Strong spin-photon coupling in silicon
N. Samkharadze (TU Delft - QCD/Vandersypen Lab, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre, Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft)
G. Zheng (Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft, TU Delft - QCD/Vandersypen Lab, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre)
N. Kalhor (TU Delft - QCD/Vandersypen Lab, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre, Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft)
D. Brousse (TU Delft - BUS/General, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre)
A. Sammak (TU Delft - Business Development)
U. C. Mendes (University of Sherbrooke)
A. Blais (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of Sherbrooke)
G. Scappucci (Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre, TU Delft - QCD/Scappucci Lab)
L. M.K. Vandersypen (TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre, Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft, TU Delft - QN/Vandersypen Lab, TU Delft - QCD/Vandersypen Lab)
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Abstract
Long coherence times of single spins in silicon quantum dots make these systems highly attractive for quantum computation, but how to scale up spin qubit systems remains an open question. As a first step to address this issue, we demonstrate the strong coupling of a single electron spin and a single microwave photon. The electron spin is trapped in a silicon double quantum dot, and the microwave photon is stored in an on-chip high-impedance superconducting resonator. The electric field component of the cavity photon couples directly to the charge dipole of the electron in the double dot, and indirectly to the electron spin, through a strong local magnetic field gradient from a nearby micromagnet. Our results provide a route to realizing large networks of quantum dot–based spin qubit registers.