English
Related papers

Related papers: Controlling spin-orbit interactions in silicon qua…

200 papers

We show that the g-factor and the spin-flip time T_{1} of a heterojunction quantum dot is very sensitive to the band-bending interface electric field even in the absence of wave function penetration into the barrier. When this electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rogerio de Sousa , S. Das Sarma

Silicon quantum dots are a leading approach for solid-state quantum bits. However, developing this technology is complicated by the multi-valley nature of silicon. Here we observe transport of individual electrons in a silicon CMOS-based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-05 Xiaojie Hao , Rusko Ruskov , Ming Xiao , Charles Tahan , HongWen Jiang

We consider the full driven quantum dynamics of a qubit realized as spin of electron in a one-dimensional double quantum dot with spin-orbit coupling. The driving perturbation is taken in the form of a single half-period pulse of electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 D. V. Khomitsky , E. Ya. Sherman

Control of hyperfine interactions is a fundamental requirement for quantum computing architecture schemes based on shallow donors in silicon. However, at present, there is lacking an atomistic approach including critical effects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-29 Muhammad Usman , Charles D. Hill , Rajib Rahman , Gerhard Klimeck , Michelle Y. Simmons , Sven Rogge , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

We investigate the effect of spin-orbit interaction on the intra- and interdot particle dynamics of a double quantum dot under ac electric fields. The former is modeled as an effective ac magnetic field that produces electric-dipole spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 David Fernández-Fernández , Jordi Picó-Cortés , Sergio Vela Liñán , Gloria Platero

Coupled spin evolution and tunneling together with the relaxation and decoherence effects are studied for the double quantum dot formed in a semiconductor nanowire and driven by the periodic electric field. Such system represents a model of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 D. V. Khomitsky , M. V. Bastrakova , D. S. Pashin

Tunable synthetic spin-orbit coupling (s-SOC) is one of the key challenges in various quantum systems, such as ultracold atomic gases, topological superconductors, and semiconductor quantum dots. Here we experimentally demonstrate…

Nanofabricated quantum bits permit large-scale integration but usually suffer from short coherence times due to interactions with their solid-state environment. The outstanding challenge is to engineer the environment so that it minimally…

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

A semiconductor nanowire quantum dot with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) can be used to achieve a spin-orbit qubit. In contrast to a spin qubit, the spin-orbit qubit can respond to an external ac electric field, an effect called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-05 Rui Li , J. Q. You , C. P. Sun , Franco Nori

Semiconductor spin qubits based on spin-orbit states are responsive to electric field excitation allowing for practical, fast and potentially scalable qubit control. Spin-electric susceptibility, however, renders these qubits generally…

The transport of quantum information between different nodes of a quantum device is among the challenging functionalities of a quantum processor. In the context of spin qubits, this requirement can be met by coherent electron spin shuttling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Florian Ginzel , Adam R. Mills , Jason R. Petta , Guido Burkard

Hole-spin qubits enable fast, all-electrical spin manipulation through electric-dipole spin resonance (EDSR), arising from two microscopic mechanisms rooted in their intrinsically strong spin-orbit interaction. Depending on how the electric…

Emerging theoretical concepts for quantum technologies have driven a continuous search for structures where a quantum state, such as spin, can be manipulated efficiently. Central to many concepts is the ability to control a system by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 Heidi Potts , I-Ju Chen , Athanasios Tsintzis , Malin Nilsson , Sebastian Lehmann , Kimberly A. Dick , Martin Leijnse , Claes Thelander

Double quantum dots are convenient solid-state platforms to encode quantum information. Two-electron spin states can be conveniently detected and manipulated using strong quantum selection rules based on the Pauli exclusion principle,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-22 N. S. Lai , W. H. Lim , C. H. Yang , F. A. Zwanenburg , W. A. Coish , F. Qassemi , A. Morello , A. S. Dzurak

Quantum processors based on integrated nanoscale silicon spin qubits are a promising platform for highly scalable quantum computation. Current CMOS spin qubit processors consist of dense gate arrays to define the quantum dots, making them…

Manipulation of single spins is essential for spin-based quantum information processing. Electrical control instead of magnetic control is particularly appealing for this purpose, since electric fields are easy to generate locally on-chip.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-10 K. C. Nowack , F. H. L. Koppens , Yu. V. Nazarov , L. M. K. Vandersypen

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

The spin of a single electron confined in a semiconductor quantum dot is a natural qubit candidate. Fundamental building blocks of spin-based quantum computing have been demonstrated in double quantum dots with significant spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Aritra Sen , György Frank , Baksa Kolok , Jeroen Danon , András Pályi

We have studied theoretically the possibility of ultra-fast manipulation of a single electron spin in 2D semiconductor quantum dots, by means of high-frequency time-dependent electric fields. The electron spin degree of freedom is excited…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-24 J. A. Budagosky , A. Castro