Addressable electron spin resonance using donors and donor molecules in silicon

作者：Hile Samuel J^*; Fricke Lukas; House Matthew G; Peretz Eldad; Chen Chin Yi; Wang Yu; Broome Matthew; Gorman Samuel K; Keizer Joris G; Rahman Rajib; Simmons Michelle Y^*

来源：Science Advances, 2018, 4(7): eaaq1459.

DOI：10.1126/sciadv.aaq1459

Phosphorus donor impurities in silicon are a promising candidate for solid-state quantum computing due to their exceptionally long coherence times and high fidelities. However, individual addressability of exchange coupled donors with separations similar to 15 nm is challenging. We show that by using atomic precision lithography, we can place a single P donor next to a 2P molecule 16 +/- 1 nm apart and use their distinctive hyperfine coupling strengths to address qubits at vastly different resonance frequencies. In particular, the single donor yields two hyperfine peaks separated by 97 +/- 2.5 MHz, in contrast to the donor molecule that exhibits three peaks separated by 262 +/- 10 MHz. Atomistic tight-binding simulations confirm the large hyperfine interaction strength in the 2P molecule with an interdonor separation of similar to 0.7 nm, consistent with lithographic scanning tunneling microscopy images of the 2P site during device fabrication. We discuss the viability of using donor molecules for built-in addressability of electron spin qubits in silicon.