p-Orbital Qubit

Dr. Jason Kestner, Department of Physics.
This project focuses on a semiconductor based charge qubit proposed in Ref. [Caporaletti 2024, preprint: 2411.06058]. This qubit is advantageous over conventional semiconductor spin qubits because of it’s larger quality factor and higher gate speed. Main computational tasks include simulating the experimental spectroscopy of a multi-electron quantum dot, multi-level Landau-Zener interferometry, and Full Configuration Interaction (FCI) calculations.