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The presence of valley states is a significant obstacle to realizing quantum information technologies in Silicon quantum dots, as leakage into alternate valley states can introduce errors into the computation. We use a perturbative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Donovan Buterakos , Sankar Das Sarma

Exchange coupling is a key ingredient for spin-based quantum technologies since it can be used to entangle spin qubits and create logical spin qubits. However, the influence of the electronic valley degree of freedom in silicon on exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 J. Salfi , B. Voisin , A. Tankasala , J. Bocquel , M. Usman , M. Y. Simmons , L. C. L. Hollenberg , R. Rahman , S. Rogge

The energies of valley-orbit states in silicon quantum dots are determined by an as yet poorly understood interplay between interface roughness, orbital confinement, and electron interactions. Here, we report measurements of one- and…

The interplay between quantum Hall ordering and spontaneously broken "internal" symmetries in two-dimensional electron systems with spin or pseudospin degrees of freedom gives rise to a variety of interesting phenomena, including novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-22 D. A. Abanin , S. A. Parameswaran , S. A. Kivelson , S. L. Sondhi

Full-scale quantum computers require the integration of millions of quantum bits. The promise of leveraging industrial semiconductor manufacturing to meet this requirement has fueled the pursuit of quantum computing in silicon quantum dots.…

Silicon quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize technology with capabilities to solve real-life problems that are computationally complex or even intractable for modern computers [1] by offering sufficient high quality qubits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Dylan H. Liang , MengKe Feng , Philip Y. Mai , Jesus D. Cifuentes , Andrew S. Dzurak , Andre Saraiva

In the "flopping-mode" regime of electron spin resonance, a single electron confined in a double quantum dot is electrically driven in the presence of a magnetic field gradient. The increased dipole moment of the charge in the flopping mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Steve M. Young , Mitchell Brickson , Jason R. Petta , N. Tobias Jacobson

This paper reports the compatibility of heterostructure-based spin qubit devices with industrial CMOS technology. It features Si/Si-Ge quantum dot devices fabricated using Infineon's 200 mm production line within a restricted thermal…

Ge/Si structures with vertically stacked quantum dots are simulated to implement the basic elements of a quantum computer for operation with electron spin states. Elastic-strain fields are simulated using the conjugate gradient method and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 Yu. N. Morokov , M. P. Fedoruk , A. V. Dvurechenskii , A. F. Zinov'eva , A. V. Nenashev

An error-corrected quantum processor will require millions of qubits, accentuating the advantage of nanoscale devices with small footprints, such as silicon quantum dots. However, as for every device with nanoscale dimensions, disorder at…

The electrical control of single spin qubits based on semiconductor quantum dots is of great interest for scalable quantum computing since electric fields provide an alternative mechanism for qubit control compared with magnetic fields and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Wister Huang , Menno Veldhorst , Neil M. Zimmerman , Andrew S. Dzurak , Dimitrie Culcer

We introduce a silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor quantum dot architecture based on a single polysilicon gate stack. The elementary structure consists of two enhancement gates separated spatially by a gap, one gate forming a reservoir and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-07 S. Rochette , M. Rudolph , A. -M. Roy , M. Curry , G. Ten Eyck , R. Manginell , J. Wendt , T. Pluym , S. M. Carr , D. Ward , M. P. Lilly , M. S. Carroll , M. Pioro-Ladrière

Coherent dressing of a quantum two-level system provides access to a new quantum system with improved properties - a different and easily tuneable level splitting, faster control, and longer coherence times. In our work we investigate the…

Superconducting qubits have been used in the most advanced demonstrations of quantum information processing, and they can be manufactured at-scale using proven semiconductor techniques. This makes them one of the leading technologies in the…

Hole spin qubits are frontrunner platforms for scalable quantum computers because of their large spin-orbit interaction which enables ultrafast all-electric qubit control at low power. The fastest spin qubits to date are defined in long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Stefano Bosco , Daniel Loss

The coupling between $z$ valleys in the conduction band of a Si quantum well arises from phenomena occurring within several atoms from the interface, thus ruling out a theoretical description based on pure effective mass theory. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-26 Sucismita Chutia , S. N. Coppersmith , Mark Friesen

SiGe heteroepitaxial growth yields pristine host material for quantum dot qubits, but residual interface disorder can lead to qubit-to-qubit variability that might pose an obstacle to reliable SiGe-based quantum computing. We demonstrate a…

Spin-valley properties in two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) has attracted significant interest due to the possible applications in quantum computing. Spin-valley properties can be exploited in TMDC…

The presence of low-energy valley excitations in Si/SiGe heterostructures often causes spin qubits to fail. It is therefore important to develop robust protocols for characterizing the valley coupling. Here, we show that realistically sized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Benjamin D. Woods , Merritt P. Losert , Nasir R. Elston , M. A. Eriksson , S. N. Coppersmith , Robert Joynt , Mark Friesen

Recent progress in the fabrication of quantum dots using silicon opens the prospect of observing the Kondo effect associated with the valley degree of freedom. We compute the dot density of states using an Anderson model with infinite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-25 Shiue-yuan Shiau , Sucismita Chutia , Robert Joynt