%0 Journal Article %J Physical Review B %D 2017 %T Input-output theory for spin-photon coupling in Si double quantum dots %A Benito, M. %A Mi, X. %A J. M. Taylor %A Petta, J. R. %A Burkard, Guido %X

The interaction of qubits via microwave frequency photons enables long-distance qubit-qubit coupling and facilitates the realization of a large-scale quantum processor. However, qubits based on electron spins in semiconductor quantum dots have proven challenging to couple to microwave photons. In this theoretical work we show that a sizable coupling for a single electron spin is possible via spin-charge hybridization using a magnetic field gradient in a silicon double quantum dot. Based on parameters already shown in recent experiments, we predict optimal working points to achieve a coherent spin-photon coupling, an essential ingredient for the generation of long-range entanglement. Furthermore, we employ input-output theory to identify observable signatures of spin-photon coupling in the cavity output field, which may provide guidance to the experimental search for strong coupling in such spin-photon systems and opens the way to cavity-based readout of the spin qubit.

%B Physical Review B %V 96 %P 235434 %8 2017/12/22 %G eng %U https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.235434 %N 23 %R 10.1103/PhysRevB.96.235434