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We investigate parametric pumping of a spin-polarized current through a nearly-closed quantum dot in a perpendicular magnetic field. Pumping is achieved by tuning the tunnel couplings to the left and right lead - thereby operating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Blaauboer , C. M. L. Fricot

We studied the dynamics of a pair of single-electron double quantum dots (DQD) under longitudinal and transverse static magnetic fields and time-dependent harmonic modulation of their interaction couplings. We propose to modulate the tunnel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Alejandro D. Bendersky , Sergio S. Gomez , Rodolfo H. Romero

Two-dimensional materials offer new opportunities for both fundamental science and technological applications, by exploiting the electron spin. While graphene is very promising for spin communication due to its extraordinary electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-08 Ahmet Avsar , Jun You Tan , Marcin Kurpas , Martin Gmitra , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jaroslav Fabian , Barbaros Ozyilmaz

Tuning of gate-defined semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) is a major bottleneck for scaling spin qubit technologies. We present a deep learning (DL) driven, semantic-segmentation pipeline that performs charge auto-tuning by locating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Peter Samaha , Amine Torki , Ysaline Renaud , Sam Fiette , Emmanuel Chanrion , Pierre-Andre Mortemousque , Yann Beilliard

Altermagnets offer a unique pathway to functional spintronics by combining vanishing magnetization with large spin splitting. Here, we demonstrate that the canonical d-wave altermagnet KV2Se2O can deliver giant tunneling magnetoresistance…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-26 Bin Liu , Pei-Hao Fu , Yu-Xuan Sun , Xiao-Lin Zhang , Si-Cong Zhu , Xiang-Long Yu , Hua Wu , Yuan-Zhi Shao

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with conventional bulk ferromagnets separated by a nonmagnetic insulating layer are key building blocks in spintronics for magnetic sensors and memory. A radically different approach of using atomically-thin…

We have studied the current through a carbon nanotube quantum dot with one ferromagnetic and one normal-metal lead. For the values of gate voltage at which the normal lead is resonant with the single available non-degenerate energy level on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-20 Christopher A. Merchant , Nina Markovic

A fault-tolerant quantum repeater or quantum computer using solid-state spin-based quantum bits will likely require a physical implementation with many spins arranged in a grid. Self-assembled quantum dots (QDs) have been established as…

We predict and analyze a novel spin filter in semiconducting carbon nanotubes. By using local electrostatic gates, the conduction and valence bands can be modulated to form a double-barrier structure. The confined region below the valence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Gunlycke , J. H. Jefferson , S. W. D. Bailey , C. J. Lambert , D. G. Pettifor , G. A. D. Briggs

We present an analytically tractable theory of reservoir-engineered refrigeration of a superconducting microwave cavity and map it onto a realistic solid-state implementation based on gate-defined double-quantum-dot (DQD) spin qubits.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Daryoosh Vashaee , Jahanfar Abouie

A crucial requirement for quantum information processing is the realization of multiple-qubit quantum gates. Here, we demonstrate an electron spin based all-electrical two-qubit gate consisting of single spin rotations and inter-dot spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 R. Brunner , Y. -S. Shin , T. Obata , M. Pioro-Ladrière , T. Kubo , K. Yoshida , T. Taniyama , Y. Tokura , S. Tarucha

Van der Waals magnets have emerged as a fertile ground for the exploration of highly tunable spin physics and spin-related technology. Two-dimensional (2D) magnons in van der Waals magnets are collective excitation of spins under strong…

In this dissertation we use sophisticated numerical methods in order to examine ground-state (GS) properties of two types of quantum systems with electron electron interactions: A quantum dot (QD) and a nano-wire. In the first half of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-06-29 Yuval Weiss

Spin-polarized quasiparticles can be easily created during spin-filtering through a ferromagnetic insulator (FI) in contact with a superconductor due to pair breaking effects at the interface. A combination FI-N-FI sandwiched between two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-27 P. K. Muduli

In a device with a superconductor coupled to two parallel quantum dots (QDs) the electrical tunability of the QD levels can be used to exploit non-classical current correlations due to the splitting of Cooper pairs. We experimentally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-20 L. Hofstetter , S. Csonka , A. Baumgartner , Fülöp , S. d'Hollosy , J. Nygård , C. Schönenberger

We report the dispersive readout of the spin state of a double quantum dot formed at the corner states of a silicon nanowire field-effect transistor. Two face-to-face top-gate electrodes allow us to independently tune the charge occupation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 A. C. Betz , R. Wacquez , M. Vinet , X. Jehl , A L. Saraiva , M. Sanquer , A. J. Ferguson , M. F. Gonzalez-Zalba

Reliable detection of single electron tunneling in quantum dots (QD) is paramount to use this category of device for quantum information processing. Here, we report charge sensing in a degenerately phosphorus-doped silicon QD by means of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Rossi , T. Ferrus , W. Lin , T. Kodera , D. A. Williams , S. Oda

Electron spin qubits in silicon, whether in quantum dots or in donor atoms, have long been considered attractive qubits for the implementation of a quantum computer due to the semiconductor vacuum character of silicon and its compatibility…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 M. Urdampilleta , A. Chatterjee , C. C. Lo , T. Kobayashi , J. Mansir , S. Barraud , A. C. Betz , S. Rogge , M. F. Gonzalez-Zalba , J. J. L. Morton

We calculate current, spin current and tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) for a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads in the presence of a square wave of bias voltage. Our results are obtained via time-dependent nonequilibrium Green…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. M. Souza , J. A. Gomez

We investigate gate-defined quantum dots in silicon on insulator nanowire field-effect transistors fabricated using a foundry-compatible fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) process. A series of split gates wrapped over the silicon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Jingyu Duan , Michael A. Fogarty , James Williams , Louis Hutin , Maud Vinet , John J. L. Morton