Time resolved control of electron tunnelling times and single-shot spin readout in a quantum dot

We are pursuing a capability to perform time resolved manipulations of single spins in quantum dot circuits involving more than two quantum dots. In this paper, we demonstrate full counting statistics as well as averaging techniques used to calibrate the tunnel barriers. We make use of this to implement the Delft protocol [1] for single shot single spin readout in a device designed to form a triple quantum dot potential. We are able to tune the tunnelling times over around three orders of magnitude. We obtain a spin relaxation time of 300μs at 10 T.