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Coulomb-Modified Fano Resonance in a One-Lead Quantum Dot
We investigate a tunable Fano interferometer consisting of a quantum dot
coupled via tunneling to a one-dimensional channel. In addition to Fano
resonance, the channel shows strong Coulomb response to the dot, with a single
electron modulating channel conductance by factors of up to 100. Where these
effects coexist, lineshapes with up to four extrema are found. A model of
Coulomb-modified Fano resonance is developed and gives excellent agreement with
experiment.Comment: related papers available at http://marcuslab.harvard.ed
Self-assembled ErAs islands in GaAs for optical-heterodyne THz generation
We report photomixer devices fabricated on a material consisting of self-assembled ErAs islands in GaAs, which is grown by molecular beam epitaxy. The devices perform comparably and provide an alternative to those made from low-temperature-grown GaAs. The photomixer's frequency response demonstrates that the material is a photoconductor with subpicosecond response time, in agreement with time-resolved differential reflectance measurements. The material also provides the other needed properties such as high photocarrier mobility and high breakdown field, which exceeds 2×10^5 V/cm. The maximum output power before device failure at frequencies of 1 THz was of order 0.1 µW. This material has the potential to allow engineering of key photomixer properties such as the response time and dark resistance
Electron spin interferometry using a semiconductor ring structure
A ring structure fabricated from GaAs is used to achieve interference of the
net spin polarization of conduction band electrons. Optically polarized spins
are split into two packets by passing through two arms of the ring in the
diffusive transport regime. Optical pumping with circularly polarized light on
one arm establishes dynamic nuclear polarization which acts as a local
effective magnetic field on electron spins due to the hyperfine interaction.
This local field causes one spin packet to precess faster than the other,
thereby controlling the spin interference when the two packets are combined.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Fast Single-Charge Sensing with an rf Quantum Point Contact
We report high-bandwidth charge sensing measurements using a GaAs quantum
point contact embedded in a radio frequency impedance matching circuit
(rf-QPC). With the rf-QPC biased near pinch-off where it is most sensitive to
charge, we demonstrate a conductance sensitivity of 5x10^(-6) e^(2)/h Hz^(-1/2)
with a bandwidth of 8 MHz. Single-shot readout of a proximal few-electron
double quantum dot is investigated in a mode where the rf-QPC back-action is
rapidly switched.Comment: related papers available at http://marcuslab.harvard.ed
Multiple layer local oxidation for fabricating semiconductor nanostructures
Coupled semiconductor nanostructures with a high degree of tunability are
fabricated using local oxidation with a scanning force microscope. Direct
oxidation of the GaAs surface of a Ga[Al]As heterostructure containing a
shallow two-dimensional electron gas is combined with the local oxidation of a
thin titanium film evaporated on top. A four-terminal quantum dot and a double
quantum dot system with integrated charge readout are realized. The structures
are tunable via in-plane gates formed by isolated regions in the electron gas
and by mutually isolated regions of the Ti film acting as top gates. Coulomb
blockade experiments demonstrate the high quality of this fabrication process.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figure
Interlaced Dynamical Decoupling and Coherent Operation of a Singlet-Triplet Qubit
We experimentally demonstrate coherence recovery of singlet-triplet
superpositions by interlacing qubit rotations between Carr-Purcell (CP) echo
sequences. We then compare performance of Hahn, CP, concatenated dynamical
decoupling (CDD) and Uhrig dynamical decoupling (UDD) for singlet recovery. In
the present case, where gate noise and drift combined with spatially varying
hyperfine coupling contribute significantly to dephasing, and pulses have
limited bandwidth, CP and CDD yield comparable results, with T2 ~ 80
microseconds.Comment: related papers at http://marcuslab.harvard.ed
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