Theory and technology of SPASERs

M Premaratne, MI Stockman - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Spaser is an acronym for surface plasmon amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.
A spaser is effectively a nanoscale laser with subwavelength dimensions and a low-Q …

Non-adiabatic quantized charge pum** with tunable-barrier quantum dots: a review of current progress

B Kaestner, V Kashcheyevs - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Precise manipulation of individual charge carriers in nanoelectronic circuits underpins
practical applications of their most basic quantum property—the universality and invariance …

Shuttling a single charge across a one-dimensional array of silicon quantum dots

AR Mills, DM Zajac, MJ Gullans, FJ Schupp… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Significant advances have been made towards fault-tolerant operation of silicon spin qubits,
with single qubit fidelities exceeding 99.9%, several demonstrations of two-qubit gates …

Photoelectrical imaging and coherent spin-state readout of single nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond

P Siyushev, M Nesladek, E Bourgeois, M Gulka… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have become an important instrument for
quantum sensing and quantum information science. However, the readout of NV spin state …

Ultrastable low-noise current amplifier: A novel device for measuring small electric currents with high accuracy

D Drung, C Krause, U Becker, H Scherer… - Review of Scientific …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
An ultrastable low-noise current amplifier (ULCA) is presented. The ULCA is a non-
cryogenic instrument based on specially designed operational amplifiers and resistor …

Gigahertz single-electron pum** in silicon with an accuracy better than 9.2 parts in 107

G Yamahata, SP Giblin, M Kataoka, T Karasawa… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
High-speed and high-accuracy pum** of a single electron is crucial for realizing an
accurate current source, which is a promising candidate for a quantum current standard …

Validation of a quantized-current source with 0.2 ppm uncertainty

F Stein, D Drung, L Fricke, H Scherer, F Hohls… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We report on high-accuracy measurements of quantized current, sourced by a tunable-
barrier single-electron pump at frequencies f up to 1 GHz. The measurements were …

Robustness of single-electron pumps at sub-ppm current accuracy level

F Stein, H Scherer, T Gerster, R Behr, M Götz… - Metrologia, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on characterizations of single-electron pumps at the highest accuracy level,
enabled by improvements of the small-current measurement technique. With these …

Evidence for universality of tunable-barrier electron pumps

SP Giblin, A Fujiwara, G Yamahata, MH Bae, N Kim… - Metrologia, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We review recent precision measurements on semiconductor tunable-barrier electron
pumps operating in a ratchet mode. Seven studies on five different designs of pumps have …

Precision measurement of an electron pump at 2 GHz; the frontier of small DC current metrology

SP Giblin, G Yamahata, A Fujiwara, M Kataoka - Metrologia, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
A well-characterised sample of silicon tunable-barrier electron pump has been operated at a
frequency of 2 GHz using a custom drive waveform, generating a pump current of 320 pA …