Novel quantum phenomena in nanowires and quantum dots with a strong spin-orbit interaction.

Project funded by Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (Vinnova) (Project grant), grant 2010-01828_Vinnova. Participating organisations named by the source: Lund University. Funded amount: SEK 300,000, as stated by the source. Runs 2011-04-01 to 2013-03-31. Source: OpenAIRE Graph, from the funder's project data (collected by OpenAIRE on 2025-12-05); national funding data, not CORDIS. Abstract given by the source: Purpose and goal: The primary objective is to study quantum phenomena in systems made in narrow gap semiconductor nanowires. Xu group in Lund University, where they have achieved high quality narrow gap semiconductor nanowires and measured its quantum transport properties, collaborate with Tarucha group in the University of Tokyo, where they have achieved the outstanding results in quantum computation using spins, to tackle the following challenging subjects: strong coupling between a photon and an electron spin, high performance spin quantum bits, and observation of the Majorana Fermions. Expected results and effects: The results obtained under support by VINNOVA have been excellent. Now the two groups have been highly visible worldwide in the field of quantum transport in semiconductor nanostructures. Approach and implementation: Our performance is very much in line with our project design and the project has been completed with great success.

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AI-assisted summary: The project, funded by Vinnova with SEK 300,000, ran from April 2011 to March 2013, focusing on quantum phenomena in narrow gap semiconductor nanowires. Lund University collaborated with the University of Tokyo to explore photon-electron spin coupling and spin quantum bits. Suggested technology pillar: computing. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.