesto E. Marinero , Bruce A. Gurney

We briefly overview our recent results on nonequilibrium interactions between neighboring electrically isolated nanostructures. One of the nanostructures is represented by an externally biased quantum point contact (drive-QPC), which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-25 V. S. Khrapai , S. Ludwig , J. P. Kotthaus , H. P. Tranitz , W. Wegscheider

Quantum oscillations of the spin conductance through regular and chaotic 2D quantum dots under the varying Rashba spin orbit interaction and at zero magnetic field have been numerically calculated by summing up the spin evolution matrices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Cheng-Hung Chang , Anatoly G. Mal'shukov , Koung-An Chao