Assessing the potential of perfect screw dislocations in SiC for solid-state quantum technologies

Ab initio calculations; Defect state; Defects in solids; Deterministics; Quantum technologies; Spin configurations; Physics - Materials Science; Quantum Physics

Abstract :

[en] Although point defects in solids can be used as qubits, it remains challenging to position them in a deterministic array. By means of advanced ab initio calculations we show that perfect screw dislocations in 3C-SiC could be used to overcome this limitation. In addition, we show that such dislocations can change the spin configuration of a point defect located inside its core, without changing the localized nature of its defect states. Our findings represent a technological leap as they show that dislocations can be used as active building blocks in future defect-based quantum computers.

Disciplines :

Physics

Author, co-author :

Barragan-Yani, Daniel ; Unilu - University of Luxembourg [LU] > Department of Physics and Materials Science

WIRTZ, Ludger ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPHYMS)

External co-authors :

Language :

English

Title :

Assessing the potential of perfect screw dislocations in SiC for solid-state quantum technologies

Publication date :

April 2024

Journal title :

Physical Review Research

eISSN :

2643-1564

Publisher :

American Physical Society

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Peer reviewed :

Editorial reviewed

Additional URL :

https://link.aps.org/article/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L022055

European Projects :

H2020 - 898860 - Q-Line - Line defects as building blocks of a defect-based quantum computer

Funders :

H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Union Européenne

Funding text :

We acknowledge that this project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 898860. Furthermore, the authors gratefully acknowledge the computing time granted by the HPC facilities of the University of Luxembourg and the HRZ (Lichtenberg-Cluster) at TU Darmstadt.

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