Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Sound-driven single-electron transfer in a circuit of coupled quantum rails

  • Shintaro Takada,
  • Hermann Edlbauer,
  • Hugo V. Lepage,
  • Junliang Wang,
  • Pierre-André Mortemousque,
  • Giorgos Georgiou,
  • Crispin H. W. Barnes,
  • Christopher J. B. Ford,
  • Mingyun Yuan,
  • Paulo V. Santos,
  • Xavier Waintal,
  • Arne Ludwig,
  • Andreas D. Wieck,
  • Matias Urdampilleta,
  • Tristan Meunier,
  • Christopher Bäuerle

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12514-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Surface acoustic waves are promising candidates to convey flying qubits through semiconductor circuits. The authors investigate the central building block of such a circuit in an experiment and present a route to realise quantum logic gates with flying electrons that are surfing on a sound-wave.