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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

The computational power and fault-tolerance of future large-scale quantum processors derive in large part from the connectivity between the qubits. One approach to increase connectivity is to engineer qubit-qubit interactions at a distance.…

Spin shuttling has crystalized as a powerful and promising tool for establishing intermediate-range connectivity in semiconductor spin-qubit devices. Although experimental demonstrations have performed exceptionally well on different…

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Silicon/silicon-germanium heterostructures have many important advantages for hosting spin qubits. However, controlling the valley splitting (the energy splitting between the two low-lying conduction-band valleys) remains a critical…

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Quantum processor architectures must enable scaling to large qubit numbers while providing two-dimensional qubit connectivity and exquisite operation fidelities. For microwave-controlled semiconductor spin qubits, dense arrays have made…

The bid for scalable physical qubits has attracted many possible candidate platforms. In particular, spin-based qubits in solid-state form factors are attractive as they could potentially benefit from processes similar to those used for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-24 Kuan Eng Johnson Goh , Fabio Bussolotti , Chit Siong Lau , Dharmraj Kotekar-Patil , Zi En Ooi , Jingyee Chee

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…

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Precise control of quantum systems is of fundamental importance for quantum device engineering, such as is needed in the fields of quantum information processing, high-resolution spectroscopy and quantum metrology. When scaling up the…

Electrons confined in silicon quantum dots exhibit orbital, spin, and valley degrees of freedom. The valley degree of freedom originates from the bulk bandstructure of silicon, which has six degenerate electronic minima. The degeneracy can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 F. Borjans , X. Zhang , X. Mi , G. Cheng , N. Yao , C. A. C. Jackson , L. F. Edge , J. R. Petta

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…

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…

In silicon spin qubits, the valley splitting must be tuned far away from the qubit Zeeman splitting to prevent fast qubit relaxation. In this work, we study in detail how the valley splitting depends on the electric and magnetic fields as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Amin Hosseinkhani , Guido Burkard

Semiconductor spin qubits may be coupled through a superconducting cavity to generate an entangling two-qubit gate. However, the fidelity of such an operation will be reduced by a variety of error mechanisms such as charge and magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 Steve M. Young , N. Tobias Jacobson , Jason R. Petta

Electron spins in Si/SiGe quantum wells suffer from nearly degenerate conduction band valleys, which compete with the spin degree of freedom in the formation of qubits. Despite attempts to enhance the valley energy splitting…

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

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

A hybrid quantum computing architecture combining quantum processors and quantum memory units allows for exploiting each component's unique properties to enhance the overall performance of the total system. However, superconducting qubits…

Regardless of various material design strategies, experimentally achieving substantial and controllable valley splitting in Si/SiGe quantum wells remains a central challenge for ensuring high gate uniformity. This difficulty arises from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Yang Liu , Gang Wang , Shan Guan , Jun-Wei Luo , Shu-Shen Li

Recent advances in coherent conveyor-mode spin qubit shuttling are paving the way for large-scale quantum computing platforms with qubit connectivity achieved by spin qubit shuttles. We developed a simulation tool to investigate numerically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Nils Ciroth , Arnau Sala , Ran Xue , Lasse Ermoneit , Thomas Koprucki , Markus Kantner , Lars R. Schreiber

Shuttling spins with high fidelity is a key requirement to scale up semiconducting quantum computers, enabling qubit entanglement over large distances and favoring the integration of control electronics on-chip. To decouple the spin from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 Stefano Bosco , Ji Zou , Daniel Loss