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 …

Fast two-qubit logic with holes in germanium

NW Hendrickx, DP Franke, A Sammak, G Scappucci… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Universal quantum information processing requires the execution of single-qubit and two-
qubit logic. Across all qubit realizations, spin qubits in quantum dots have great promise to …

A single-hole spin qubit

NW Hendrickx, WIL Lawrie, L Petit, A Sammak… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Qubits based on quantum dots have excellent prospects for scalable quantum technology
due to their compatibility with standard semiconductor manufacturing. While early research …

Quantum dot arrays in silicon and germanium

WIL Lawrie, HGJ Eenink, NW Hendrickx… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Electrons and holes confined in quantum dots define excellent building blocks for quantum
emergence, simulation, and computation. Silicon and germanium are compatible with …

Shallow and undoped germanium quantum wells: a playground for spin and hybrid quantum technology

A Sammak, D Sabbagh, NW Hendrickx… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Buried‐channel semiconductor heterostructures are an archetype material platform for the
fabrication of gated semiconductor quantum devices. Sharp confinement potential is …

Hard superconducting gap in germanium

A Tosato, V Levajac, JY Wang, CJ Boor… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
The co-integration of spin, superconducting, and topological systems is emerging as an
exciting pathway for scalable and high-fidelity quantum information technology. High …

From nonreciprocal to charge-4e supercurrent in Ge-based Josephson devices with tunable harmonic content

A Leblanc, C Tangchingchai, ZS Momtaz… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
Hybrid superconductor (S)-semiconductor (Sm) devices bring a range of functionalities into
superconducting circuits. In particular, hybrid parity-protected qubits and Josephson diodes …

Lightly strained germanium quantum wells with hole mobility exceeding one million

M Lodari, O Kong, M Rendell, A Tosato… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate that a lightly strained germanium channel (⁠ ε//=− 0.41%⁠) in an undoped
Ge/Si 0.1 Ge 0.9 heterostructure field effect transistor supports a two-dimensional (2D) hole …

Direct Microwave Spectroscopy of Andreev Bound States in Planar Josephson Junctions

M Hinderling, SC ten Kate, M Coraiola, DZ Haxell… - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
We demonstrate microwave measurements of the Andreev-bound-state (ABS) spectrum in
planar Josephson junctions (JJs) defined in Ge high-mobility two-dimensional hole gases …

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 …