What is it about?
When valley splitting < Zeeman splitting, the system’s nonlinear current response enhances qubit readout—if valley energy levels are uniform. When valley splitting > Zeeman splitting, nonuniformity in valley levels degrades readout performance. In both cases, the authors identify regions where measurement time is much shorter than decoherence time, enabling <1% measurement error.
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Why is it important?
The paper demonstrates that resonant-tunneling readout of spin qubits in silicon quantum dots remains viable—even with valley splitting, as long as certain energy conditions and uniformity are met. That’s a big deal for practical quantum computing.
Perspectives
This result opens the door for fault-tolerant quantum computing using surface code error correction, which demands very low measurement error rates. In short, the paper eases a major experimental concern and moves us a step closer to scalable silicon-based quantum technologies.
Professor Tetsufumi Tanamoto
Teikyo Daigaku
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This page is a summary of: Effects of valley splitting on resonant-tunneling readout of spin qubits, Journal of Applied Physics, April 2025, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0260516.
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