Summary
A physical realisation of quantum information processing requires the use of technologies resting on coherent quantum transport and correlation phenomena. Due to the relatively weak coupling of spin with electric fluctuations of the environment, the spin degree of freedom appears as an ideal candidate for quantum information applications. With QspiCE, we plan to investigate quantum spin-dependent effects and transport in nanoscale structures such as semiconducting nanowires, carbon nanotubes, quantum dots, and graphene nanoribbons. QspiCE aims at improving the manipulation and the control of the electron or hole spin in nanostructures and at analyzing and harnessing the various mechanisms leading to relaxation and decoherence of spin in nanoscale objects. QspiCE should help to strengthen the networking between the leading European groups in the field and, thus, increase their influence in this important and popular field of modern condensed matter physics.
Keywords
electron spin, quantum coherence, quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, nanomagnetism
Duration
5 years: June 2009 - June 2014
It was decided to close the QSpiCE Programme prematurely in October 2012.
