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Valley splitting of single-electron Si MOS quantum dots

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Authors

Gamble, JK 
Harvey-Collard, P 
Jacobson, NT 
Baczewski, AD 
Nielsen, E 

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.

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Keywords

5108 Quantum Physics, 40 Engineering, 51 Physical Sciences, 4018 Nanotechnology, 5104 Condensed Matter Physics

Journal Title

Applied Physics Letters

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Journal ISSN

0003-6951
1077-3118

Volume Title

109

Publisher

American Institute of Physics
Sponsorship
European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) Marie Sk?odowska-Curie actions (654712)
J.K.G. gratefully acknowledges support from the Sandia National Laboratories Truman Fellowship Program, which is funded by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program. This work was performed, in part, at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, an Office of Science User Facility operated for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science. C.H.Y. and A.S.D. acknowledge support from the Australian Research Council (CE11E0001017), the U.S. Army Research Office (W911NF-13-1-0024) and the NSW Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility. A.R. acknowledges support from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 654712 (SINHOPSI).