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A sharp potential barrier at the Si/SiGe interface introduces valley splitting (VS), which lifts the 2-fold valley degeneracy in strained SiGe/Si/SiGe quantum wells (QWs). This work examines in detail the effects of Si/SiGe interface…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-03-07 Zhengping Jiang , Neerav Kharche , Timothy Boykin , Gerhard Klimeck

Spin qubits hosted in silicon (Si) quantum dots (QD) are attractive due to their exceptionally long coherence times and compatibility with the silicon transistor platform. To achieve electrical control of spins for qubit scalability, recent…

Electron spins in silicon quantum dots are excellent qubits because they have long coherence times, high gate fidelities, and are compatible with advanced semiconductor manufacturing techniques. The valley degree of freedom, which results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-27 Xinxin Cai , Elliot J. Connors , John M. Nichol

With silicon being the go-to material for spin qubits, and motivated by the demand of a scalable quantum computer architecture for fast and reliable quantum information transfer on-chip, we study coherent electron transport in a silicon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-02 Xinyu Zhao , Xuedong Hu

We report the demonstration of a low-disorder silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor (Si MOS) quantum dot containing a tunable number of electrons from zero to N=27. The observed evolution of addition energies with parallel magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-27 W. H. Lim , C. H. Yang , F. A. Zwanenburg , A. S. Dzurak

Electronic spins in Silicon (Si) are rising contenders for qubits -- the logical unit of quantum computation-- owing to its outstanding spin coherence properties and compatibility to standard electronics. A remarkable limitation for spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Lijun Zhang , Jun-Wei Luo , A. L. Saraiva , Belita Koiller , Alex Zunger

The valley splitting of 2D electrons in doubly-gated silicon-on-insulator quantum wells is studied by low temperature transport measurements under magnetic fields. At the buried thermal-oxide SiO$_{2}$ interface, the valley splitting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Nathan Aubergier , Vincent T. Renard , Sylvain Barraud , Kei Takashina , Benjamin A. Piot

Electron and nuclear spins of donor ensembles in isotopically pure silicon experience a vacuum-like environment, giving them extraordinary coherence. However, in contrast to a real vacuum, electrons in silicon occupy quantum superpositions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-15 J. Salfi , J. A. Mol , R. Rahman , G. Klimeck , M. Y. Simmons , L. C. L. Hollenberg , S. Rogge

Our work presents a study on the nonlinear dynamical behavior for a microcavity semiconductor containing a quantum well. Using an external periodic perturbation in energy level we observe the periodic-doubling, quasiperiodic, and direct…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-04 Hichem Eleuch , Awadhesh Prasad

We devise a platform for noise-resistant quantum computing using the valley degree of freedom of Si quantum dots. The qubit is encoded in two polarized (1,1) spin-triplet states with different valley compositions in a double quantum dot,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Dimitrie Culcer , A. L. Saraiva , Belita Koiller , Xuedong Hu , S. Das Sarma

Undoped Si-SiGe two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) provide an ideal platform for hosting quantum-dot spin-qubits owing enhanced spin dephasing times and compatibility with standard CMOS technology. The strained Si quantum well reduces the…

We theoretically propose a method to perform in situ measurements of charge noise during logical operations in silicon quantum dot spin qubits. Our method does not require ancillary spectator qubits but makes use of the valley degree of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 David W. Kanaar , H. Ekmel Ercan , Mark F. Gyure , J. P. Kestner

Motivated by recent experiments on Si/SiGe quantum wells with a co-design of high electron mobility and large valley splitting [B. Paquelet Wuetz, et al., Nature Communications 14, 1385 (2023); D. D. Esposti, et al., arXiv:2309.02832],…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Yi Huang , Sankar Das Sarma

A first principles, excited state analysis is carried out to identify ways of producing silicon quantum dots with low excitonic reorganization energy. These focus on the general strategy of either reducing or constraining exciton-phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 Xiaoning Zang , Mark T. Lusk

Non-adiabatic quantum effects, often experimentally observed in semiconductors nano-devices such as single-electron pumps operating at high frequencies, can result in undesirable and uncontrollable behaviour. However, when combined with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Alan Gardin , Ross D. Monaghan , Tyler Whittaker , Rajib Rahman , Giuseppe C. Tettamanzi

Even as today's most prominent spin-based qubit technologies are maturing in terms of capability and sophistication, there is growing interest in exploring alternate material platforms that may provide advantages, such as enhanced qubit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-20 Will J. Hardy , C. Thomas Harris , Yi-Hsin Su , Yen Chuang , Jonathan Moussa , Leon N. Maurer , Jiun-Yun Li , Tzu-Ming Lu , Dwight R. Luhman

Silicon spin qubits are marred by the valley degeneracy of the conduction band. In a nanodevice, the degeneracy is lifted by interfaces and alloy disorder, but the arising valley splitting is small, of order 100 $\mu$eV in Si/SiGe quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Lukas Cvitkovich , Peter Stano , Dominique Bougeard , Yann-Michel Niquet , Daniel Loss

Properties of quantum dot based spin qubits have significant inter-device variability due to unavoidable presence of various types of disorder in semiconductor nanostructures. A significant source of this variability is charge disorder at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Saeed Samadi , Łukasz Cywiński , Jan A. Krzywda

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

Electron states are studied for quantum dots in a strained Si quantum well, taking into account both valley and orbital physics. Realistic geometries are considered, including circular and elliptical dot shapes, parallel and perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Mark Friesen , S. N. Coppersmith