Electron spin coherence exceeding seconds in high purity silicon

Details Electron spin coherence exceeding seconds in high purity silicon Electron spin coherence exceeding seconds in high purity silicon

2011-05-19

arxiv.org/abs/1105.3772v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

18 pages, 4 figures, supplementary information

Scientific paper

Silicon is undoubtedly one of the most promising semiconductor materials for spin-based information processing devices. Its highly advanced fabrication technology facilitates the transition from individual devices to large-scale processors, and the availability of an isotopically-purified $^{28}$Si form with no magnetic nuclei overcomes what is a main source of spin decoherence in many other materials. Nevertheless, the coherence lifetimes of electron spins in the solid state have typically remained several orders of magnitude lower than what can be achieved in isolated high-vacuum systems such as trapped ions. Here we examine electron spin coherence of donors in very pure $^{28}$Si material, with a residual $^{29}$Si concentration of less than 50 ppm and donor densities of $10^{14-15}$ per cm$^3$. We elucidate three separate mechanisms for spin decoherence, active at different temperatures, and extract a coherence lifetime $T_2$ up to 2 seconds. In this regime, we find the electron spin is sensitive to interactions with other donor electron spins separated by ~200 nm. We apply a magnetic field gradient in order to suppress such interactions and obtain an extrapolated electron spin $T_2$ of 10 seconds at 1.8 K. These coherence lifetimes are without peer in the solid state by several orders of magnitude and comparable with high-vacuum qubits, making electron spins of donors in silicon ideal components of a quantum computer, or quantum memories for systems such as superconducting qubits.

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