CNR-SPIN has been awarded a prestigious project in the framework of the HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES call.
The “SpIn-orbitronic QuAntum bits in Reconfigurable 2D-Oxides (IQARO)” project, under the responsibility of Prof. Roberta Citro from the Salerno SPIN unit, involves 7 European partners, including 5 research centers: CNR SPIN (Italy), CNRS (France), DTU (Denmark), AHS (Poland) and Chalmers (Sweden), and 2 industrial stakeholders: THALES (France) and RIBER (France). The project will start on October 1st with a duration of 48 months, with a total founding of 3.7M€.
The project has the goal to realize spin-orbitronics qubits in single and double quantum dots based on 2D electron gases formed at SrTiO3-based interfaces. Oxide interfaces are characterized by an exceptional degree of spin-momentum locking and by a combination of high-mobility and 2D-magnetism, all tunable via electric field effect. These unique properties will allow a coherent quantum control of individual electron spins using spin to charge interconvertion with extraordinary efficiency. The breakthrough technology proposed by the IQARO project has great potential for practical implementation of an innovative quantum computation approach, with upscaling to a large number of qubits, going beyond the one-dimensional interconnect schemes currently used.
