Transport through an impurity tunnel coupled to a Si/SiGe quantum dot

Abstract

Achieving controllable coupling of dopants in silicon is crucial for operating donor-based qubit devices, but it is difficult because of the small size of donor-bound electron wavefunctions. Here, we report the characterization of a quantum dot coupled to a localized electronic state and present evidence of controllable coupling between the quantum dot and the localized state. A set of measurements of transport through the device enable the determination that the most likely location of the localized state is consistent with a location in the quantum well near the edge of the quantum dot. Our results are consistent with a gate-voltage controllable tunnel coupling, which is an important building block for hybrid donor and gate-defined quantum dot devices.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Sep 07, 2015
Source ID
10.1063/1.4930909

Entities

People

  • AndrĂ© Saraiva
  • Brandur Thorgrimsson
  • D. E. Savage
  • Daniel R. Ward
  • Erik Nielsen
  • J. R. Prance
  • John King Gamble
  • M. A. Eriksson
  • Mark Friesen
  • Ryan H Foote
  • S. N. Coppersmith

Organizations

  • Army Research Office
  • Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
  • National Science Foundation
  • Sandia National Laboratories
  • University of Lancaster
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Science - Quantum Dots