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In this paper, a carbon nanotube (CNT) based single-ion detector is proposed and its performance is evaluated with atomistic quantum transport models. The sensor can detect any ion type without molecule-specific functionalization and allows…

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We describe a method to control and detect in single-shot the electron spin state of an individual donor in silicon with greatly enhanced sensitivity. A silicon-based Single-Electron Transistor (SET) allows for spin-dependent tunneling of…

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We present low temperature charge sensing measurements of nanoscale phosphorus-implanted double-dots in silicon. The implanted phosphorus forms two 50 nm diameter islands with source and drain leads, which are separated from each other by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-25 F. E. Hudson , A. J. Ferguson , C. C. Escott , A. S. Dzurak , R. G. Clark , D. N. Jamieson , C. Yang

We report the fabrication and measurement of one-electron single and double quantum dots with fast tunnel rates in a Si/SiGe heterostructure. Achieving fast tunnel rates in few-electron dots can be challenging, in part due to the large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 Madhu Thalakulam , C. B. Simmons , B. M. Rosemeyer , D. E. Savage , M. G. Lagally , Mark Friesen , S. N. Coppersmith , M. A. Eriksson

We generalize the decay cascade model of charge capture statistics for a tunable-barrier non-adiabatic electron pump dominated by the backtunneling error at the quantum dot decoupling stage. The energy scales controlling the competition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-13 Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs , Janis Timoshenko

Fully quantized mechanical motion of a single-level quantum dot coupled to two voltage biased electronic leads is studied. It is found that there are two different regimes depending on the applied voltage. If the bias voltage is below a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Nord , L. Y. Gorelik

The scalability of quantum photonic integrated circuits opens the path towards large-scale quantum computing and communication. To date, this scalability has been limited by the stochastic nature of the quantum light sources. Moreover,…

We study the loading of electrons into a quantum dot with dynamically controlled tunnel barriers. We introduce a method to measure tunneling rates for individual discrete states and to identify their relaxation paths. Exponential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Tobias Wenz , Jevgeny Klochan , Frank Hohls , Thomas Gerster , Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs , Hans W. Schumacher

We demonstrate a reconfigurable quantum dot gate architecture that incorporates two interchangeable transport channels. One channel is used to form quantum dots and the other is used for charge sensing. The quantum dot transport channel can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-29 D. M. Zajac , T. M. Hazard , X. Mi , K. Wang , J. R. Petta

The Superconducting Quantum Computing (SQC) is one of the most promising quantum computing techniques. The SQC requires precise control and acquisition to operate the superconducting qubits. The ultra-precision DC source is used to provide…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-08 Futian Liang , Peng Miao , Jin Lin , Yu Xu , Cheng Guo , Lihua Sun , ShengKai Liao , Ge Jin , ChengZhi Peng

We investigate the noise properties of pump currents through molecular wires and coupled quantum dots. As a model we employ a two level system that is connected to electron reservoirs and is non-adiabatically driven. Concerning the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Franz J. Kaiser , Sigmund Kohler

In this Letter, we study the real-ime dynamics of single-electron pumpings. We modulate the left tunneling barrier along with the dot level but slightly changing the right barrier to operate the single-electron pumping device at zero bias.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-03 Chuan-Yu Lin , Wei-Min Zhang

The long term scaling prospects for solid-state quantum computing architectures relies heavily on the ability to simply and reliably measure and control the coherent electron interaction strength, known as the tunnel coupling, $t_c$. Here,…

We propose a method to dynamically generate and control the flow of spin-entangled electrons, each belonging to a spin-singlet, by means of adiabatic quantum pumping. The pumping cycle functions by periodic time variation of localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Kunal K. Das , Sungjun Kim , Ari Mizel

We propose a simple approach to construct a quantum-dot and it's electrodes using chiral metallic single walled carbon nanotube (CM-SWCNT) segments of exactly opposite chiralities $(m,n)$ and $(n,m)$. The degree and energetics of electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-06 Riju Banerjee , Joydeep Bhattacharjee

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

Quantum dots must be tuned precisely to provide a suitable basis for quantum computation. A scalable platform for quantum computing can only be achieved by fully automating the tuning process. One crucial step is to trap the appropriate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Fabian Hader , Sarah Fleitmann , Jan Vogelbruch , Lotte Geck , Stefan van Waasen

We study non-adiabatic two-parameter charge and spin pumping through a single-level quantum dot with Coulomb interaction. For the limit of weak tunnel coupling and in the regime of pumping frequencies up to the tunneling rates, $\Omega…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-10 Fabio Cavaliere , Michele Governale , Jürgen König

We demonstrate non-adiabatic charge pumping utilizing a sequence of coherent oscillations between a superconducting island and two reservoirs. Our method, based on pulsed quantum state manipulations, allows to speedup charge pumping to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 F. Hoehne , Yu. A. Pashkin , O. V. Astafiev , M. Möttönen , J. P. Pekola , J. S. Tsai

The central challenge of quantum computing is implementing high-fidelity quantum gates at scale. However, many existing approaches to qubit control suffer from a scale-performance trade-off, impeding progress towards the creation of useful…