Valley transitions during spin shuttling in Si/SiGe heterostructures
Abstract
Valley excitations are considered one of the biggest challenges for a coherent spin shuttling in Si/SiGe heterostructures. In this work we theoretically investigate the valley dynamics during spin shuttling in a Si/SiGe heterostructure by considering a two-level system given by the two low-lying valley states of the mobile quantum dot. We assume that the electron is initially in the valley ground state and analyze the evolution of this state during shuttling. We find that, depending on the shuttling velocity, the system can be in three distinct regimes. In one of these regimes, the quantum information is preserved even in the presence of the valley excitations, allowing for coherent spin shuttling independently of the shuttling distance. This regime is obtained for a shuttling velocity of tens of m/s, a desired regime where dephasing mechanisms, such as spin-valley hotspots and spatially varying spin splitting, can be suppressed. This result is in accordance with recent experimental work that obtained a high spin shuttling fidelity after a fast and long shuttling. We also propose strategies based on the Partial Landau-Zener model to enhance the valley shuttling fidelity, which was found to be much more efficient than previously proposed strategies based on the standard Landau-Zener model.
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BibTeX
@misc{lima2026valley,
title = {{Valley transitions during spin shuttling in Si/SiGe heterostructures}},
author = {Jonas R F Lima and Guido Burkard},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.08984},
eprint = {2610.08984},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08984},
note = {CC0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Valley transitions during spin shuttling in Si/SiGe heterostructures
AU - Jonas R F Lima
AU - Guido Burkard
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/06
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.08984
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08984
AB - Valley excitations are considered one of the biggest challenges for a coherent spin shuttling in Si/SiGe heterostructures. In this work we theoretically investigate the valley dynamics during spin shuttling in a Si/SiGe heterostructure by considering a two-level system given by the two low-lying valley states of the mobile quantum dot. We assume that the electron is initially in the valley ground state and analyze the evolution of this state during shuttling. We find that, depending on the shuttling velocity, the system can be in three distinct regimes. In one of these regimes, the quantum information is preserved even in the presence of the valley excitations, allowing for coherent spin shuttling independently of the shuttling distance. This regime is obtained for a shuttling velocity of tens of m/s, a desired regime where dephasing mechanisms, such as spin-valley hotspots and spatially varying spin splitting, can be suppressed. This result is in accordance with recent experimental work that obtained a high spin shuttling fidelity after a fast and long shuttling. We also propose strategies based on the Partial Landau-Zener model to enhance the valley shuttling fidelity, which was found to be much more efficient than previously proposed strategies based on the standard Landau-Zener model.
ER -