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Hole spins in silicon or germanium quantum dots have emerged as a compelling solid-state platform for scalable quantum processors. Besides relying on well-established manufacturing technologies, hole-spin qubits feature fast,…

Spin qubits in semiconductor quantum dots offer a gate-tunable platform for quantum information processing. While two-qubit interactions are typically realized through exchange coupling between neighboring spins, coupling spin qubits to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Carlos Sagaseta , María José Calderón , José Carlos Abadillo-Uriel

We study the low-energy spectrum of a single hole confined in a planar Ge quantum dot (QD) within the effective-mass formalism. The QD is sandwiched between two GeSi barriers of finite potential height grown along the [001] direction. To…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Jiawei Wang , Xuedong Hu , Herbert F Fotso

A single electron spin in a double quantum dot in a magnetic field is considered in terms of a four-level system. By describing the electron motion between the potential minima by spin-conserving tunneling and spin flip caused by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Yi-Chao Li , Xi Chen , J. G. Muga , E. Ya. Sherman

We report coherent operation of a singlet-triplet qubit controlled by the arrangement of two electrons in an adjacent double quantum dot. The system we investigate consists of two pairs of capacitively coupled double quantum dots fabricated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-20 I. van Weperen , B. D. Armstrong , E. A. Laird , J. Medford , C. M. Marcus , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

We propose a novel scheme to efficiently polarize and manipulate the electron spin in a quantum dot. This scheme is based on the spin-orbit interaction and it possesses following advantages: (1) The direction and the strength of the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

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

Group IV quantum dot hole spin systems, exhibiting strong spin-orbit coupling, provide platforms for various qubit architectures. The rapid advancement of solid-state technologies has significantly improved qubit quality, including the time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Zhanning Wang , S. D. Liles , Joe Hillier , A. R. Hamilton , Dimitrie Culcer

We report on hole compact double quantum dots fabricated using conventional CMOS technology. We provide evidence of Pauli spin blockade in the few hole regime which is relevant to spin qubit implementations. A current dip is observed around…

We present measurements on gate-defined double quantum dots in Ge-Si core-shell nanowires, which we tune to a regime with visible shell filling in both dots. We observe a Pauli spin blockade and can assign the measured leakage current at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Matthias Brauns , Joost Ridderbos , Ang Li , Erik P. A. M. Bakkers , Wilfred G. van der Wiel , Floris A. Zwanenburg

An electron spin qubit in silicon quantum dots holds promise for quantum information processing due to the scalability and long coherence. An essential ingredient to recent progress is the employment of micromagnets. They generate a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Peihao Huang , Xuedong Hu

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

Two-electron charged self-assembled quantum dot molecules exhibit a decoherence-avoiding singlet-triplet qubit subspace and an efficient spin-photon interface. Here, we demonstrate that the cycling transitions originating from auxiliary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-15 Y. L. Delley , M. Kroner , S. Faelt , W. Wegscheider , A. İmamoğlu

We report on low-temperature electronic transport measurements of a silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor quantum dot, with independent gate control of electron densities in the leads and the quantum dot island. This architecture allows the dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 W. H. Lim , F. A. Zwanenburg , H. Huebl , M. Mottonen , K. W. Chan , A. Morello , A. S. Dzurak

We study the effect of the spin-orbit interaction on heavy holes confined in a double quantum dot in the presence of a magnetic field of arbitrary direction. Rich physics arise as the two hole states of different spin are not only coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Philipp M. Mutter , Guido Burkard

Solid-state devices can be fabricated at the atomic scale, with applications ranging from classical logic to current standards and quantum technologies. While it is very desirable to probe these devices and the quantum states they host at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Kevin S. H. Ng , Benoit Voisin , Brett C. Johnson , Jeffrey C. McCallum , Joe Salfi , Sven Rogge

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

We propose an optimal set of quantum gates for a singlet-triplet qubit in a double quantum dot with two electrons utilizing the $S$-$T_-$ subspace. Qubit rotations are driven by the applied magnetic field and an orthogonal field gradient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-20 Clement H. Wong , M. A. Eriksson , S. N. Coppersmith , Mark Friesen

The spin states of single electrons in gate-defined quantum dots satisfy crucial requirements for a practical quantum computer. These include extremely long coherence times, high-fidelity quantum operation, and the ability to shuttle…

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