Mapping of valley-splitting by conveyor-mode spin-coherent electron shuttling

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Main Authors: Volmer, Mats, Struck, Tom, Sala, Arnau, Chen, Bingjie, Oberländer, Max, Offermann, Tobias, Xue, Ran, Visser, Lino, Tu, Jhih-Sian, Trellenkamp, Stefan, Cywiński, Łukasz, Bluhm, Hendrik, Schreiber, Lars R.
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author Volmer, Mats
Struck, Tom
Sala, Arnau
Chen, Bingjie
Oberländer, Max
Offermann, Tobias
Xue, Ran
Visser, Lino
Tu, Jhih-Sian
Trellenkamp, Stefan
Cywiński, Łukasz
Bluhm, Hendrik
Schreiber, Lars R.
author_facet Volmer, Mats
Struck, Tom
Sala, Arnau
Chen, Bingjie
Oberländer, Max
Offermann, Tobias
Xue, Ran
Visser, Lino
Tu, Jhih-Sian
Trellenkamp, Stefan
Cywiński, Łukasz
Bluhm, Hendrik
Schreiber, Lars R.
contents In Si/SiGe heterostructures, the low-lying excited valley state seriously limit operability and scalability of electron spin qubits. For characterizing and understanding the local variations in valley splitting, fast probing methods with high spatial and energy resolution are lacking. Leveraging the spatial control granted by conveyor-mode spin-coherent electron shuttling, we introduce a method for two-dimensional mapping of the local valley splitting by detecting magnetic field dependent anticrossings of ground and excited valley states using entangled electron spin-pairs as a probe. The method has sub-μeV energy accuracy and a nanometer lateral resolution. The histogram of valley splittings spanning a large area of 210 nm by 18 nm matches well with statistics obtained by the established but time-consuming magnetospectroscopy method. For the specific heterostructure, we find a nearly Gaussian distribution of valley splittings and a correlation length similar to the quantum dot size. Our mapping method may become a valuable tool for engineering Si/SiGe heterostructures for scalable quantum computing.
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spellingShingle Mapping of valley-splitting by conveyor-mode spin-coherent electron shuttling
Volmer, Mats
Struck, Tom
Sala, Arnau
Chen, Bingjie
Oberländer, Max
Offermann, Tobias
Xue, Ran
Visser, Lino
Tu, Jhih-Sian
Trellenkamp, Stefan
Cywiński, Łukasz
Bluhm, Hendrik
Schreiber, Lars R.
Quantum Physics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
In Si/SiGe heterostructures, the low-lying excited valley state seriously limit operability and scalability of electron spin qubits. For characterizing and understanding the local variations in valley splitting, fast probing methods with high spatial and energy resolution are lacking. Leveraging the spatial control granted by conveyor-mode spin-coherent electron shuttling, we introduce a method for two-dimensional mapping of the local valley splitting by detecting magnetic field dependent anticrossings of ground and excited valley states using entangled electron spin-pairs as a probe. The method has sub-μeV energy accuracy and a nanometer lateral resolution. The histogram of valley splittings spanning a large area of 210 nm by 18 nm matches well with statistics obtained by the established but time-consuming magnetospectroscopy method. For the specific heterostructure, we find a nearly Gaussian distribution of valley splittings and a correlation length similar to the quantum dot size. Our mapping method may become a valuable tool for engineering Si/SiGe heterostructures for scalable quantum computing.
title Mapping of valley-splitting by conveyor-mode spin-coherent electron shuttling
topic Quantum Physics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.17694