23 research outputs found
Electric-field tuning of the valley splitting in silicon corner dots
We perform an excited state spectroscopy analysis of a silicon corner dot in
a nanowire field-effect transistor to assess the electric field tunability of
the valley splitting. First, we demonstrate a back-gate-controlled transition
between a single quantum dot and a double quantum dot in parallel that allows
tuning the device in to corner dot formation. We find a linear dependence of
the valley splitting on back-gate voltage, from to with a slope of (or equivalently a slope
of with respect to the effective field). The
experimental results are backed up by tight-binding simulations that include
the effect of surface roughness, remote charges in the gate stack and discrete
dopants in the channel. Our results demonstrate a way to electrically tune the
valley splitting in silicon-on-insulator-based quantum dots, a requirement to
achieve all-electrical manipulation of silicon spin qubits.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures. In this version: Discussion of model expanded;
Fig. 3 updated; Refs. added (15, 22, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37
Tunable hole spin-photon interaction based on g-matrix modulation
We consider a spin circuit-QED device where a superconducting microwave
resonator is capacitively coupled to a single hole confined in a semiconductor
quantum dot. Thanks to the strong spin-orbit coupling intrinsic to valence-band
states, the gyromagnetic g-matrix of the hole can be modulated electrically.
This modulation couples the photons in the resonator to the hole spin. We show
that the applied gate voltages and the magnetic-field orientation enable a
versatile control of the spin-photon interaction, whose character can be
switched from fully transverse to fully longitudinal. The longitudinal coupling
is actually maximal when the transverse one vanishes and vice-versa. This
"reciprocal sweetness" results from geometrical properties of the g-matrix and
protects the spin against dephasing or relaxation. We estimate coupling rates
reaching ~ 10 MHz in realistic settings and discuss potential circuit-QED
applications harnessing either the transverse or the longitudinal spin-photon
interaction. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the g-matrix curvature can be
used to achieve parametric longitudinal coupling with enhanced coherence