Reducing charge noise in quantum dots by using thin silicon quantum wells

Charge noise in the host semiconductor degrades the performance of spin-qubits and poses an obstacle to control large quantum processors. However, it is challenging to engineer the heterogeneous material stack of gate-defined quantum dots to improve charge noise systematically. Here, we address the semiconductor-dielectric interface and the...

Silicon/silicon-germanium heterostructures for spin-qubit quantum processors

Spin qubits in silicon have emerged as a promising candidate for a scalable quantum computer due to their small footprint, long coherence times, and their compatibility with advanced semiconductor manufacturing. However, all known spin qubit material hosts come with specific challenges, that limit the performance of quantum information...

Wafer-scale low-disorder 2DEG in ²⁸Si/SiGe without an epitaxial Si cap

We grow 28Si/SiGe heterostructures by reduced-pressure chemical vapor deposition and terminate the stack without an epitaxial Si cap but with an amorphous Si-rich layer obtained by exposing the SiGe barrier to dichlorosilane at 500 °C. As a result, 28Si/SiGe heterostructure field-effect transistors feature a sharp semiconductor/dielectric...

Three-Dimensional Atomic-Scale Tomography of Buried Semiconductor Heterointerfaces

Atom probes generate three-dimensional atomic-scale tomographies of material volumes corresponding to the size of modern-day solid-state devices. Here, the capabilities of atom probe tomography are evaluated to analyze buried interfaces in semiconductor heterostructures relevant for electronic and quantum devices. Employing brute-force search...

Atomic fluctuations lifting the energy degeneracy in Si/SiGe quantum dots

Electron spins in Si/SiGe quantum wells suffer from nearly degenerate conduction band valleys, which compete with the spin degree of freedom in the formation of qubits. Despite attempts to enhance the valley energy splitting deterministically, by engineering a sharp interface, valley splitting fluctuations remain a serious problem for qubit...

Universal control of a six-qubit quantum processor in silicon

Future quantum computers capable of solving relevant problems will require a large number of qubits that can be operated reliably1. However, the requirements of having a large qubit count and operating with high fidelity are typically conflicting. Spins in semiconductor quantum dots show long-term promise2,3 but demonstrations so far use...

CMOS-based cryogenic control of silicon quantum circuits

The most promising quantum algorithms require quantum processors that host millions of quantum bits when targeting practical applications¹. A key challenge towards large-scale quantum computation is the interconnect complexity. In current solid-state qubit implementations, an important interconnect bottleneck appears between the...

Quantum dot arrays in silicon and germanium

Electrons and holes confined in quantum dots define excellent building blocks for quantum emergence, simulation, and computation. Silicon and germanium are compatible with standard semiconductor manufacturing and contain stable isotopes with zero nuclear spin, thereby serving as excellent hosts for spins with long quantum coherence. Here, we...

Multiplexed quantum transport using commercial off-the-shelf CMOS at sub-kelvin temperatures

Continuing advancements in quantum information processing have caused a paradigm shift from research mainly focused on testing the reality of quantum mechanics to engineering qubit devices with numbers required for practical quantum computation. One of the major challenges in scaling toward large-scale solid-state systems is the limited input...

Effect of Quantum Hall Edge Strips on Valley Splitting in Silicon Quantum Wells

We determine the energy splitting of the conduction-band valleys in two-dimensional electrons confined to low-disorder Si quantum wells. We probe the valley splitting dependence on both perpendicular magnetic field B and Hall density by performing activation energy measurements in the quantum Hall regime over a large range of filling factors....