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arXiv:1110.4983 · Physical Review B

Herzberg circuit and Berry's phase in chirality-based coded qubit in a triangular triple quantum dot

Chang‐Yu Hsieh, Alexandre René, Paweł Hawrylak

Published Sep 6, 2012• 23 citations
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Abstract

We present a theoretical proposal for the Herzberg circuit and controlled accumulation of Berry's phase in a chirality-based coded qubit in a triangular triple quantum dot molecule with one electron each. The qubit is encoded in the two degenerate states of a three-spin complex with total spin $S=1/2$. Using a Hubbard and Heisenberg model the Herzberg circuit encircling the degeneracy point is realized by adiabatically tuning the successive on-site energies of quantum dots and tunnel couplings across a pair of neighboring dots. It is explicitly shown that encircling the degeneracy point leads to the accumulation of the geometrical Berry's phase. We show that only the triangular, not the linear, quantum dot molecule allows for the generation of Berry's phase and we discuss a protocol to detect this geometrical phase.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.86.115312

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In this thesis, I present a microscopic theory of quantum circuits based on interacting electron spins in quantum dot molecules. We use the Linear Combination of Harmonic Orbitals-Configuration Interaction (LCHO-CI) formalism for microscopic calculations. We then derive effective Hubbard, t-J, and Heisenberg models. These models are used to predict the electronic, spin and transport properties of a triple quantum dot molecule (TQDM) as a function of topology, gate configuration, bias and magnetic field. With these theoretical tools and fully characterized TQDMs, we propose the following applications: 1. Voltage tunable qubit encoded in the chiral states of a half-filled TQDM. We show how to perform single qubit operations by pulsing voltages. We propose the "chirality-to-charge" conversion as the measurement scheme and demonstrate the robustness of the chirality-encoded qubit due to charge fluctuations. We derive an effective qubit-qubit Hamiltonian and demonstrate the two-qubit gate. This provides all the necessary operations for a quantum computer built with chirality-encoded qubits. 2. Berry's phase. We explore the prospect of geometric quantum computing with chirality-encoded qubit. We construct a Herzberg circuit in the voltage space and show the accumulation of Berry's phase. 3. Macroscopic quantum states on a semiconductor chip. We consider a linear chain of TQDMs, each with 4 electrons, obtained by nanostructuring a metallic gate in a field effect transistor. We theoretically show that the low energy spectrum of the chain maps onto that of a spin-1 chain. Hence, we show that macroscopic quantum states, protected by a Haldane gap from the continuum, emerge. In order to minimize decoherence of electron spin qubits, we consider using electron spins in the p orbitals of the valence band (valence holes) as qubits. We develop a theory of valence hole qubit within the 4-band k.p model. We show that static magnetic fields can be used to perform single qubit operations. We also show that the qubit-qubit interactions are sensitive to the geometry of a quantum dot network. For vertical qubit arrays, we predict that there exists an optimal qubit separation suitable for the voltage control of qubit-qubit interactions.
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In quantum computing based on semiconductor quantum dots, adding dots (or just electrons) allows a wider search for an optimal qubit-encoding scheme that is both controllable and coherent. This work reports experiments to realize a hybrid charge-spin qubit in a linear triple quantum dot with asymmetric tunnel couplings, in a multielectron charge configuration. This qubit's energy splitting can be tuned conveniently over a wide range, and the authors attain qualitative understanding of the observations in terms of a three-electron system. This should stimulate further exploration of quantum coherent dynamics in the few-electron regime for semiconductor quantum processors.
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