Nature Communications (Mar 2024)

Si/SiGe QuBus for single electron information-processing devices with memory and micron-scale connectivity function

  • Ran Xue,
  • Max Beer,
  • Inga Seidler,
  • Simon Humpohl,
  • Jhih-Sian Tu,
  • Stefan Trellenkamp,
  • Tom Struck,
  • Hendrik Bluhm,
  • Lars R. Schreiber

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46519-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Abstract The connectivity within single carrier information-processing devices requires transport and storage of single charge quanta. Single electrons have been adiabatically transported while confined to a moving quantum dot in short, all-electrical Si/SiGe shuttle device, called quantum bus (QuBus). Here we show a QuBus spanning a length of 10 μm and operated by only six simply-tunable voltage pulses. We introduce a characterization method, called shuttle-tomography, to benchmark the potential imperfections and local shuttle-fidelity of the QuBus. The fidelity of the single-electron shuttle across the full device and back (a total distance of 19 μm) is (99.7 ± 0.3) %. Using the QuBus, we position and detect up to 34 electrons and initialize a register of 34 quantum dots with arbitrarily chosen patterns of zero and single-electrons. The simple operation signals, compatibility with industry fabrication and low spin-environment-interaction in 28Si/SiGe, promises long-range spin-conserving transport of spin qubits for quantum connectivity in quantum computing architectures.