Low disorder and high valley splitting in silicon

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Auteurs principaux: Esposti, Davide Degli, Stehouwer, Lucas E. A., Gül, Önder, Samkharadze, Nodar, Déprez, Corentin, Meyer, Marcel, Meijer, Ilja N., Tryputen, Larysa, Karwal, Saurabh, Botifoll, Marc, Arbiol, Jordi, Amitonov, Sergey V., Vandersypen, Lieven M. K., Sammak, Amir, Veldhorst, Menno, Scappucci, Giordano
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author Esposti, Davide Degli
Stehouwer, Lucas E. A.
Gül, Önder
Samkharadze, Nodar
Déprez, Corentin
Meyer, Marcel
Meijer, Ilja N.
Tryputen, Larysa
Karwal, Saurabh
Botifoll, Marc
Arbiol, Jordi
Amitonov, Sergey V.
Vandersypen, Lieven M. K.
Sammak, Amir
Veldhorst, Menno
Scappucci, Giordano
author_facet Esposti, Davide Degli
Stehouwer, Lucas E. A.
Gül, Önder
Samkharadze, Nodar
Déprez, Corentin
Meyer, Marcel
Meijer, Ilja N.
Tryputen, Larysa
Karwal, Saurabh
Botifoll, Marc
Arbiol, Jordi
Amitonov, Sergey V.
Vandersypen, Lieven M. K.
Sammak, Amir
Veldhorst, Menno
Scappucci, Giordano
contents The electrical characterisation of classical and quantum devices is a critical step in the development cycle of heterogeneous material stacks for semiconductor spin qubits. In the case of silicon, properties such as disorder and energy separation of conduction band valleys are commonly investigated individually upon modifications in selected parameters of the material stack. However, this reductionist approach fails to consider the interdependence between different structural and electronic properties at the danger of optimising one metric at the expense of the others. Here, we achieve a significant improvement in both disorder and valley splitting by taking a co-design approach to the material stack. We demonstrate isotopically-purified, strained quantum wells with high mobility of 3.14(8)$\times$10$^5$ cm$^2$/Vs and low percolation density of 6.9(1)$\times$10$^{10}$ cm$^{-2}$. These low disorder quantum wells support quantum dots with low charge noise of 0.9(3) $μ$eV/Hz$^{1/2}$ and large mean valley splitting energy of 0.24(7) meV, measured in qubit devices. By striking the delicate balance between disorder, charge noise, and valley splitting, these findings provide a benchmark for silicon as a host semiconductor for quantum dot qubits. We foresee the application of these heterostructures in larger, high-performance quantum processors.
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spellingShingle Low disorder and high valley splitting in silicon
Esposti, Davide Degli
Stehouwer, Lucas E. A.
Gül, Önder
Samkharadze, Nodar
Déprez, Corentin
Meyer, Marcel
Meijer, Ilja N.
Tryputen, Larysa
Karwal, Saurabh
Botifoll, Marc
Arbiol, Jordi
Amitonov, Sergey V.
Vandersypen, Lieven M. K.
Sammak, Amir
Veldhorst, Menno
Scappucci, Giordano
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
The electrical characterisation of classical and quantum devices is a critical step in the development cycle of heterogeneous material stacks for semiconductor spin qubits. In the case of silicon, properties such as disorder and energy separation of conduction band valleys are commonly investigated individually upon modifications in selected parameters of the material stack. However, this reductionist approach fails to consider the interdependence between different structural and electronic properties at the danger of optimising one metric at the expense of the others. Here, we achieve a significant improvement in both disorder and valley splitting by taking a co-design approach to the material stack. We demonstrate isotopically-purified, strained quantum wells with high mobility of 3.14(8)$\times$10$^5$ cm$^2$/Vs and low percolation density of 6.9(1)$\times$10$^{10}$ cm$^{-2}$. These low disorder quantum wells support quantum dots with low charge noise of 0.9(3) $μ$eV/Hz$^{1/2}$ and large mean valley splitting energy of 0.24(7) meV, measured in qubit devices. By striking the delicate balance between disorder, charge noise, and valley splitting, these findings provide a benchmark for silicon as a host semiconductor for quantum dot qubits. We foresee the application of these heterostructures in larger, high-performance quantum processors.
title Low disorder and high valley splitting in silicon
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02832