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most citedExploiting epitaxial strained germanium for scaling low noise spin qubits at the micron-scale

16 citations · 24 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Superconducting edge contact to a buried Ge quantum well

Dina Sokolova, Davide Costa, Davide Degli Esposti +4

Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems form the basis for a broad range of quantum phenomena, such as Andreev bound states, topological superconductivity, and hybrid quantum H…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Light-Hole Spin Qubits in Strained SiGe Lattice-Matched to Ge

Edmondo Valvo, Davide Costa, Patrick Del Vecchio +3

Strained germanium (-Ge) quantum wells on metamorphic SiGe buffers have enabled advanced hole-based spin qubit devices. Alternatively, unstrained Ge with lattice-match…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Buried germanium quantum well proximitised by magnetic field-resilient superconducting platinum iridium germanosilicide

Praveen Viswanathan, Erik Lemmens Sjöstrand, Davide Costa +8

Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor systems provide a versatile platform for quantum technologies, ranging from superconducting-spin interfaces to topological quantum devices. Prog…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Confinement drives valley splitting above 4K in buried silicon quantum wells

Davide Degli Esposti, Emma Catherine Brann, Asser Elsayed +3

Controlling the energy scales of a quantum system is essential for defining robust qubits. In silicon spin qubits, the nearly degenerate conduction-band valleys create a leakage ch…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Conductance Plateaus at Quantum Hall Integer Filling Factors in Germanium Quantum Point Contacts

Karina Hudson, Davide Costa, Davide Degli Esposti +2

Constricting transport through a one-dimensional quantum point contact in the quantum Hall regime enables gate-tunable selection of the edge modes propagating between voltage probe…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Using Landau quantization to probe disorder in semiconductor heterostructures

Asser Elsayed, Davide Costa, Lucas E. A. Stehouwer +5

Understanding scattering mechanisms in semiconductor heterostructures is crucial to reducing sources of disorder and ensuring high yield and uniformity in large spin qubit arrays.…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Quantum oscillations in two-dimensional hole gases with competing cyclotron and Zeeman energy

Davide Costa, Lucas E. A. Stehouwer, Davide Degli Esposti +1

Evaluation of critical bandstructure and quantum transport parameters in two-dimensional systems is challenging when competition emerges among different energy scales shaping quant…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Buried unstrained germanium channels: a lattice-matched platform for quantum technology

Davide Costa, Patrick Del Vecchio, Karina Hudson +8

Strained Ge (-Ge) and strained Si (-Si) buried quantum wells have enabled advanced spin-qubit quantum processors. However, in the absence of suitable lattice-matched substrat…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

QARPET: A Crossbar Chip for Benchmarking Semiconductor Spin Qubits

Alberto Tosato, Asser Elsayed, Federico Poggiali +5

Large-scale integration of semiconductor spin qubits into quantum processors hinges on the ability to characterize quantum components at scale, a task challenged by their operation…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 8 cited

Reducing disorder in Ge quantum wells by using thick SiGe barriers

Davide Costa, Lucas E. A. Stehouwer, Yi Huang +4

We investigate the disorder properties of two-dimensional hole gases in Ge/SiGe heterostructures grown on Ge wafers, using thick SiGe barriers to mitigate the influence of the semi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 16 cited

Exploiting epitaxial strained germanium for scaling low noise spin qubits at the micron-scale

Lucas E. A. Stehouwer, Cécile X. Yu, Barnaby van Straaten +10

Disorder in the heterogeneous material stack of semiconductor spin qubit systems introduces noise that compromises quantum information processing, posing a challenge to coherently…