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Publications (43)

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

20 Second Parity Lifetime in an InAs--Pb Tetron Device

Morteza Aghaee, Zulfi Alam, Mariusz Andrzejczuk +162

A central promise of topological quantum computing is that increasing the excitation gap improves device performance significantly. Here, we experimentally validate this principle…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Long-Distance Superexchange between Semiconductor Quantum-Dot Electron Spins

Haifeng Qiao, Yadav P. Kandel, Saeed Fallahi +4

Because of their long coherence times and potential for scalability, semiconductor quantum-dot spin qubits hold great promise for quantum information processing. However, maintaini…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018

Fast spin exchange between two distant quantum dots

Filip K. Malinowski, Frederico Martins, Thomas B. Smith +8

The Heisenberg exchange interaction between neighboring quantum dots allows precise voltage control over spin dynamics, due to the ability to precisely control the overlap of orbit…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Remote entropy measurement in coupled quantum dots

Owen Sheekey, Tim Child, Elena Cornick +8

Recent experiments have demonstrated that measurements of the entropy change associated with the addition of electrons to semiconductor- and graphene-based quantum dots accurately…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Adiabatic quantum state transfer in a semiconductor quantum-dot spin chain

Yadav P. Kandel, Haifeng Qiao, Saeed Fallahi +3

Semiconductor quantum-dot spin qubits are a promising platform for quantum computation, because they are scalable and possess long coherence times. In order to realize this full po…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020

Coherent multi-spin exchange coupling in a quantum-dot spin chain

Haifeng Qiao, Yadav P. Kandel, Kuangyin Deng +5

Heisenberg exchange coupling between neighboring electron spins in semiconductor quantum dots provides a powerful tool for quantum information processing and simulation. Although s…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016

Quantum capacitance anomalies of two-dimensional non-equilibrium states under microwave irradiation

Jian Mi, Jianli Wang, Saeed Fallahi +3

We report our direct study of the compressibility on ultrahigh mobility two-dimensional electron system ( cm/Vs) in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells und…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Negative spin exchange in a multielectron quantum dot

Frederico Martins, Filip K. Malinowski, Peter D. Nissen +5

By operating a one-electron quantum dot (fabricated between a multielectron dot and a one-electron reference dot) as a spectroscopic probe, we study the spin properties of a gate-c…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Distinct Lifetimes for and Loop Measurements in a Majorana Tetron Device

Morteza Aghaee, Zulfi Alam, Rikke Andersen +164

We present a hardware realization and measurements of a tetron qubit device in a superconductor-semiconductor heterostructure. The device architecture contains two parallel superco…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020

Conditional Teleportation of Quantum-Dot Spin States

Haifeng Qiao, Yadav P. Kandel, Sreenath K. Manikandan +5

Among the different platforms for quantum information processing, individual electron spins in semiconductor quantum dots stand out for their long coherence times and potential for…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Entropic signatures of the single-impurity Kondo state

Johann Drayne, Silvia Lüscher, Will Grant +8

The paper reports a thermodynamic measurement of the entropy reduction that occurs when a Kondo singlet forms in a strongly coupled GaAs quantum dot, using temperature‑dependent ch…

#kondo effect#quantum dots#entropy measurement#thermodynamics
cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Optimization of edge state velocity in the integer quantum Hall regime

Harshad Sahasrabudhe, Bozidar Novakovic, James Nakamura +5

Observation of interference in the quantum Hall regime may be hampered by a small edge state velocity due to finite phase coherence time. Therefore designing two quantum point cont…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Interferometric Single-Shot Parity Measurement in an InAs-Al Hybrid Device

Morteza Aghaee, Alejandro Alcaraz Ramirez, Zulfi Alam +159

The fusion of non-Abelian anyons or topological defects is a fundamental operation in measurement-only topological quantum computation. In topological superconductors, this operati…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Quantum Lifetime in Ultra-High Quality GaAs Quantum Wells: Relationship to and Impact of Density Fluctuations

Qi Qian, James R. Nakamura, Saeed Fallahi +6

We consider quantum lifetime derived from low-field Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations as a metric of quality of the two-dimensional electron gas in GaAs quantum wells that expresses l…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Response to recent comments on Phys. Rev. B 107, 245423 (2023) and Subsection S4.3 of the Supp. Info. for Nature 638, 651-655 (2025)

Morteza Aghaee, Zulfi Alam, Mariusz Andrzejczuk +127

The topological gap protocol (TGP) is a statistical test designed to identify a topological phase with high confidence and without human bias. It is used to determine a promising p…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018

Readout Of Singlet-Triplet Qubits At Large Magnetic Field Gradients

Lucas A. Orona, John M. Nichol, Shannon P. Harvey +5

Visibility of singlet-triplet qubit readout is reduced to almost zero in large magnetic field gradients due to relaxation processes. Here we present a new readout technique that is…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

High temperature resistivity measured at ν = 5/2 as a predictor of 2DEG quality in the N=1 Landau level

Qi Qian, James R. Nakamura, Saeed Fallahi +3

We report a high temperature (T = 0.3K) indicator of the excitation gap at the filling factor fractional quantum Hall state in ultra-high quality AlGaAs/GaAs t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014

Field-effect-induced two-dimensional electron gas utilizing modulation doping for improved ohmic contacts

Sumit Mondal, Geoffrey C. Gardner, John D. Watson +3

Modulation-doped AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures are utilized extensively in the study of quantum transport in nanostructures, but charge fluctuations associated with remote ionized d…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Anderson Orthogonality as Measurement Backaction in Coupled Quantum Dots

Will Grant, Sarath Sankar, Elena Cornick +9

Measurement perturbs a quantum system by coupling it to external degrees of freedom, but detector backaction depends on the physical mechanism of measurement itself. In solid-state…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019

Observation of new plasmons in the fractional quantum Hall effect: interplay of topological and nematic orders

Lingjie Du, Ursula Wurstbauer, Ken W. West +5

Collective modes of exotic quantum fluids reveal underlying physical mechanisms responsible for emergent complex quantum ground states. We observe unexpected new collective modes i…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019

Coherent spin state transfer via Heisenberg exchange

Yadav P. Kandel, Haifeng Qiao, Saeed Fallahi +3

Quantum information science has the potential to revolutionize modern technology by providing resource-efficient approaches to computing, communication, and sensing. Although the p…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016

Noise suppression using symmetric exchange gates in spin qubits

Frederico Martins, Filip K. Malinowski, Peter D. Nissen +6

We demonstrate a substantial improvement in the spin-exchange gate using symmetric control instead of conventional detuning in GaAs spin qubits, up to a factor-of-six increase in t…

cond-mat.str-el2016

Modified MBE hardware and techniques and role of gallium purity for attainment of two dimensional electron gas mobility >35 x10^6 cm^2/Vs in AlGaAs/GaAs quantum wells grown by MBE

Geoffrey C. Gardner, Saeed Fallahi, John D. Watson +1

We provide evidence that gallium purity is the primary impediment to attainment of ultra-high mobility in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures grow…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Spectrum of the Nuclear Environment for GaAs Spin Qubits

Filip K. Malinowski, Frederico Martins, Łukasz Cywiński +7

Using a singlet-triplet spin qubit as a sensitive spectrometer of the GaAs nuclear spin bath, we demonstrate that the spectrum of Overhauser noise agrees with a classical spin diff…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Shubnikov-de Haas Characterization of Superconductor-Semiconductor Heterostructures

A. M. Zimmerman, Saeed Fallahi, Sergei Gronin +13

Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanostructures are a central component for research spanning condensed matter physics and quantum information processing. Continued progress rel…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

InAs-Al Hybrid Devices Passing the Topological Gap Protocol

Morteza Aghaee, Arun Akkala, Zulfi Alam +124

We present measurements and simulations of semiconductor-superconductor heterostructure devices that are consistent with the observation of topological superconductivity and Majora…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019

Aharonov-Bohm interference of fractional quantum Hall edge modes

James Nakamura, Saeed Fallahi, Harshad Sahasrabudhe +4

We demonstrate operation of a small Fabry-Perot interferometer in which highly coherent Aharonov-Bohm oscillations are observed in the integer and fractional quantum Hall regimes.…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Physics-informed tracking of qubit fluctuations

Fabrizio Berritta, Jan A. Krzywda, Jacob Benestad +9

Environmental fluctuations degrade the performance of solid-state qubits but can in principle be mitigated by real-time Hamiltonian estimation down to time scales set by the estima…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Precision measurement of electron-electron scattering in GaAs/AlGaAs using transverse magnetic focusing

Adbhut Gupta, Jean J. Heremans, Gitansh Kataria +4

Electron-electron (e-e) interactions assume a cardinal role in solid-state physics. Quantifying the e-e scattering length is hence critical. In this paper we show that the mesoscop…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Observation of flat bands in gated semiconductor artificial graphene

Lingjie Du, Ziyu Liu, Shalom J. Wind +6

Flat bands near M points in the Brillouin zone are key features of honeycomb symmetry in artificial graphene (AG) where electrons may condense into novel correlated phases. Here we…

quant-ph2025

Roadmap to fault tolerant quantum computation using topological qubit arrays

David Aasen, Morteza Aghaee, Zulfi Alam +179

We describe a concrete device roadmap towards a fault-tolerant quantum computing architecture based on noise-resilient, topologically protected Majorana-based qubits. Our roadmap e…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Spin of a multielectron quantum dot and its interaction with a neighboring electron

Filip K. Malinowski, Frederico Martins, Thomas B. Smith +8

We investigate the spin of a multielectron GaAs quantum dot in a sequence of nine charge occupancies, by exchange coupling the multielectron dot to a neighboring two-electron doubl…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Simultaneous Operations in a Two-Dimensional Array of Singlet-Triplet Qubits

Federico Fedele, Anasua Chatterjee, Saeed Fallahi +3

In many physical approaches to quantum computation, error-correction schemes assume the ability to form two-dimensional qubit arrays with nearest-neighbor couplings and parallel op…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Fractional focusing peaks and collective dynamics in two-dimensional Fermi liquids

Adbhut Gupta, Gitansh Kataria, Mani Chandra +6

Carrier transport in materials is often diffusive due to momentum-relaxing scattering with phonons and defects. Suppression of momentum-relaxing scattering can lead to the ballisti…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Real-time two-axis control of a spin qubit

Fabrizio Berritta, Torbjørn Rasmussen, Jan A. Krzywda +9

Optimal control of qubits requires the ability to adapt continuously to their ever-changing environment. We demonstrate a real-time control protocol for a two-electron singlet-trip…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018

Magnetically-defined topological edge plasmons in edgeless electron gas

Dafei Jin, Yang Xia, Thomas Christensen +11

Topological materials bear gapped excitations in bulk yet protected gapless excitations at boundaries. Magnetoplasmons (MPs), as high-frequency density excitations of two-dimension…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019

Direct Entropy Measurement in a Mesoscopic Quantum System

Nikolaus Hartman, Christian Olsen, Silvia Lüscher +5

The entropy of an electronic system offers important insights into the nature of its quantum mechanical ground state. This is particularly valuable in cases where the state is diff…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Entropy measurement of a strongly coupled quantum dot

Tim Child, Owen Sheekey, Silvia Lüscher +8

The spin 1/2 entropy of electrons trapped in a quantum dot has previously been measured with great accuracy, but the protocol used for that measurement is valid only within a restr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Floquet-Enhanced Spin Swaps

Haifeng Qiao, Yadav P. Kandel, John S. Van Dyke +5

The transfer of information between quantum systems is essential for quantum communication and computation. In quantum computers, high connectivity between qubits can improve the e…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Automated in situ optimization and disorder mitigation in a quantum device

Jacob Benestad, Torbjørn Rasmussen, Bertram Brovang +9

We investigate automated in situ optimization of the potential landscape in a quantum point contact device, using a gate array patterned atop the constriction. Optimiz…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Symmetric Operation of the Resonant Exchange Qubit

Filip K. Malinowski, Frederico Martins, Peter D. Nissen +5

We operate a resonant exchange qubit in a highly symmetric triple-dot configuration using IQ-modulated RF pulses. At the resulting three-dimensional sweet spot the qubit splitting…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

A robust protocol for entropy measurement in mesoscopic circuits

Tim Child, Owen Sheekey, Silvia Lüscher +4

Previous measurements utilizing Maxwell relations to measure change in entropy, , demonstrated remarkable accuracy of measuring the spin-1/2 entropy of electrons in a weakly cou…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016

High-fidelity entangling gate for double-quantum-dot spin qubits

John M. Nichol, Lucas A. Orona, Shannon P. Harvey +4

Electron spins in semiconductors are promising qubits because their long coherence times enable nearly 10^9 coherent quantum gate operations. However, developing a scalable high-fi…