Quantum paraelectric varactors for radio-frequency measurements at mK temperatures

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03588v1
• Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 16:12:07 GMT
• Title: Quantum paraelectric varactors for radio-frequency measurements at mK temperatures
• Authors: P. Apostolidis, B. J. Villis, J. F. Chittock-Wood, A. Baumgartner, V. Vesterinen, S. Simbierowicz, J. Hassel and M. R. Buitelaar
• Abstract summary: We show that strontium titanate varactors can achieve perfect impedance matching and resonator frequency tuning at 6 mK. This allows us to optimize the radio-frequency readout signal-to-noise ratio of carbon nanotube quantum dot devices.
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• Abstract: Radio-frequency reflectometry allows for fast and sensitive electrical readout of charge and spin qubits hosted in quantum dot devices coupled to resonant circuits. Optimizing readout, however, requires frequency tuning of the resonators and impedance matching. This is difficult to achieve using conventional semiconductor or ferroelectric-based varactors in the detection circuit as their performance degrades significantly in the mK temperature range relevant for solid-state quantum devices. Here we explore a different type of material, strontium titanate, a quantum paraelectric with exceptionally large field-tunable permittivity at low temperatures. Using strontium titanate varactors we demonstrate perfect impedance matching and resonator frequency tuning at 6 mK and characterize the varactors at this temperature in terms of their capacitance tunability, dissipative losses and magnetic field sensitivity. We show that this allows us to optimize the radio-frequency readout signal-to-noise ratio of carbon nanotube quantum dot devices to achieve a charge sensitivity of 4.8 $\mu$e/Hz$^{1/2}$ and capacitance sensitivity of 0.04 aF/Hz$^{1/2}$.

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