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cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 94 cited

Current-phase relation of ballistic graphene Josephson junctions

Gaurav Nanda, Juan Luis Aguilera-Servin, Péter Rakyta +7

The current-phase relation (CPR) of a Josephson junction (JJ) determines how the supercurrent evolves with the superconducting phase difference across the junction. Knowledge of th…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 629 cited

Interfacing spin qubits in quantum dots and donors - hot, dense and coherent

L. M. K. Vandersypen, H. Bluhm, J. S. Clarke +6

Semiconductor spins are one of the few qubit realizations that remain a serious candidate for the implementation of large-scale quantum circuits. Excellent scalability is often arg…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 22 cited

Hybrid Superconductor-Quantum Point Contact Devices using InSb Nanowires

S. T. Gill, J. Damasco, D. Car +2

Proposals for studying topological superconductivity and Majorana bound states in nanowires proximity coupled to superconductors require that transport in the nanowire is ballistic…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 95 cited

Andreev Molecules in Semiconductor Nanowire Double Quantum Dots

Zhaoen Su, Alexandre B. Tacla, Moïra Hocevar +6

Quantum simulation is a way to study unexplored Hamiltonians by mapping them onto the assemblies of well-understood quantum systems such as ultracold atoms in optical lattices, tra…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 203 cited

Experimental Phase Diagram of a One-Dimensional Topological Superconductor

Jun Chen, Peng Yu, John Stenger +6

Topological superconductors can host Majorana quasiparticles which supersede the fermion/boson dichotomy and offer a pathway to fault tolerant quantum computation. In one-dimension…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 26 cited

Highly tuneable hole quantum dots in Ge-Si core-shell nanowires

Matthias Brauns, Joost Ridderbos, Ang Li +3

We define single quantum dots of lengths varying from 60 nm up to nearly half a micron in Ge-Si core-shell nanowires. The charging energies scale inversely with the quantum dot len…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 398 cited

Silicon CMOS architecture for a spin-based quantum computer

M. Veldhorst, H. G. J. Eenink, C. H. Yang +1

Recent advances in quantum error correction (QEC) codes for fault-tolerant quantum computing \cite{Terhal2015} and physical realizations of high-fidelity qubits in a broad range of…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 132 cited

Microwave spectroscopy of spinful Andreev bound states in ballistic semiconductor Josephson junctions

David J. van Woerkom, Alex Proutski, Bernard van Heck +7

The superconducting proximity effect in semiconductor nanowires has recently enabled the study of new superconducting architectures, such as gate-tunable superconducting qubits and…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 69 cited

Quantized conductance and large g-factor anisotropy in InSb quantum point contacts

Fanming Qu, Jasper van Veen, Folkert K. de Vries +10

Due to a strong spin-orbit interaction and a large Landé g-factor, InSb plays an important role in research on Majorana fermions. To further explore novel properties of Majorana fe…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 3 cited

A non-invasive method for nanoscale electrostatic gating of pristine materials

Arjan J. A. Beukman, Fanming Qu, Ken W. West +2

Electrostatic gating is essential for defining and control of semiconducting devices. However, nano-fabrication processes required for depositing gates inevitably degrade the prist…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 139 cited

Transparent Semiconductor-Superconductor Interface and Induced Gap in an Epitaxial Heterostructure Josephson Junction

M. Kjaergaard, H. J. Suominen, M. P. Nowak +5

Measurement of multiple Andreev reflection (MAR) in a Josephson junction made from an InAs heterostructure with epitaxial aluminum is used to quantify the highly transparent semico…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 24 cited

Impact of g-factors and valleys on spin qubits in a silicon double quantum dot

J. C. C. Hwang, C. H. Yang, M. Veldhorst +6

We define single electron spin qubits in a silicon MOS double quantum dot system. By mapping the qubit resonance frequency as a function of gate-induced electric field, the spectru…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 46 cited

An electrically driven spin qubit based on valley mixing

Wister Huang, Menno Veldhorst, Neil M. Zimmerman +2

The electrical control of single spin qubits based on semiconductor quantum dots is of great interest for scalable quantum computing since electric fields provide an alternative me…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 46 cited

Anisotropic Pauli spin blockade in hole quantum dots

Matthias Brauns, Joost Ridderbos, Ang Li +3

We present measurements on gate-defined double quantum dots in Ge-Si core-shell nanowires, which we tune to a regime with visible shell filling in both dots. We observe a Pauli spi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 2 cited

Quantum dynamics of nuclear spins and spin relaxation in organic semiconductors

V. V. Mkhitaryan, V. V. Dobrovitski

We investigate the role of the nuclear spin quantum dynamics in hyperfine-induced spin relaxation of hopping carriers in organic semiconductors. The fast hopping regime with a smal…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 41 cited

Dynamical piezoelectric and magnetopiezoelectric effects in polar metals from Berry phases and orbital moments

Daniel Varjas, Adolfo G. Grushin, Roni Ilan +1

The polarization of a material and its response to applied electric and magnetic fields are key solid-state properties with a long history in insulators, although a satisfactory th…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 22 cited

Nanosecond-timescale spin transfer using individual electrons in a quadruple-quantum-dot device

T. A. Baart, N. Jovanovic, C. Reichl +2

The ability to coherently transport electron-spin states between different sites of gate-defined semiconductor quantum dots is an essential ingredient for a quantum-dot-based quant…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 45 cited

Decoupling edge versus bulk conductance in the trivial regime of an InAs/GaSb double quantum well using Corbino ring geometry

Binh-Minh Nguyen, Andrey A. Kiselev, Ramsey Noah +13

A Corbino ring geometry is utilized to analyze edge and bulk conductance of InAs/GaSb quantum well structures. We show that edge conductance exists in the trivial regime of this th…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 41 cited

Giant spin-orbit splitting in inverted InAs/GaSb double quantum wells

Fabrizio Nichele, Morten Kjaergaard, Henri J. Suominen +11

Transport measurements in inverted InAs/GaSb quantum wells reveal a giant spin-orbit splitting of the energy bands close to the hybridization gap. The splitting results from the in…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 85 cited

Coherent spin-exchange via a quantum mediator

T. A. Baart, T. Fujita, C. Reichl +2

Coherent interactions at a distance provide a powerful tool for quantum simulation and computation. The most common approach to realize an effective long-distance coupling 'on-chip…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 59 cited

Electric-field dependent g-factor anisotropy in Ge-Si core-shell nanowire quantum dots

Matthias Brauns, Joost Ridderbos, Ang Li +2

We present angle-dependent measurements of the effective g-factor g* in a Ge-Si core-shell nanowire quantum dot. g* is found to be maximum when the magnetic field is pointing perpe…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 108 cited

Conductance Quantization at zero magnetic field in InSb nanowires

Jakob Kammhuber, Maja C. Cassidy, Hao Zhang +10

Ballistic electron transport is a key requirement for existence of a topological phase transition in proximitized InSb nanowires. However, measurements of quantized conductance as…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 60 cited

Computer-automated tuning of semiconductor double quantum dots into the single-electron regime

T. A. Baart, P. T. Eendebak, C. Reichl +2

We report the computer-automated tuning of gate-defined semiconductor double quantum dots in GaAs heterostructures. We benchmark the algorithm by creating three double quantum dots…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 349 cited

Ballistic Majorana nanowire devices

Önder Gül, Hao Zhang, Jouri D. S. Bommer +8

Majorana modes are zero-energy excitations of a topological superconductor that exhibit non-Abelian statistics. Following proposals for their detection in a semiconductor nanowire…