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The selective confinement of light holes (LHs) in a tensile-strained germanium (Ge) quantum well is studied by mapping the electronic structure of Ge$_{1-x}$Sn$_x$/Ge/Ge$_{1-x}$Sn$_x$ heterostructures as a function of Sn content, residual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Patrick Del Vecchio , Oussama Moutanabbir

We theoretically investigate the properties of holes in a Si$_{x}$Ge$_{1-x}$/Ge/ Si$_{x}$Ge$_{1-x}$ quantum well in a perpendicular magnetic field that make them advantageous as qubits, including a large ($>$100~meV) intrinsic splitting…

We present a design and modeling of a scalable quantum processor architecture utilizing hole-spin qubits defined in gate-controlled germanium (Ge) quantum dots, where coherent spin-phonon coupling is predicted to facilitate qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 D. -M. Mei , S. A. Panamaldeniya , K. Dong , S. Bhattarai , N. Budhathoki , A. Warren

Hole spin qubits in planar Ge heterostructures are one of the frontrunner platforms for scalable quantum computers. In these systems, the spin-orbit interactions permit efficient all-electric qubit control. We propose a minimal design…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Stefano Bosco , Mónica Benito , Christoph Adelsberger , Daniel Loss

Planar germanium quantum wells have recently been shown to host hard-gapped superconductivity. Additionally, quantum dot spin qubits in germanium are well-suited for quantum information processing, with isotopic purification to a nuclear…

Heavy holes confined in quantum dots are predicted to be promising candidates for the realization of spin qubits with long coherence times. Here we focus on such heavy-hole states confined in Germanium hut wires. By tuning the growth…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Lada Vukušić , Josip Kukučka , Hannes Watzinger , Georgios Katsaros

Holes in Ge/SiGe heterostructures are now a leading platform for semiconductor spin qubits, thanks to the high confinement quality, two-dimensional arrays, high tunability, and larger gate structure dimensions. One limiting factor for the…

Complementary to the development of highly three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuits in the continuation of Moore's law, there has been a growing interest in new 3D deformation strategies to improve device performance. To continue this…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-08 Simon Mellaerts , Valeri Afanasiev , Jin Won Seo , Michel Houssa , Jean-Pierre Locquet

Flopping mode qubits in double quantum dots (DQDs) allow for coherent spin-photon hybridization and fast qubit gates when coupled to either an alternating external or a quantized cavity electric field. To achieve this, however, electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Philipp M. Mutter , Guido Burkard

Strained germanium heterostructures are one of the most promising material for hole spin qubits but suffer from the strong anisotropy of the gyromagnetic factors that hinders the optimization of the magnetic field orientation. The figures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Lorenzo Mauro , Mauricio J. Rodriguez , Esteban A. Rodriguez-Mena , Yann-Michel Niquet

Hole spin qubits in planar germanium heterostructures are frontrunners for scalable semiconductor quantum computing. However, their current performance is mostly limited by large dot-to-dot variability that leads to uncontrolled qubit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Edmondo Valvo , Michele Jakob , Patrick Del Vecchio , Maximilian Rimbach-Russ , Stefano Bosco

Holes in germanium (Ge) exhibit strong spin-orbit interaction, which can be exploited for fast and all-electrical manipulation of spin states. Here, we report transport experiments in a tunable Ge hut wire hole double quantum dot. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-11 Gang Xu , Fei Gao , Ke Wang , Ting Zhang , He Liu , Gang Cao , Ting Wang , Jian-Jun Zhang , Hong-Wen Jiang , Hai-Ou Li , Guo-Ping Guo

Operation speed and coherence time are two core measures for the viability of a qubit. Strong spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and relatively weak hyperfine interaction make holes in germanium (Ge) intriguing candidates for spin qubits with…

Germanium quantum dots in strained $\text{Ge}/\text{Si}_{1-x}\text{Ge}_{x}$ heterostructures exhibit fast and coherent hole qubit control in experiments. In this work, we theoretically and numerically address the effects of random alloy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Abhikbrata Sarkar , Pratik Chowdhury , Xuedong Hu , Andre Saraiva , A. S. Dzurak , A. R. Hamilton , Rajib Rahman , Dimitrie Culcer

Germanium hole spin qubits based on strained Ge/SiGe quantum well have attracted much research attention due to the strong spin-orbit coupling. In particular, the strain dependence of the heavy-hole--light-hole mixing and thus the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Chun-Yang Yuan , Tzu-Kan Hsiao

The direct bandgap found in hexagonal germanium and some of its alloys with silicon allows for an optically active material within the group-IV semiconductor family with various potential technological applications. However, there remain…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-12 Yetkin Pulcu , János Koltai , Andor Kormányos , Guido Burkard

High-purity germanium (Ge) has re-emerged as a versatile semiconductor platform for spin-based quantum information processing because it combines mature materials processing, access to spin-free isotopes, high mobilities, small effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 D. -M. Mei , K. -M. Dong , S. A. Panamaldeniya , A. Prem , S. Chhetri , N. Budhathoki , S. Bhattarai

Qubits based on quantum dots have excellent prospects for scalable quantum technology due to their inherent compatibility with standard semiconductor manufacturing. While early on it was recognized that holes may offer a multitude of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 N. W. Hendrickx , W. I. L. Lawrie , L. Petit , A. Sammak , G. Scappucci , M. Veldhorst

The germanium (Ge) hut wire system has strong spin-orbit coupling, a long coherence time due to a very large heavy-light hole splitting, and the advantage of site-controlled large-scale hut wire positioning. These properties make the Ge hut…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-11 Gang Xu , Yan Li , Fei Gao , Hai-Ou Li , He Liu , Ke Wang , Gang Cao , Ting Wang , Jian-Jun Zhang , Guang-Can Guo , Guo-Ping Guo

The selective confinement of light-holes (LHs) is demonstrated by introducing a low-dimensional system consisting of highly tensile-strained Ge quantum well enabling the design of an ultrafast gate-defined spin qubit under the electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-21 Patrick Del Vecchio , Oussama Moutanabbir
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