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Spins of electrons in CMOS quantum dots combine exquisite quantum properties and scalable fabrication. In the age of quantum technology, however, the metrics that crowned Si/SiO2 as the microelectronics standard need to be reassessed with…

The valley degree of freedom in the electronic band structure of silicon, graphene, and other materials is often considered to be an obstacle for quantum computing (QC) based on electron spins in quantum dots. Here we show that control over…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-30 Niklas Rohling , Maximilian Russ , Guido Burkard

With the help of the spin-orbit interaction, we propose a scheme to perform holonomic single qubit gates on the electron spin confined to a quantum dot. The manipulation is done in the absence (or presence) of an applied magnetic field. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Vitaly N. Golovach , Massoud Borhani , Daniel Loss

We consider a single electron in a 1D quantum dot with a static slanting Zeeman field. By combining the spin and orbital degrees of freedom of the electron, an effective quantum two-level (qubit) system is defined. This pseudo-spin can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yasuhiro Tokura , Wilfred G. van der Wiel , Toshiaki Obata , Seigo Tarucha

Shuttling spin qubits in systems with large spin-orbit interaction (SOI) can cause errors during motion. However, in this work, we demonstrate that SOI can be harnessed to implement an arbitrary high-fidelity two-qubit (2Q) gate. We…

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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 investigate coherent control of a single electron trapped in a semiconductor quantum dot. Control is enabled with a strong laser field detuned with respect to the electron light-hole optical transitions. For a realistic experimental…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Francois Dubin , Gavin K. Brennen

The aim of presented research is to design a nanodevice based on a gate-defined quantum dot within a MoS$_2$ monolayer in which we confine a single electron. By applying control voltages to the device gates we modulate the confinement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 J. Pawłowski

We discuss various methods of all-optical spin control in semiconductor quantum dots. We present different ways of rotating a single confined electron spin by optical coupling to a trion state. We also discuss a method for controlling the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-17 Pawel Machnikowski , Anna Grodecka , Carsten Weber , Andreas Knorr

(001) Si spin qubits are being intensively studied because they have structures similar to that of CMOS devices currently being produced, and thus have the advantage of utilizing state-of-the-art miniaturization, integration, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-24 Takafumi Tokunaga , Hiromichi Nakazato

Spin qubits in semiconductor quantum dots represent a prominent family of solid-state qubits in the effort to build a quantum computer. They are formed when electrons or holes are confined in a static potential well in a semiconductor,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-12 Shannon Harvey

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

The spin-orbit coupling influences the total spin of semiconductor quantum dots. We analyze the theoretical prediction for the combined effects of spin-orbit coupling, weak vertical magnetic fields and deformation of the dot. Our results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez , Antonio Puente , Llorens Serra , Enrico Lipparini

We investigate the optical control possibilities of spin-valley qubit carried by single electrons localized in nanostructures of monolayer TMDs, including small quantum dots formed by lateral heterojunction and charged impurities. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-28 Yue Wu , Qingjun Tong , Gui-Bin Liu , Hongyi Yu , Wang Yao

Semiconductor hole-spin qubits offer a promising route to quantum computation due to their weak hyperfine interaction, and strong intrinsic spin-orbit coupling enabling electric control of qubits. Scalable architectures, however, require…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Madhumita Sarkar , Roopayan Ghosh , Charles G. Smith , Maksym Myronov , Sougato Bose

Quantum computing and quantum communication are remarkable examples of new information processing technologies that arise from the coherent manipulation of spins in nanostructures. We review our theoretical proposal for using electron spins…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael N. Leuenberger , Daniel Loss

We present an approach for entangling electron spin qubits localized on spatially separated impurity atoms or quantum dots via a multi-electron, two-level quantum dot. The effective exchange interaction mediated by the dot can be understood…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-10 V. Srinivasa , H. Xu , J. M. Taylor

We present a proposal for a fully electrically controllable quantum dot based spin current injector. The device consists of a quantum dot that is strongly coupled to a ferromagnetic electrode on one side and weakly coupled to a nonmagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-23 Szabolcs Csonka , Ireneusz Weymann , Gergely Zarand

The pseudospin of heavy-holes (HHs) confined in a semiconductor quantum dot (QD) represents a promising candidate for a fast and robust qubit. While hole spin manipulation by a classical electric field utilizing the Dresselhaus spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Philipp M. Mutter , Guido Burkard

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) offer a platform to explore the physics of quantum electronics including spins. Electron spins in QDs are considered good candidates for quantum bits in quantum information processing, and spin control and…