RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science Floating-Electron-Based Quantum Information RIKEN Hakubi Research Team
RIKEN Hakubi Team Leader: Erika Kawakami (Ph.D.)
Research Summary

Our team is working on the application of electrons floating on liquid helium to quantum information. This physical system has a high potential for providing an ideal platform on which to realize a quantum computer, due to the fact that it is free of impurities and defects. We are also working on the technological development required for large-scale quantum computation.
Main Research Fields
- Engineering
Related Research Fields
- Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering
- Mathematical & Physical Sciences
- Applied physics
- Nano/Micro science
- Electrical and electronic engineering
Keywords
- low-temperature physics
- quantum computer
- quantum bit
- two-dimensional electron system
- helium
Selected Publications
Papers with an asterisk(*) are based on research conducted outside of RIKEN.
- 1.
*E. Kawakami, A. Elarabi, D. Konstantinov.:
"Image-charge detection of the Rydberg states of surface electrons on liquid helium"
Physical Review Letters with Editors’ Suggestion, 123, 086801 (2019). - 2.
*J.P.G. van Dijk, E. Kawakami, R.N. Schouten, M. Veldhorst, L.M.K. Vandersypen, M. Babaie, E. Charbon, and F. Sebastiano.:
"The impact of classical control electronics on qubit fidelity"
Physical Review Applied, 12, 044054 (2019). - 3.
*T. F. Watson, S. G. J. Philips, E. Kawakami, D. R. Ward, P. Scarlino, M. Veldhorst, D. E. Savage, M. G. Lagally, Mark Friesen, S. N. Coppersmith, M. A. Eriksson & L. M. K. Vandersypen.:
"A programmable two-qubit quantum processor in silicon"
Nature 555, 633 (2018). - 4.
*R. Ferdous, E. Kawakami, P. Scarlino, M. Novak, D. E. Savage, M. G. Lagally, Mark Friesen, S. N. Coppersmith, M. A. Eriksson, L.M. K. Vandersypen, and R. Rahman.:
"Valley dependent anisotropic spin splitting in silicon quantum dots"
Nature Quantum Information 4, 26 (2018). - 5.
*P. Scarlino, E. Kawakami, T. Jullien, D. R. Ward, D. E. Savage, M. G. Lagally, Mark Friesen, S. N. Coppersmith, M. A. Eriksson and L. M. K. Vandersypen.:
"Dressed photon-orbital states in a quantum dot: Inter-valley spin resonance"
Physical Review B 95, 165429 (2017). - 6.
*E. Kawakami, T. Jullien, P. Scarlino, D. R. Ward, D. E. Savage, M. G. Lagally, Viatcheslav Dobrovitski, Mark Friesen, S. N. Coppersmith, M. A. Eriksson, and L. M. K. Vandersypen.:
"Gate fidelity and coherence of an electron spin in a Si/SiGe quantum dot with micromagnet"
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113, 42, 11738 (2016). - 7.
*P. Scarlino, E. Kawakami, D. R. Ward, D. E. Savage, M. G. Lagally, Mark Friesen, S. N. Coppersmith, M. A. Eriksson and L. M. K. Vandersypen.:
"Second harmonic coherent driving of a spin qubit in Si/SiGe single quantum dot"
Physical Review Letters 115, 106802 (2015). - 8.
*E. Kawakami, P. Scarlino, D. R. Ward, F. R. Braakman, D. E. Savage, M. G. Lagally, Mark Friesen, S. N. Coppersmith, M. A. Eriksson, and L. M. K. Vandersypen.:
"Electrical control of a long-lived spin qubit in a Si/SiGe quantum dot"
Nature Nanotechnology 9, 666-670 (2014). - 9.
*P. Scarlino, E. Kawakami, P. Stano, M. Shafiei, C. Reichl, W. Wegscheider, L. M. K. Vandersypen.:
"Spin relaxation anisotropy in a GaAs quantum dot"
Physical Review Letters with Editors’ Suggestion, 113, 256802 (2014). - 10.
*E. Kawakami, P. Scarlino, L. R. Schreiber, J. R. Prance, D. E. Savage, M. G. Lagally, M. A. Eriksson, L. M. K. Vandersypen.:
"Excitation of a Si/SiGe quantum dot using an on-chip microwave antenna"
Applied Physics Letters 103, 132410 (2013).
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Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Erika Kawakami
- RIKEN Hakubi Team Leader
Contact Information
Email: erika.kawakami [at] riken.jp