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We theoretically consider g factor and spin lifetimes of holes in a longitudinal Ge/Si core/shell nanowire quantum dot that is exposed to external magnetic and electric fields. For the ground states, we find a large anisotropy of the g…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-25 Franziska Maier , Christoph Kloeffel , Daniel Loss

Hole spins in semiconductor quantum dots or bound to acceptor impurities show promise as potential qubits, partly because of their weak and anisotropic hyperfine couplings to proximal nuclear spins. Since the hyperfine coupling is weak, it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Pericles Philippopoulos , Stefano Chesi , Joe Salfi , Sven Rogge , W. A. Coish

The scalability of spin qubit devices is conditioned by qubit-to-qubit variability. Disorder in the host materials indeed affects the wave functions of the confined carriers, which leads to variations in their charge and spin properties.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Biel Martinez , Silvano de Franceschi , Yann-Michel Niquet

The paucity of observed supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) may imply that the gravitational wave background (GWB) from this population is anisotropic, rendering existing analyses sub-optimal. We present the first constraints on the…

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

The strong spin-orbit interaction in silicon and germanium hole quantum dots enables all-electric microwave control of single spins but is unsuited for multi-spin exchange-only qubits that rely on scalable discrete signals to suppress…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Stefano Bosco , Maximilian Rimbach-Russ

Due to its p-like character, the valence band in GaAs-based heterostructures offers rich and complex spin-dependent phenomena. One manifestation is the large anisotropy of Zeeman spin splitting. Using undoped, coupled quantum wells (QWs),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 C. Gradl , M. Kempf , D. Schuh , D. Bougeard , R. Winkler , C. Schüller , T. Korn

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

Hole spin qubits in quasi one-dimensional structures are a promising platform for quantum information processing because of the strong spin-orbit interaction (SOI). We present analytical results and discuss device designs that optimize the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-03 Christoph Adelsberger , Mónica Benito , Stefano Bosco , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

In superconductor-semiconductor hybrid structures, superconductivity and spin polarization are competing effects because magnetic fields break Cooper pairs. They can be combined using thin films and in-plane magnetic fields, an approach…

The coherence of hole spin qubits in germanium planar heterostructures is limited by the hyperfine coupling to the nuclear spin bath due to 29Si and 73Ge isotopes. Thus, removing these nuclear spin-full isotopes is essential to extend the…

We report measurements of magneto-resistance commensurability peaks, induced by a square array of anti-dots, in GaAs (311)A two-dimensional holes as a function of applied in-plane strain. The data directly probe the shapes of the Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Shabani , M. Shayegan , R. Winkler

We study the influence of quantum dot symmetry on the Rabi frequency and phonon induced spin relaxation rate in a single electron GaAs spin qubit. We find that anisotropic dependence on the magnetic field direction is independent of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 Pavle Stipsić , Marko Milivojević

The quiet quantum environment of holes in solid-state devices has been at the core of increasingly reliable architectures for quantum processors and memories.1-6 However, due to the lack of scalable materials to properly tailor the valence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Simone Assali , Anis Attiaoui , Patrick Del Vecchio , Samik Mukherjee , Jérôme Nicolas , Oussama Moutanabbir

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

Gate geometry and bias asymmetry can be used to engineer spin dynamics in gate-defined Ge hole quantum dots by reshaping the confinement potential and driving transitions between distinct confinement regimes. In this work, we show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Ngoc Duong , Daryoosh Vashaee

We propose qubits based on shallow donor electron spins in germanium. Spin-orbit interaction for donor spins in germanium is in many orders of magnitude stronger than in silicon. In a uniform bulk material it leads to very short spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 V. N. Smelyanskiy , V. V. Hafiychuk , F. T. Vasko , A. G. Petukhov

We study the low-energy spectrum of a single hole confined in a planar Ge quantum dot (QD) within the effective-mass formalism. The QD is sandwiched between two GeSi barriers of finite potential height grown along the [001] direction. To…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Jiawei Wang , Xuedong Hu , Herbert F Fotso

Hole spins in group IV quantum dots are a highly promising way to develop CMOS compatible spin qubits owing to their inherent spin-orbit coupling, which enables fast, coherent, and electrical spin control. However, spin-orbit coupling not…

We used density-functional theory based first principles simulations to study the effects of uniaxial strain and quantum confinement on the electronic properties of germanium nanowires along the [110] direction, such as the energy gap and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Paul Logan , Xihong Peng