A novel spectrometer is employed to study the spectrum of heavily doped quantum dots. A single-particle discrete spectrum is found to exist only in close vicinity to the Fermi energy. Levels further away are broadened beyond the average level spacing and merge to form a quasi-continuous spectrum. The broadening is traced to electron-electron interaction in the dot. For the discrete part of the spectrum, level statistics is studied as a function of magnetic field and found to agree remarkably well with recent calculations.
We experimentally demonstrate the use of a superconducting transmission line, shorted at both ends, to stabilize the operation of a tunable flux qubit. Using harmonic-oscillator stabilization and pulsed dc operation, we have observed Larmor oscillations with a single shot visibility of 90%. In another qubit, the visibility was 60% and there was no measurable visibility reduction after 35 ns.
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