Condensed Matter/Materials & Biological Physics Seminar with Shiva Dolatabadi on Gate-Controlled Quantum Dots

There's a lot of excitement for possibilities of quantum computing to solve problems that are currently intractable. But there are significant challenges in scaling up current technologies to the point where practical problems can be solved. Therefore, we investigate new materials and qubit types that could overcome those challenges. This talk focuses on the investigation of gate¬defined quantum dots in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide tungsten diselenide (WSe₂) as a means to unravel mesoscopic physical phenomena such as valley-contrasting physics in WSe₂ flakes and its potential application as qubit, as well as realizing gate-controlled quantum dots based on elemental tellurium nanostructures which may unlock the topological nature of the host material carriers such as Weyl states in tellurium nanowires.