• 文献标题:   Spin relaxation in a single-electron graphene quantum dot
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   BANSZERUS L, HECKER K, MOLLER S, ICKING E, WATANABE K, TANIGUCHI T, VOLK C, STAMPFER C
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
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  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1038/s41467-022-31231-5
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

The relaxation time of a single-electron spin is an important parameter for solid-state spin qubits, as it directly limits the lifetime of the encoded information. Thanks to the low spin-orbit interaction and low hyperfine coupling, graphene and bilayer graphene (BLG) have long been considered promising platforms for spin qubits. Only recently, it has become possible to control single-electrons in BLG quantum dots (QDs) and to understand their spin-valley texture, while the relaxation dynamics have remained mostly unexplored. Here, we report spin relaxation times (T-1) of single-electron states in BLG QDs. Using pulsed-gate spectroscopy, we extract relaxation times exceeding 200 mu s at a magnetic field of 1.9 T. The T-1 values show a strong dependence on the spin splitting, promising even longer T-1 at lower magnetic fields, where our measurements are limited by the signal-to-noise ratio. The relaxation times are more than two orders of magnitude larger than those previously reported for carbon-based QDs, suggesting that graphene is a potentially promising host material for scalable spin qubits. Graphene has long been considered to be a promising host for spin qubits, however a demonstration of long spin relaxation times for a potential qubit has been lacking. Here, the authors report the electrical measurement of the single-electron spin relaxation time exceeding 200 mu s in a bilayer graphene quantum dot.