The Automated Bias Triangle Feature Extraction Framework
This work addresses the problem of automating feature extraction in Quantum Dot physics for researchers, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing computer vision methods.
The authors tackled the challenge of automatically analyzing bias triangles in Quantum Dot device stability diagrams by developing an unsupervised, segmentation-based computer vision framework that eliminates the need for human labeling or large training datasets, demonstrating effective Pauli Spin Blockade detection without training data.
Bias triangles represent features in stability diagrams of Quantum Dot (QD) devices, whose occurrence and property analysis are crucial indicators for spin physics. Nevertheless, challenges associated with quality and availability of data as well as the subtlety of physical phenomena of interest have hindered an automatic and bespoke analysis framework, often still relying (in part) on human labelling and verification. We introduce a feature extraction framework for bias triangles, built from unsupervised, segmentation-based computer vision methods, which facilitates the direct identification and quantification of physical properties of the former. Thereby, the need for human input or large training datasets to inform supervised learning approaches is circumvented, while additionally enabling the automation of pixelwise shape and feature labeling. In particular, we demonstrate that Pauli Spin Blockade (PSB) detection can be conducted effectively, efficiently and without any training data as a direct result of this approach.