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- Title
Multi-Valued Logic Gates based on Ballistic Transport in Quantum Point Contacts.
- Authors
M. Seo; C. Hong; S.-Y. Lee; H. K. Choi; N. Kim; Y. Chung; Umansky, V.; Mahalu, D.
- Abstract
Multi-valued logic gates, which can handle quaternary numbers as inputs, are developed by exploiting the ballistic transport properties of quantum point contacts in series. The principle of a logic gate that finds the minimum of two quaternary number inputs is demonstrated. The device is scalable to allow multiple inputs, which makes it possible to find the minimum of multiple inputs in a single gate operation. Also, the principle of a half-adder for quaternary number inputs is demonstrated. First, an adder that adds up two quaternary numbers and outputs the sum of inputs is demonstrated. Second, a device to express the sum of the adder into two quaternary digits [Carry (first digit) and Sum (second digit)] is demonstrated. All the logic gates presented in this paper can in principle be extended to allow decimal number inputs with high quality QPCs.
- Subjects
LOGIC circuits; BALLISTIC conduction; QUANTUM point contacts; ELECTRON transport; QUANTUM interference
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2014, p1
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/srep03806