All-silicon double quantum dot architecture for spin qubit

Silicon spin qubits, with their long coherence time [1] and compatibility with industrial CMOS technology [2-4], hold great promise for large-scale quantum computing. Nevertheless, improvements in device reproducibility and fabrication are still needed to build a scalable spin qubit architecture.

Leveraging CMOS industry's fabrication expertise, we present here a silicon double quantum dot architecture for a spin qubit fully fabricated in a 300 mm integrated process at the IMEC manufacturing facility. 

On these devices, using an integrated SET as a charge sensor, we demonstrate reproducible single and double quantum dots operation with tunable inter-dot coupling.

These results pave the way for the use of silicon spin qubits for large-scale quantum computing.

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