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We engineer planar Ge/SiGe heterostructures for low disorder and quiet hole quantum dot operation by positioning the strained Ge channel 55~nm below the semiconductor/dielectric interface. In heterostructure field effect transistors, we…

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Large-scale arrays of quantum-dot spin qubits in Si/SiGe quantum wells require large or tunable energy splittings of the valley states associated with degenerate conduction band minima. Existing proposals to deterministically enhance the…

In this paper we investigate the structural and optical properties of few strain-unbalanced multiple Ge/GeSi quantum wells pseudomorphically grown on GeSi reverse-graded substrates. The obtained high epitaxial quality demonstrates that…

The co-integration of spin, superconducting, and topological systems is emerging as an exciting pathway for scalable and high-fidelity quantum information technology. High-mobility planar germanium is a front-runner semiconductor for…

Many-component electron-hole plasma is considered in the Coupled Quantum Wells (CQW). It is found that the homogeneous state of the plasma is unstable if the carrier density is sufficiently small. The instability results in the breakdown…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-26 V. S. Babichenko , I. Ya. Polishchuk

The energy and photoluminescence (PL) spectra of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) interacting with a valence-band hole are studied in the high-magnetic-field limit as a function of the filling factor nu and the separation $d$ between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 John J. Quinn , Arkadiusz Wojs , Kyung-Soo Yi , Izabela Szlufarska

In quantum sideband high harmonic generation (QSHHG), high harmonic generation is perturbed by a bright quantum field resulting in harmonic sidebands, with the intent to transfer non-classical properties from the quantum perturbation to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Neda Boroumand , Adam Thorpe , Graeme Bart , Lu Wang , David N. Purschke , Giulio Vampa , Thomas Brabec

Recently the Quantum Spin Hall effect (QSH) was theoretically predicted and experimentally realized in a quantum wells based on binary semiconductor HgTe[1-3]. QSH state and topological insulators are the new states of quantum matter…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-08 S. Chadov , X. -L. Qi , J Kübler , G. H. Fecher , C. Felser , S. -C. Zhang

We present far-infrared magnetospectroscopy measurements of a HgTe quantum well in the inverted band structure regime over the temperature range of 2 to 60 K. The particularly low electron concentration enables us to probe the temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 S. Ruffenach , S. S. Krishtopenko , A. V. Ikonnikov , C. Consejo , J. Torres , X. Baudry , P. Ballet , B. Jouault , F. Teppe

We develop a general theory of high-harmonic generation (HHG) in solid-state systems, based on a weak-correlation expansion of photonic and matter degrees of freedom. Unlike standard HHG theories, which treat light-matter dynamics through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Denis Ilin , Alexander S. Solntsev , Ivan Iorsh

This work investigates and compares the impact of strain on heavy hole (HH) spin qubits in SiGe/Ge and light hole (LH) spin qubits in GeSn/Ge heterostructures, focusing on energy states, g-factor, Rabi frequency, spin relaxation, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Kelvin Dsouza , Patrick Del Vecchio , Nicolas Rotaru , Oussama Moutanabbir , Daryoosh Vashaee

Fabrication of devices made by isolated Graphene or Graphene-like single layers (such as h-BN) has opened up possibility of examining highly correlated states of electron systems in parts of their phase diagram that is impossible to access…

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The effects of low temperature illumination and annealing on fractional quantum Hall (FQH) characteristics of a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well are investigated. Illumination alone, below 1 K, decreases the density of the 2DEG electrons by more…

Hole gases in planar germanium can have high mobilities in combination with strong spin-orbit interaction and electrically tunable g-factors, and are therefore emerging as a promising platform for creating hybrid…

In a low-disorder two-dimensional electron system, when two Landau levels of opposite spin or pseudospin cross at the Fermi level, the dominance of the exchange energy can lead to a ferromagnetic, quantum Hall ground state whose gap is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 Meng K. Ma , Chengyu Wang , Y. J. Chung , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , R. Winkler , M. Shayegan

High-harmonic generation (HHG) is a coherent optical process in which the incident photon energy is up-converted to the multiples of its initial energy. In solids, under the influence of a strong laser field, electron-hole (e-h) pairs are…

Two-dimensional electron and hole gas systems, enabled through band structure design and epitaxial growth on planar substrates, have served as key platforms for fundamental condensed matter research and high performance devices. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wei Lu , Jie Xiang , Brian P. Timko , Yue Wu , Charles M. Lieber

We review recent experimental results on the metal-insulator transition and low-density phases in strongly-interacting, low-disordered Si-based two-dimensional electron systems. Special attention is given to the metallic state in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-13 A. A. Shashkin , S. V. Kravchenko

Spins confined in quantum dots are a leading candidate for solid-state quantum bits that can be coherently controlled by optical pulses. There are, however, many challenges to developing a scalable multibit information processing device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-26 Sophia E. Economou , Juan I. Climente , Antonio Badolato , Allan S. Bracker , Daniel Gammon , Matthew F. Doty

Hole spins in silicon represent a promising yet barely explored direction for solid-state quantum computation, possibly combining long spin coherence, resulting from a reduced hyperfine interaction, and fast electrically driven qubit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 B. Voisin , R. Maurand , S. Barraud , M. Vinet , X. Jehl , M. Sanquer , J. Renard , S. De Franceschi