diff --git a/content/flying-qubit.png b/content/flying-qubit.png index 71172e75684d46f5df138951f0001c21183b64d0..a8b533347c1f39202932a89d54e8a25055c69651 100644 Binary files a/content/flying-qubit.png and b/content/flying-qubit.png differ diff --git a/content/index.txt b/content/index.txt index cce01bada7570c12aa03f79d54fb6f02917774bb..ab5ea49bbaab64068f2228e721269e2ea74b8bdc 100644 --- a/content/index.txt +++ b/content/index.txt @@ -56,23 +56,26 @@ This device has been built in order to give rise to a Majorana bound state close to the superconducting-normal interface. -Flying qubit -............ +Numerical experiment: flying qubit +.................................. -.. container:: leftside +.. container:: rightside .. image:: flying-qubit.png -This example shows some numerical simulations (left) and experimental results -(right) for a flying Qubit sample made in a GaAs/GaAlAs heterostrucutre. See -Yamamoto et al, Nature Nanotechnology 7, 247 (2012) for details about this -experiment. (Simulations: T. Bautze et al. to be submitted to -Phys. Rev. B). In this example, particular attention was paid to designing a -realistic model for the confining potential seen by the electrons so that -rather subtle aspects of the experiments could be reproduce. Such type of -"numerical experiments" can not only be used to interpret the experimental data -but also as an aid in designing the sample geometry or in the choice of -materials. +Numerical simulations and experimental results for a flying qubit sample made in +a GaAs/GaAlAs heterostrucutre. The Kwant simulations were performed with +particular attention to a realistic model of the confining potential seen by the +electrons. This allows for rather subtle aspects of the experiment could be +reproduced. Such "numerical experiments" can not only be used to interpret the +experimental data but also can help to design the sample geometry and in to +choose the right materials. + +Taken from: T. Bautze et al., to be submitted to Phys. Rev. B. See Yamamoto et +al., `Nature Nanotechnology 7, 247 (2012) +<http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.28>`_ for details about the +experiment. + conductance of a Corbino disk in a quantum Hall regime ...................................................... diff --git a/imgsrc/flying-qubit.svgz b/imgsrc/flying-qubit.svgz index b397f1729f2b005a40f9dd4217ce5bb6cd098cb6..69d35317f4b6aff61ecd7436b099a5bdaf583247 100644 Binary files a/imgsrc/flying-qubit.svgz and b/imgsrc/flying-qubit.svgz differ