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SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEM WITH TRANSITIONAL METAL IMPURITY FOR QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING

D. D. Awschalom, Berk Diler, William F. Koehl, Samuel J. Whiteley

Published Jul 29, 2019• 0 citations
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Methods and devices are disclosed for implementing quantum information processing based on electron spins in semiconductor and transition metal compositions. The transition metal electron orbitals split under semiconductor crystal field. The electron ground states are used as qubits. The transitions between the ground states involve electron spin flip. The semiconductor and transition metal compositions may be further included in optical cavities to facilitate quantum information processing. Quantum logic operations may be performed using single color or two color coherent resonant optical excitations via an excited electron state.

DOI
10.6082/tkfc2-yn135

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A method for preparing an entangled quantum state of an atomic ensemble is provided. The method includes loading each atom of the atomic ensemble into a respective optical trap; placing each atom of the atomic ensemble into a same first atomic quantum state by impingement of pump radiation; approaching the atoms of the atomic ensemble to within a dipole-dipole interaction length of each other; Rydberg-dressing the atomic ensemble; during the Rydberg-dressing operation, exciting the atomic ensemble with a Raman pulse tuned to stimulate a ground-state hyperfine transition from the first atomic quantum state to a second atomic quantum state; and separating the atoms of the atomic ensemble by more than a dipole-dipole interaction length.
Group IV color centers in diamond are among the most promising optically active electron-spin systems with strong optical transitions and long spin coherences. The orbital ground-state splitting of the center is particularly important to suppress the interaction with coherence-limiting phonons. A higher orbital ground-state splitting improves the spin-coherence properties and sets the upper limit for the operating temperature. Negatively charged silicon-vacancy centers have an ordinary ground-state splitting from spin-orbit coupling of only 48 G Hz , resulting in required temperatures below 1 K, which can only be achieved by dilution refrigerators. Here, we increase the orbital ground-state splitting by up to an order of magnitude by induced strain in a single-crystal diamond membrane. The characterized orbital ground-state splitting in highly strained regions could allow for electron-spin-coherence times of milliseconds at 1.5 K . We demonstrate cavity-assisted spectroscopy enabled by coupling the emitter ensemble with a selectable strain to the mode of a Fabry-Perot microcavity. Calculation of the absorption cross section yields σ abs ens ≈ 4.9 ⋅ 10 − 11 cm 2 . Furthermore, temperature-dependent lifetime measurements reveal a Purcell enhanced twofold reduction in emitter lifetime below 1 ns at 4 K .
Efficient and reversible optical to microwave transducers are required for entanglement transfer between superconducting qubits and light in quantum networks. Rare-earth-doped crystals with narrow optical and spin transitions are a promising system for enabling these devices. Current resonant transduction approaches use ground-state electron spin transitions that have coherence lifetimes often limited by spin flip-flop processes and spectral diffusion, even at very low temperatures. We investigate spin coherence in an optically excited state of an Er^{3+}: Y_{2}SiO_{5} crystal at temperatures from 1.6 to 3.5 K for a low 8.7 mT magnetic field compatible with superconducting resonators. Spin coherence and population lifetimes of up to 1.6 μs and 1.2 ms, respectively, are measured by optically detected spin echo experiments. Analysis of decoherence processes suggest that ms coherence can be reached at lower temperatures for the excited-state spins, whereas ground-state spin coherence would be limited to a few μs due to resonant interactions with other Er^{3+} spins in the lattice and greater instantaneous spectral diffusion from the radio-frequency control pulses. We propose a quantum transducer scheme with potential for close to unity efficiency that exploits the advantages offered by spin states of the optically excited electronic energy levels.