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Events on Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar
- Electron Walks in Quantum Dot Nanostructures
- Time: 10:00 am
- Place: 5310 Chamberlin
- Speaker: Leonid Fedichkin, Institute for Quantum Sciences & Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
- Abstract: We investigate the dynamics of electron in a chain of coupled semiconductor quantum dots. The electron tunneling in a system is considered in the presence of decoherence. The realization of a full set of basic logic operations, which are necessary for fulfillment of quantum computations, is possible. As the level of quantum noise and the resulting decoherence increase, we observe a crossover from a quantum-coherent oscillatory dynamics to a diffusive classical motion. Quantum measurements performed in coupled quantum dot systems are difficult since the stationary state wave functions is not fully localized on individual qubits. As a result, an instantaneous projective single-qubit measurement gives the state population with an error. We show that this type of errors may be significantly reduced.
- Host: Robert Joynt