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In the worldwide endeavor for disruptive quantum technologies, germanium is emerging as a versatile material to realize devices capable of encoding, processing, or transmitting quantum information. These devices leverage special properties…

Hole spin qubits are frontrunner platforms for scalable quantum computers because of their large spin-orbit interaction which enables ultrafast all-electric qubit control at low power. The fastest spin qubits to date are defined in long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Stefano Bosco , Daniel Loss

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 design of scalable quantum computers will benefit from predictive models for qubit performance that consider the design and layout of the qubit devices. This approach, has recently been adopted for superconducting qubits, but has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 A Ciocoiu , M Khalifa , J Salfi

Holes confined in quantum dots have gained considerable interest in the past few years due to their potential as spin qubits. Here we demonstrate double quantum dot devices in Ge hut wires. Low temperature transport measurements reveal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 Hannes Watzinger , Josip Kukučka , Lada Vukušić , Fei Gao , Ting Wang , Friedrich Schäffler , Jian-Jun Zhang , Georgios Katsaros

Spin qubits based on valence band hole states are highly promising for quantum information processing due to their strong spin-orbit coupling and ultrafast operation speed. As these systems scale up, achieving high-fidelity single-qubit…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-29 Yaser Hajati , Irina Heinz , Guido Burkard

Spin qubits in germanium gate-defined quantum dots have made considerable progress within the last few years, partially due to their strong spin-orbit coupling and site-dependent $g$-tensors. While this characteristic of the $g$-factors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-20 John Rooney , Zhentao Luo , Lucas E. A. Stehouwer , Giordano Scappucci , Menno Veldhorst , Hong-Wen Jiang

We grow strained Ge/SiGe heterostructures by reduced-pressure chemical vapor deposition on 100 mm Ge wafers. The use of Ge wafers as substrates for epitaxy enables high-quality Ge-rich SiGe strain-relaxed buffers with a threading…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-11 Lucas E. A. Stehouwer , Alberto Tosato , Davide Degli Esposti , Davide Costa , Menno Veldhorst , Amir Sammak , Giordano Scappucci

The squeezing of a Ge planar quantum dot enhances the Rabi frequency of electric dipole spin resonance by several orders of magnitude due to a strong Direct Rashba spin-orbit interaction in such geometries (Bosco et al 2021 Phys. Rev. B 104…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Bashab Dey , John Schliemann

Strained Ge ($\epsilon$-Ge) and strained Si ($\epsilon$-Si) buried quantum wells have enabled advanced spin-qubit quantum processors. However, in the absence of suitable lattice-matched substrates, $\epsilon$-Ge and $\epsilon$-Si are…

Germanium is a widely used material for electronic and optoelectronic devices and recently it has become an important material for spintronics and quantum computing applications. Donor spins in silicon have been shown to support very long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-22 A. J. Sigillito , R. M. Jock , A. M. Tyryshkin , J. W. Beeman , E. E. Haller , K. M. Itoh , S. A. Lyon

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…

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…

Strong, direct Rashba spin-orbit coupling in Si, Ge, and the Ge/Si core/shell nanowire quantum dot (QD) allows for all electrical manipulation of the hole spin qubit. Motivated by this fact, we analyze different fabrication-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Marko Milivojević

We demonstrate that a lightly-strained germanium channel ($\varepsilon_{//}$ = -0.41%) in an undoped Ge/Si$_{0.1}$Ge$_{0.9}$ heterostructure field effect transistor supports a 2D hole gas with mobility in excess of 1$\times$10$^{6}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 M. Lodari , O. Kong , M. Rendell , A. Tosato , A. Sammak , M. Veldhorst , A. R. Hamilton , G. Scappucci

Strong spin-orbit coupling and relatively weak hyperfine interactions make germanium hole spin qubits a promising candidate for semiconductor quantum processors. The two-dimensional hole gas structure of strained Ge quantum wells serves as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Zhenzhen Kong , Zonghu Li , Yuchen Zhou , Gang Cao , Hai-Ou Li , Jiale Su , Yiwen Zhang , Jinbiao Liu , Guo-Ping Guo , Junfeng Li , Jun Luo , Chao Zhao , Tianchun Ye , Guilei Wang

Germanium-silicon-germanium (Ge/Si$_{x}$Ge$_{1-x}$) heterostructures have emerged as a promising platform for hole-spin quantum technologies and high-mobility electronics, where strain and quantum confinement strongly reshape the Ge valence…

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

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

Across leading qubit platforms, a common trade-off persists: increasing coherence comes at the cost of operational speed, reflecting the notion that protecting a qubit from its noisy surroundings also limits control over it. This…