The germanium quantum information route

G Scappucci, C Kloeffel, FA Zwanenburg… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
In the effort to develop disruptive quantum technologies, germanium is emerging as a
versatile material to realize devices capable of encoding, processing and transmitting …

Strong coupling between a photon and a hole spin in silicon

CX Yu, S Zihlmann, JC Abadillo-Uriel, VP Michal… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Spins in semiconductor quantum dots constitute a promising platform for scalable quantum
information processing. Coupling them strongly to the photonic modes of superconducting …

A germanium hole spin qubit

H Watzinger, J Kukučka, L Vukušić, F Gao… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Holes confined in quantum dots have gained considerable interest in the past few years due
to their potential as spin qubits. Here we demonstrate two-axis control of a spin 3/2 qubit in …

Ultrafast hole spin qubit with gate-tunable spin–orbit switch functionality

FNM Froning, LC Camenzind… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Quantum computers promise to execute complex tasks exponentially faster than any
possible classical computer, and thus spur breakthroughs in quantum chemistry, material …

Ultrafast coherent control of a hole spin qubit in a germanium quantum dot

K Wang, G Xu, F Gao, H Liu, RL Ma, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
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 …

Electrical operation of planar Ge hole spin qubits in an in-plane magnetic field

A Sarkar, Z Wang, M Rendell, NW Hendrickx… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Hole spin qubits in group-IV semiconductors, especially Ge and Si, are actively investigated
as platforms for ultrafast electrical spin manipulation thanks to their strong spin-orbit …

Generating a topological anomalous Hall effect in a nonmagnetic conductor: an in-plane magnetic field as a direct probe of the Berry curvature

JH Cullen, P Bhalla, E Marcellina, AR Hamilton… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We demonstrate that the Berry curvature monopole of nonmagnetic two-dimensional spin-
3/2 holes leads to a novel Hall effect linear in an applied in-plane magnetic field B∥ …

Majorana bound states in germanium Josephson junctions via phase control

M Luethi, HF Legg, K Laubscher, D Loss, J Klinovaja - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We consider superconductor-normal-superconductor-normal-superconductor (SNSNS)
planar Josephson junctions in hole systems with spin-orbit interaction that is cubic in …

Linear-in-momentum spin orbit interactions in planar Ge/GeSi heterostructures and spin qubits

EA Rodríguez-Mena, JC Abadillo-Uriel, G Veste… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We investigate the existence of linear-in-momentum spin orbit interactions in the valence
band of Ge/GeSi heterostructures using an atomistic tight-binding method. We show that …

Optimal operation points for ultrafast, highly coherent Ge hole spin-orbit qubits

Z Wang, E Marcellina, AR Hamilton, JH Cullen… - npj Quantum …, 2021 - nature.com
Strong spin-orbit interactions make hole quantum dots central to the quest for electrical spin
qubit manipulation enabling fast, low-power, scalable quantum computation. Yet it is …