Self-Assembled Wigner Crystals as Mediators of Spin Currents and Quantum Information

Bobby Antonio, Abolfazl Bayat, Sanjeev Kumar, Michael Pepper, and Sougato Bose
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 216804 – Published 20 November 2015
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Abstract

Technological applications of many-body structures that emerge in gated devices under minimal control are largely unexplored. Here we show how emergent Wigner crystals in a semiconductor quantum wire can facilitate a pivotal requirement for a scalable quantum computer, namely, transmitting quantum information encoded in spins faithfully over a distance of micrometers. The fidelity of the transmission is remarkably high, faster than the relevant decohering effects, independent of the details of the spatial charge configuration in the wire, and realizable in dilution refrigerator temperatures. The transfer can evidence near unitary many-body nonequilibrium dynamics hitherto unseen in a solid-state device. It could also be useful in spintronics as a method for pure spin current over a distance without charge movement.

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  • Received 14 July 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.216804

© 2015 American Physical Society

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Bobby Antonio1, Abolfazl Bayat1, Sanjeev Kumar2,3, Michael Pepper2,3, and Sougato Bose1

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
  • 2Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, London WC1E 7JE, United Kingdom
  • 3London Centre for Nanotechnology, 17-19 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AH, United Kingdom

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Vol. 115, Iss. 21 — 20 November 2015

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