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We present a device architecture of hybrid-edge and dual-gated quantum point contact. We demonstrate improved electrostatic control over the separation, position, and coupling of each broken-symmetry compressible strip in graphene. Via…

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Neutral atoms are among the leading platforms toward realizing fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC). However, scaling up a single neutral-atom device beyond $\sim 10^4$ atoms to meet the demands of FTQC for practical applications…

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Titanium silicide islands have been formed by the ultrahigh vacuum deposition of thin films of titanium (< 2 nm) on atomically clean Si(100) substrates followed by annealing to ~800 degrees C. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-29 Joseph L. Tedesco , J. E. Rowe , Robert J. Nemanich

Ultracold atoms are crucial for unlocking truly precise and accurate quantum metrology, and provide an essential platform for quantum computing, communication and memories. One of the largest ongoing challenges is the miniaturization of…

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Superparamagnetic tunnel junctions (SMTJs) are promising sources of randomness for compact and energy efficient implementations of probabilistic computing techniques. Augmenting an SMTJ with electronic circuits, to convert the random…

Optical lattices serve as fundamental building blocks for atomic quantum technology. However, the scale and resolution of these lattices are diffraction-limited to the light wavelength. In conventional lattices, achieving tight confinement…

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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 investigate atomistic details of a single atom extraction process realized by using scanning tunneling microscope (STM) tip-cluster interaction on a Ag(111) surface at 6 K. Single atoms are extracted from a silver cluster one atom at a…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 A. Deshpande , H. Yildirim , A. Kara , D. P. Acharya , J. Vaughn , T. S. Rahman , S. -W. Hla

We present a fast scheme for arbitrary unitary control of interacting bosonic atoms in a double-well. Assuming fixed inter-well tunnelling rate and intra-well interaction strength, we control the many-atom state by a discrete sequence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-26 Malte C. Tichy , Mads Kock Pedersen , Klaus Mølmer , Jacob F. Sherson

Photonic integrated circuits play a central role in current and future applications such as communications, sensing, ranging, and information processing. Photonic quantum computing will also likely require an integrated optics architecture…

We report electron transport measurements of a silicon double dot formed in multi-gated metal-oxide-semiconductor structures with a 15-nm-thick silicon-on-insulator layer. Tunable tunnel coupling enables us to observe an excitation spectrum…

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Quantum tunnelling of electrons can be confined to the sub-cycle time scale of strong light fields, contributing decisively to the extreme time resolution of attosecond science. Because tunnelling also enables atomic-scale spatial…

We present a complete architecture for scalable quantum computation with ultracold atoms in optical lattices using optical tweezers focused to the size of a lattice spacing. We discuss three different two-qubit gates based on local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-16 Christof Weitenberg , Stefan Kuhr , Klaus Mølmer , Jacob F. Sherson

We introduce a novel control mode for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) that leverages di/dz feedback. By superimposing a high-frequency sinusoidal modulation on the control signal, we extract the amplitude of the resulting tunneling…

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We demonstrate a robust quantum control framework that enables high-fidelity gate operations in semiconductor spin qubit systems with always-on couplings. Always-on interactions between qubits pose a fundamental challenge for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Yong-Ju Hai , Shihang Zhang , Haoyu Guan , Peihao Huang , Yu He , Xiu-Hao Deng

Understanding and controlling decoherence in open quantum systems is of fundamental interest in science, while achieving long coherence times is critical for quantum information processing. Although great progress was made for individual,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 Lisanne Sellies , Raffael Spachtholz , Philipp Scheuerer , Jascha Repp

Topological edge states are recently attracting intense interest due to their robustness in the presence of disorder and defects. However, most approaches for manipulating such states require global modulations of the system's Hamiltonian.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Xian-Liang Lu , Ze-Liang Xiang

Coherent control of motional degrees of freedom of ultracold atoms in optical lattices offers a promising route towards programmable quantum dynamics with massive particles. We propose and analyze a scheme for implementing coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Alexander Roth , Liyang Qiu , Timon Hilker , Titus Franz , Philipp M. Preiss

To develop next-generation electronics and high efficiency energy-harvesting devices, it is crucial to understand how charge and heat are transported at the nanoscale. Metallic atomic-size contacts are ideal systems to probe the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Nico Mosso , Alyssa Prasmusinto , Andrea Gemma , Ute Drechsler , Lukas Novotny , Bernd Gotsmann

Many new material systems are being explored to enable smaller, more capable and energy efficient devices. These bottom up approaches for atomic and molecular electronics, quantum computation, and data storage all rely on a well-developed…

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