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Researchers at RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich have uncovered important characteristics of double quantum dots in bilayer graphene, an increasingly promising material for possible applications in quantum technologies. The team has demonstrated near-perfect particle-hole symmetry in graphene quantum dots, which could lead to more efficient quantum information processing. The study has been published in Nature.
For applications in spin-based electronics and quantum computation, it is crucial to understand quantitively how the electron spin is coupled to the orbital degrees of freedom. In bilayer graphene this is a notoriously difficult task, given the tiny size of the energy scales involved. Researchers from RWTH Aachen University have now managed to accurately measure the spin-orbit coupling in single-electron bilayer graphene quantum dots, exploiting the extreme energy sensitivity of a double-dot device. The result has been reported in Nature Communications.
Continue reading “An accurate measurement of the spin-orbit coupling in single-electron bilayer graphene quantum dots”Substantial advances in the technology for confining and manipulating electrons in bilayer graphene quantum dots bring the demonstration of graphene-based qubits within reach.
Continue reading “Steady progress towards graphene-based qubits”Banszerus and coworkers have reported the first experimental observation of the spin-orbit gap in bilayer graphene.
Continue reading “First observation of the (tunable) spin-orbit gap in bilayer graphene”