Project Details
Projekt
Controlling Electron-Phonon Interaction in Nanocircuits Strong Coupling Regime
Subject Area
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
Term
from 2018 to 2022
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 405619279
Phonons are the most fundamental excitations in condensed matter. Phonons strongly interact and the electron-phonon interaction has important consequences for technologically relevant applications. Because phonons are an important source of dephasing and dissipation in electronic devices, they present major challenges for current information technology and future quantum technology applications. In the mean time, there exist a number of applications based on non-thermal acoustic phonons. Examples include acousto-electrical switches based on surface acoustic waves, acoustic diodes based on phononic metamaterials or ultra sensitive nanomechanical mass sensors. In this proposal we aim at utilizing phonons in nanoelectronical quantum circuits, to engineer the electron-phonon dynamics, guided by the prospect of hybrid quantum systems based on confined phonons and confined electrons. We propose to engineer phonons in cooperation with electrons as coherent excitations in solids. Theseexcitations could be encoded with quantum information and phonons could serve, for instance, as interconnects between solid state qubits. Here we will perform a first step in this direction by realizing hybrid quantum systems coupling electrons and phonons in tailored nanostructures. Our focus will be on the electron-phonon interaction in few electron coupled quantum dots placed in high quality phonon resonators aiming at reaching the strong coupling regime. The coherent interaction between a single electron and a single phonon in such a device will give rise to quantum hybrid states useful for quantum information applications.
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