AIP conference proceedings
Silicon Quantum Computer
Kohei M. Itoh
Abstract
Our progress towards realization of the all‐silicon solid‐state NMR quantum computer [PRL, 89, 017901 (2002) and revised version] is reported. We show experimentally that the phase memory time TM (or phase decoherence time T2) of 29Si nuclear spins in single‐crystal Si at room temperature can be extended up to 25 s (and possibly more) using RF decoupling techniques [quant‐ph/0309164 (2003)]. A simple estimate shows that a T2 of 25 s will allow for 106 single‐qubit and 104 two‐qubit operations, by far the largest number of operations possible among existing solid‐state quantum computer schemes. Recent progress in materials science needed for the realization of the all‐silicon quantum computer is also discussed.