Coherent Spin Preparation of Indium Donor Qubits in Single ZnO Nanowires.

Viitaniemi, Maria L K; Zimmermann, Christian; Niaouris, Vasileios; D'Ambrosia, Samuel H; Wang, Xingyi; Kumar, E Senthil; Mohammadbeigi, Faezeh; Watkins, Simon P et al. · Nano Lett · 2022

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Shallow donors in ZnO are promising candidates for photon-mediated quantum technologies. Utilizing the indium donor, we show that favorable donor-bound exciton optical and electron spin properties are retained in isolated ZnO nanowires. The inhomogeneous optical line width of single nanowires (60 GHz) is within a factor of 2 of bulk single-crystalline ZnO. Spin initialization via optical pumping is demonstrated and coherent population trapping is observed. The two-photon absorption width approaches the theoretical limit expected due to the hyperfine interaction between the indium nuclear spin and the donor-bound electron.