In the last decade, a lot of effort have gone to find the most appropriate physical implementation of quantum computer. Quantum dot based system is one of the most promising system owing to its integrability with classical computation hardware and its versatility in realizing qubits and quantum gates. In this work, we propose a model for quantum dot based realization of qubits and quantum gates. The proposed system makes use of semiconductor hetrostructure based quantum dots and gate voltages to confine electrons and thus defining the qubits. Electron spin resonance is used to manipulate the spin state of the electrons. We implement single, double and triple qubit systems and two most widely used universal sets of quantum gates. We show full control of Bloch sphere in single qubit system, CNOT gate implementation in double qubit system and a novel way to implement Toffoli gate in triple qubit system.
In the last decade, a lot of effort have gone to find the most appropriate physical implementation of quantum computer. Quantum dot based system is one of the most promising system owing to its integrability with classical computation hardware and its versatility in realizing qubits and quantum gates. In this work, we propose a model for quantum dot based realization of qubits and quantum gates. The proposed system makes use of semiconductor hetrostructure based quantum dots and gate voltages to confine electrons and thus defining the qubits. Electron spin resonance is used to manipulate the spin state of the electrons. We implement single, double and triple qubit systems and two most widely used universal sets of quantum gates. We show full control of Bloch sphere in single qubit system, CNOT gate implementation in double qubit system and a novel way to implement Toffoli gate in triple qubit system.
This work tries to model Single, Double and Triple electrons, spins based gates using quantum dot. These gates form universal gates in quantum computation and are building block of all logic circuits based on quantum gates. These spins are based on electrons which now days can be easily confined in quantum dots using a combination of hetero-structure and metal electrodes [5]. The modelling has taken analytical approach (One and Two Electron System [15], [10], [14]) wherever possible and numerical approach (Three Electron System). The spin manipulations in above three system, show us how to implement some of the important gates in quantum computing [NOT, CNOT,TOFFOLI etc.] in spin based quantum dot system. We think the TOFFOLI implementation is a novel architecture for a electron spin based system. We will also comment on the physical aspect of the simulation work wherever possible . We will also workout the aspect of quantum noise of the system which would be based on Davies Master(DM) Equation [8] based on Markovian approximation and Weak Coupling to the surrounding
A two-level quantum system is the building block of a quantum computer. This pair of quantum states defines the computational unit of a quantum computer, and it is called a quantum bit or qubit in analogy to the bit that is the binary unit of a classical computer. The spin of a single electron naturally defines such a two-level quantum system. A quantum dot can be tuned to the single-electron regime, and an array of singly occupied quantum dots provides a multi-qubit register. This thesis describes the multielectron encoding of a spin qubit using a pair or a trio of quantum dots, and it analyzes the coherence properties and manipulation protocols of this system. The singlet-triplet qubit, coded using the singlet state and the spinless triplet state of a pair of singly occupied quantum dots, can be controlled all electrically when applying voltages to gates close to the quantum dot structure. Rapid, subnanosecond modifications of the double quantum dot's charge configuration have been realized successfully. A small magnetic field gradient across the double quantum dot enables universal qubit control. Two modifications of the normal singlet-triplet encoding are introduced. (1) The six-electron configuration of a double quantum dot encodes a singlet-triplet qubit in the same way as for the two-electron double quantum dot. Two electrons at each quantum dot are irrelevant for the qubit manipulations because they are paired in a singlet state; the remaining two electrons encode the qubit. The qubit's wave function is immune to charge noise at moderate out-of-plane magnetic fields. (2) A singlet-triplet qubit encoded using two quantum dots of different sizes has an orbital state degeneracy of the singlet state and the spinless triplet state at finite out-of-plane magnetic fields. Spin-orbit interactions lift this state degeneracy, while the magnitude of the state coupling is determined by the size difference of the QDs. This setup enables the manipulations of singlet-triplet qubits without the need for magnetic field gradients. Finally, two-qubit gates between singlet-triplet qubits are proposed that use mediated exchange interactions via one quantum state. These operations are well controlled and highly noise insensitive. Orbital interactions alone can control spin qubits coded in a three electron Hilbert space. For example, the exchange-only qubit is encoded using three singly occupied quantum dots. The exchange interactions of two quantum dot pairs need to be modified to manipulate this qubit. The noise sensitivity of the exchange-only qubit is discussed. Alternatively, a three-electron qubit at a double quantum dot can be operated when single electrons are transferred between the quantum dots. Fast, subnanosecond manipulations of the double quantum dot's charge configuration are required to realize single-qubit gates. A novel two-qubit pulse gate for the three-electron double quantum dot qubit is proposed.
This thesis addresses the concept of quantum computing with semiconductor quantum dots. The basic unit of a quantum computer is a quantum mechanical two-level system, the so-called quantum bit (qubit). The qubit can be defined as the spin of an electron confined in a quantum dot or as a two-dimensional subspace of the Hilbert space for several spins. Some semiconductors have several minima in their conduction band, socalled valleys. A two-dimensional valley degree of freedom can also be considered as a qubit. In this thesis, quantum registers storing spin as well as valley qubits are described theoretically. Virtual hopping yields an exchange interaction between neighboring quantum dots, which reduces the energy of antisymmetric spin-valley states according to the Pauli principle. Considering the spin and the valley degrees of freedom of two electrons in neighboring quantum dots as qubits, the exchange interaction is a four-qubit interaction. In this thesis, it will be shown that it is, nevertheless, possible to generate a universal two-qubit gate for spin qubits or for valley qubits by combining the exchange interaction and individual single-qubit gates. The exchange interaction in this two-electron double quantum dot directly provides a universal two-qubit gate for one spin and one valley qubit as well. For this, the qubits are defined as suitable subspaces, spanned by the singlet and one triplet state of the spin and the valley states, respectively, Using those gates, arbitrary quantum operations can be performed for single-spin and single-valley qubits in the same quantum register, where in one double quantum dot the quantum states are restricted to the singlet-triplet subspace. While in this register single-spin and single-valley rotations are required, these gates are dispensable in a quantum register storing spin and valley singlet-triplet qubits. The single-qubit operations, in this case, can be provided by the exchange interaction and a gradient in the energy splitting of spin and valley states when the spin qubit is stored in a double quantum dot with spin degrees of freedom only and when the spin states in the double quantum dot which stores the valley qubit are polarized. For providing the two-qubit gate, the spin and the valley qubits need to be stored in the same double quantum dot. The crucial task for this register is to interchange the spin of a spin-only and a spin-valley quantum dot in order to switch between the single-qubit and the two-qubit operation mode. This interchanging of the spin can be achieved by a valley-depending virtual hopping between the quantum dots. Furthermore, echo sequences for a so-called exchange-only qubit are considered. An exchange-only qubit is defined as a subspace in a system of three electron spins in a triple quantum dot. An inhomogeneous magnetic field, which may be caused by nuclear spins in the semiconductor, can lead to decoherence and leakage, i.e., the state might leave the qubit subspace. Suppressing this effect by an echo sequence which consists of pulses interchanging neighboring spin states, so-called SWAP gates, was proposed. Controllability over these quantum operations is provided via the exchange interaction. In this thesis, the performance of different such sequences is investigated. The analysis shows that optimization strategies developed for single spin echoes can be adapted for the three spin system. The echo sequences can be different in their order of applied SWAP gates interchanging the spins in the first and second dots or in the second and third dots. The noise suppression performance depends slightly on this order of SWAP gates. For two spins in a double quantum dot a scheme for quantum state tomography is presented. The corresponding measurement operators are constructed from a set of mutually unbiased bases of the four-dimensional two-qubit Hilbert space. These measurements are represented by short sequences of no more than three elementary quantum gates and projective measurements by the well-established spin-to-charge conversion.
With the help of the spin-orbit interaction, we propose a scheme to perform holonomic single-qubit gates on the electron spin confined to a quantum dot. The manipulation is done in the absence (or presence) of an applied magnetic field. By adiabatic changing the position of the confinement potential, one can rotate the spin state of the electron around the Bloch sphere in semiconductor heterostructures. The dynamics of the system is equivalent to employing an effective non-Abelian gauge potential whose structure depends on the type of the spin-orbit interaction. As an example, we find an analytic expression for the electron spin dynamics when the dot is moved around a circular path (with radius R) on the two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) and show that all single-qubit gates can be realized by tuning the radius and orientation of the circular paths. Moreover, using the Heisenberg exchange interaction, we demonstrate how one can generate two-qubit gates by bringing two quantum dots near each other, yielding a scalable scheme to perform quantum computing on arbitrary N qubits. This proposal shows a way of realizing holonomic quantum computers in solid-state systems.
We propose a set of universal gate operations for the singlet-triplet qubit realized by two-electron spins in a double quantum dot, in the presence of a fixed inhomogeneous magnetic field. All gate operations are achieved by switching the potential offset between the two dots with an electrical bias, and do not require time-dependent control of the tunnel coupling between the dots. We analyze the two-electron dynamics and calculate the effective qubit rotation angle as a function of the applied electric bias. We present explicit gate sequences for single-qubit rotations about two orthogonal axes, and a CNOT gate sequence, completing the universal gate set.
The spin states of electrons and holes confined in InAs quantum dot molecules have recently come to fore as a promising system for the storage or manipulation of quantum information. We describe here a feasible scheme for complete quantum optical control of two electron spin qubits in two vertically-stacked singly-charged InAs quantum dots coupled by coherent electron tunneling. With an applied magnetic field transverse to the growth direction, we construct a universal set of gates that corresponds to the possible Raman transitions between the spin states. We detail the procedure to decompose a given two-qubit unitary operation, so as to realize it with a successive application of up to 8 of these gates. We give the pulse shapes for the laser pulses used to implement this universal set of gates and demonstrate the realization of the two-qubit quantum Fourier transform with fidelity of 0.881 and duration of 414 ps. Our proposal therefore offers an accessible path to universal computation in quantum dot molecules and points to the advantages of using pulse shaping incoherent manipulation of optically active quantum dots to mitigate the negative effects of unintended dynamics and spontaneous emission.