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Hole spin qubits are rapidly emerging as the workhorse of semiconducting quantum processors because of their large spin-orbit interaction, enabling fast all-electric operations at low power. However, spin-orbit interaction also causes…

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

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

The pseudospin of heavy-holes (HHs) confined in a semiconductor quantum dot (QD) represents a promising candidate for a fast and robust qubit. While hole spin manipulation by a classical electric field utilizing the Dresselhaus spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Philipp M. Mutter , Guido Burkard

Germanium (Ge) quantum wells are emerging as versatile platforms for quantum devices, supporting high-quality spin qubits and integration with superconducting leads. These applications benefit from strong intrinsic spin-orbit interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Patrick Del Vecchio , Kevin Rossi , Giordano Scappucci , Stefano Bosco

In semiconductor hole spin qubits, low magnetic field ($B$) operation extends the coherence time ($T_\mathrm{2}^*$) but proportionally reduces the gate speed. In contrast, singlet-triplet (ST) qubits are primarily controlled by the exchange…

We investigate theoretically the spin purity of single holes confined in vertically coupled GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dots (QDs) under longitudinal magnetic fields. A unique behavior is observed for triangular QDs, by which the spin is largely…

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The possibility of quantum computing with spins in germanium nanoscale transistors has recently attracted interest since it promises highly tuneable qubits that have encouraging coherence times. We here present the first complete theory of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Giuseppe Pica , Brendon W. Lovett

The coherent control of interacting spins in semiconductor quantum dots is of strong interest for quantum information processing as well as for studying quantum magnetism from the bottom up. Here, we present a $2\times4$ germanium quantum…

Spin qubits in semiconductor quantum dots represent a prominent family of solid-state qubits in the effort to build a quantum computer. They are formed when electrons or holes are confined in a static potential well in a semiconductor,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-12 Shannon Harvey

A single hole spin in a semiconductor quantum dot has emerged as a quantum bit that is potentially superior to an electron spin. A key feature of holes is that they have a greatly reduced hyperfine interaction with nuclear spins, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-14 Alex Greilich , Samuel G. Carter , Danny Kim , Allan S. Bracker , Daniel Gammon

Semiconductor spin qubits based on spin-orbit states are responsive to electric field excitation allowing for practical, fast and potentially scalable qubit control. Spin-electric susceptibility, however, renders these qubits generally…

Planar germanium heterostructures hosting hole-spin qubits are among the leading platforms for scalable semiconductor-based quantum computing. Yet, device performance is hindered by significant quantum dot variability, which leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Aram Shojaei , Edmondo Valvo , Maximilian Rimbach-Russ , Eliska Greplova , Ana Silva

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

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

The strong atomistic spin orbit coupling of holes makes single-shot spin readout measurements difficult because it reduces the spin lifetimes. By integrating the charge sensor into a high bandwidth radio-frequency reflectometry setup we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Lada Vukušić , Josip Kukučka , Hannes Watzinger , Joshua M. Milem , Friedrich Schäffler , Georgios Katsaros

As a candidate scheme for controllably coupled qubits, we consider two quantum dots, each doped with a single electron. The spin of the electron defines our qubit basis and trion states can be created by using polarized light; we show that…

The author analyzes quantum computation with the hybrid qubit (HQ) that is encoded using the three-electron configuration of a double quantum dot. All gate operations are controlled with electric signals, while the qubit remains at an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 Sebastian Mehl

Germanium quantum dot hole spin qubits are compatible with fully electrical control and are progressing toward multi-qubit operations. However, their coherence is limited by charge noise and driving field induced frequency shifts, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Xiangjun Tan , Zhanning Wang , Wenkai Bai , Hanjie Zhu