Journal article

Spatially resolving valley quantum interference of a donor in silicon

J Salfi, JA Mol, R Rahman, G Klimeck, MY Simmons, LCL Hollenberg, S Rogge

Nature Materials | Published : 2014

Abstract

Electron and nuclear spins of donor ensembles in isotopically pure silicon experience a vacuum-like environment, giving them extraordinary coherence. However, in contrast to a real vacuum, electrons in silicon occupy quantum superpositions of valleys in momentum space. Addressable single-qubit and two-qubit operations in silicon require that qubits are placed near interfaces, modifying the valley degrees of freedom associated with these quantum superpositions and strongly influencing qubit relaxation and exchange processes. Yet to date, spectroscopic measurements have only probed wavefunctions indirectly, preventing direct experimental access to valley population, donor position and environm..

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Funding Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank J. Verduijn for helpful discussions. This work is supported by the European Commission Future and Emerging Technologies Proactive Project MULTI (317707) and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CE110001027), and in part by the US Army Research Office (W911NF-08-1-0527). This work is part of the research program of the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM), which is part of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). S. R. acknowledges a Future Fellowship (FT100100589). M.Y.S. acknowledges a Laureate Fellowship. The use of nanoHUB.org computational resources operated by the Network for Computational Nanotechnology funded by the US National Science Foundation under grant EEC-0228390 is gratefully acknowledged.