How to study quantum physics with silicon nano-structures

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• Giuseppe C. Tettamanzi
• Wednesday 14 September 2016, 15:00-16:00
• MRC seminar room - Cavendish Laboratory.

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On-demand transfer of single electrons via semiconductor nano-structures has attracted great interest in the context of quantum technologies since the early 90s. This technique, initially developed to enable a quantum realisation of the unit ampere, more recently has proved to be key for other emerging applications, including the possibility to create single-photon sources [1].

At present, the best certified accuracy of the charge transfer has been achieved with GaAs quantum dot (QD)-based pumps [2]. However, in order to optimally operate these devices, demanding experimental conditions are required, such as very large perpendicular magnetic field, millikelvin temperature, and, in some case, specially tailored waveform of the driving signal [3]. In this context, Si implementations promise to significantly simplify these operation requirements in light of the mature single dopant [4] and other metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) [5,6,7,8] technologies by offering good control of the electrostatic confinement.

After having discussed some of our recent published results [4], I will introduce the single atom dopant transistor system and I will also discuss a new model used to describe the pumping behaviour observed in our single dopant devices [4,6]. Furthermore, I will show how, by improving upon some previous [5] silicon QD device design, we have achieved tighter electrostatic confinement and charging energies in excess of 30 meV in the few-electron regime also for MOS Q Ds, hence allowing some very high frequency of pumping operation [8].

[1] C.L. Foden et al., Phys. Rev. A, 62, 011803 (2000). [2] F. Stein et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 103501 (2015). [3] S.P. Giblin et al., Nature Comm. 3, 930 (2012). [4] G. C. Tettamanzi et al., New J. Phys. 16 (6), 063036 (2014). [5] A. Rossi, G.C. Tettamanzi, et al., Nano Lett. 14, 3405 (2014).

[7] G. Yamahata et al., Nature Comm. 5, 5038 (2012). [8] A. Rossi, G. C. Tettamanzi et al., in preparation.

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