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Isotopically engineered silicon/silicon-germanium nanostructures as basic elements for a nuclear spin quantum computer
The idea of quantum computation is the most promising recent developments in
the high-tech domain, while experimental realization of a quantum computer
poses a formidable challenge. Among the proposed models especially attractive
are semiconductor based nuclear spin quantum computer's (S-NSQC), where nuclear
spins are used as quantum bistable elements, ''qubits'', coupled to the
electron spin and orbital dynamics. We propose here a scheme for implementation
of basic elements for S-NSQC's which are realizable within achievements of the
modern nanotechnology. These elements are expected to be based on a
nuclear-spin-controlled isotopically engineered Si/SiGe heterojunction, because
in these semiconductors one can vary the abundance of nuclear spins by
engineering the isotopic composition. A specific device is suggested, which
allows one to model the processes of recording, reading and information
transfer on a quantum level using the technique of electrical detection of the
magnetic state of nuclear spins. Improvement of this technique for a
semiconductor system with a relatively small number of nuclei might be applied
to the manipulation of nuclear spin ''qubits'' in the future S-NSQC.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures, PostScript, GS vie
Fast Incomplete Decoherence of Nuclear Spins in Quantum Hall Ferromagnet
A scenario of quantum computing process based on the manipulation of a large
number of nuclear spins in Quantum Hall (QH) ferromagnet is presented. It is
found that vacuum quantum fluctuations in the QH ferromagnetic ground state at
filling factor , associated with the virtual excitations of spin waves,
lead to fast incomplete decoherence of the nuclear spins. A fundamental upper
bound on the length of the computer memory is set by this fluctuation effect
Hyperfine interaction induced critical exponents in the quantum Hall effect
We study localization-delocalization transition in quantum Hall systems with
a random field of nuclear spins acting on two-dimensional (2d) electron spins
via hyperfine contact (Fermi) interaction. We use Chalker-Coddington network
model, which corresponds to the projection onto the lowest Landau level. The
inhomogeneous nuclear polarization acts on the electrons as an additional
confining potential, and, therefore, introduces additional parameter (the
probability to find a polarized nucleus in the vicinity of a saddle point of
random potential) responsible for the change from quantum to classical
behavior. In this manner we obtain two critical exponents corresponding to
quantum and classical percolation. We also study how the 2d extended state
develops into the one-dimensional (1d) critical state.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figure
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