Single electron Spin Resonance in a Quadruple Quantum Dot

Abstract

Electron spins in semiconductor quantum dots are good candidates of quantum bits for quantum information processing. Basic operations of the qubit have been realized in recent years: initialization, manipulation of single spins, two qubit entanglement operations, and readout. Now it becomes crucial to demonstrate scalability of this architecture by conducting spin operations on a scaled up system. Here, we demonstrate single-electron spin resonance in a quadruple quantum dot. A few-electron quadruple quantum dot is formed within a magnetic field gradient created by a micro-magnet. We oscillate the wave functions of the electrons in the quantum dots by applying microwave voltages and this induces electron spin resonance. The resonance energies of the four quantum dots are slightly different because of the stray field created by the micro-magnet and therefore frequency-resolved addressable control of each electron spin resonance is possible.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 23, 2016
Accession Number
AD1076832

Entities

People

  • Akito Noiri
  • Andreas D. Wieck
  • Arne Ludwig
  • Giles Allison
  • Jun Yoneda
  • Kenta Takeda
  • Matthieu R. Delbecq
  • Retsu Sugawara
  • Seigo Tarucha
  • Shinichi Amaha
  • Takashi Nakajima
  • Takumi Ito
  • Tomohiro Otsuka

Organizations

  • RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Electron Spin Resonance
  • Electrons
  • Exclusion Principle
  • Frequency
  • Information Processing
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Nuclear Spins
  • Quantum Bits
  • Quantum Dots
  • Quantum Information
  • Radio Frequency
  • Resonance
  • Semiconductors
  • Spin Resonance
  • Spin States

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.
  • Quantum spin resonance or Electron Paramagnetic Resonance spectroscopy.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Science - Quantum Dots