Low disorder and high valley splitting in silicon

D Degli Esposti, LEA Stehouwer, Ö Gül… - npj Quantum …, 2024 - nature.com
The electrical characterisation of classical and quantum devices is a critical step in the
development cycle of heterogeneous material stacks for semiconductor spin qubits. In the …

Valley-free silicon fins caused by shear strain

C Adelsberger, S Bosco, J Klinovaja, D Loss - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Electron spins confined in silicon quantum dots are promising candidates for large-scale
quantum computers. However, the degeneracy of the conduction band of bulk silicon …

Exciton transport in a germanium quantum dot ladder

TK Hsiao, P Cova Fariña, SD Oosterhout, D Jirovec… - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
Quantum systems with engineered Hamiltonians can be used to study many-body physics
problems to provide insights beyond the capabilities of classical computers. Semiconductor …

Single-electron occupation in quantum dot arrays at selectable plunger gate voltage

M Meyer, C Déprez, IN Meijer, FK Unseld, S Karwal… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
The small footprint of semiconductor qubits is favorable for scalable quantum computing.
However, their size also makes them sensitive to their local environment and variations in …

Coherent control of a triangular exchange-only spin qubit

E Acuna, JD Broz, K Shyamsundar, AB Mei… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
We demonstrate coherent control of a three-electron exchange-only spin qubit with the
quantum dots arranged in a close-packed triangular geometry. The device is tuned to …

Highly tunable 2D silicon quantum dot array with coupling beyond nearest neighbors

N Wang, JM Kang, WL Lu, SM Wang, YJ Wang… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Scaling up quantum dots to two-dimensional (2D) arrays is a crucial step for advancing
semiconductor quantum computation. However, maintaining excellent tunability of quantum …

Impact of electrostatic crosstalk on spin qubits in dense cmos quantum dot arrays

JD Cifuentes, T Tanttu, P Steinacker, S Serrano… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Current complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) quantum processors employ
dense gate arrays to define quantum dots, making them susceptible to crosstalk from …

[HTML][HTML] Leveraging off-the-shelf silicon chips for quantum computing

J Michniewicz, MS Kim - Applied Physics Letters, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
There is a growing demand for quantum computing across various sectors, including
finance, materials, and studying chemical reactions. A promising implementation involves …

Coupling conduction-band valleys in SiGe heterostructures via shear strain and Ge concentration oscillations

BD Woods, H Soomro, ES Joseph, CCD Frink… - npj Quantum …, 2024 - nature.com
Engineering conduction-band valley couplings is a key challenge for Si-based spin qubits.
Recent work has shown that the most reliable method for enhancing valley couplings entails …

Mitigating variability in epitaxial-heterostructure-based spin-qubit devices by optimizing gate layout

B Martinez, S de Franceschi, YM Niquet - Physical Review Applied, 2024 - APS
The scalability of spin-qubit devices is conditioned by qubit-to-qubit variability. Disorder in
the host materials indeed affects the wave functions of the confined carriers, which leads to …