Electrical Control of g-Factor in a Few-Hole Silicon Nanowire MOSFET

Nano Lett. 2016 Jan 13;16(1):88-92. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b02920. Epub 2015 Dec 14.

Abstract

Hole spins in silicon represent a promising yet barely explored direction for solid-state quantum computation, possibly combining long spin coherence, resulting from a reduced hyperfine interaction, and fast electrically driven qubit manipulation. Here we show that a silicon-nanowire field-effect transistor based on state-of-the-art silicon-on-insulator technology can be operated as a few-hole quantum dot. A detailed magnetotransport study of the first accessible hole reveals a g-factor with unexpectedly strong anisotropy and gate dependence. We infer that these two characteristics could enable an electrically driven g-tensor-modulation spin resonance with Rabi frequencies exceeding several hundred mega-Hertz.

Keywords: Landé g-factor; MOSFET; Quantum dot; hole transport; silicon; spin qubits.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't