Valley splitting of single-electron Si MOS quantum dots

Abstract

Silicon-based metal-oxide-semiconductor quantum dots are prominent candidates for high-fidelity, manufacturable qubits. Due to silicon's band structure, additional low-energy states persist in these devices, presenting both challenges and opportunities. Although the physics governing these valley states has been the subject of intense study, quantitative agreement between experiment and theory remains elusive. Here, we present data from an experiment probing the valley states of quantum dot devices and develop a theory that is in quantitative agreement with both this and a recently reported experiment. Through sampling millions of realistic cases of interface roughness, our method provides evidence that the valley physics between the two samples is essentially the same.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Dec 19, 2016
Source ID
10.1063/1.4972514

Entities

People

  • Alessandro Rossi
  • Andrew Baczewski
  • Andrew S. Dzurak
  • Erik Nielsen
  • Henry Yang
  • Inès Montaño
  • John King Gamble
  • Leon Maurer
  • M. S. Carroll
  • Martin Rudolph
  • N. Tobias Jacobson
  • Patrick Harvey-collard
  • Richard P. Muller

Organizations

  • Army Research Office
  • Australian National Fabrication Facility
  • Australian Research Council
  • Sandia National Laboratories
  • United States Department of Energy
  • University of Cambridge
  • University of New South Wales
  • University of Sherbrooke

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.
  • Regression Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene
  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Science - Quantum Dots