Kavli Affiliate: Jos Zwanikken | Summary:Transcription factor concentrations provide signals to cells that allow them to regulate gene expression to make correct cell fate decisions. Calculations for noise bounds in gene regulation suggest that clustering or cooperative binding of transcription factors decreases signal-to-noise ratios at binding sites. However, clustering of transcription factor molecules around binding […]

Kavli Affiliate: Stephanie Wehner | Summary:Execution of quantum network applications requires a software stack for nodes. Recently, the first designs and demonstrations have been proposed for such software stacks, including QNodeOS and its extension, Qoala. The latter enables compilation strategies previously not possible in QNodeOS. Here, we show how the extensions provided by Qoala can […]

Kavli Affiliate: Giordano Scappucci | Summary:We investigate low-frequency noise in a spin-qubit device made in isotopically purified Si/Si-Ge. Observing sizable cross-correlations among energy fluctuations of different qubits, we conclude that these fluctuations are dominated by charge noise. At low frequencies, the noise spectra are not well described by a power law; instead, they reveal the […]

Kavli Affiliate: L. P. Kouwenhoven| First 5 Authors: Alberto Bordin, Alberto Bordin, , , | Summary:Few-site implementations of the Kitaev chain offer a minimal platform to study the emergence and stability of Majorana bound states. Here, we realize two- and three-site chains in semiconducting quantum dots coupled via superconductors, and tune them to the sweet […]

Kavli Affiliate: Sander Otte | Summary:The Casimir effect and superconductivity are foundational quantum phenomena whose interaction remains an open question in physics. How Casimir forces behave across a superconducting transition remains unresolved, owing to the experimental difficulty of achieving alignment, cryogenic environments, and isolating small changes from competing effects. This question carries implications for electron […]

Kavli Affiliate: Sander Otte | Summary:The Casimir effect and superconductivity are foundational quantum phenomena whose interplay is an open question in physics, with significant implications for electron physics, quantum gravity, and high-temperature superconductivity. Determining how Casimir forces behave across a superconducting transition remains elusive due to the difficulty of realizing precise alignment, cryogenic operation, and […]

Kavli Affiliate: Anton Akhmerov | Summary:The easily accessible experimental signatures of Majorana modes are ambiguous and only probe topology indirectly: for example, quasi-Majorana states mimic most properties of Majoranas. Establishing a correspondence between an experiment and a theoretical model known to be topological resolves this ambiguity. Here we demonstrate that already theoretically determining whether a […]

Kavli Affiliate: Menno Veldhorst | First 5 Authors: Daniel Jirovec, Pablo Cova Fariña, Stefano Reale, Stefan D. Oosterhout, Xin Zhang | Summary: Coupled spins in semiconductor quantum dots are a versatile platform for quantum computing and simulations of complex many-body phenomena. However, on the path of scale-up, cross-talk from densely packed electrodes poses a severe […]

Kavli Affiliate: Menno Veldhorst| First 5 Authors: Daniel Jirovec, Daniel Jirovec, , , | Summary:Coupled spins in semiconductor quantum dots are a versatile platform for quantum computing and simulations of complex many-body phenomena. However, on the path of scale-up, cross-talk from densely packed electrodes poses a severe challenge. While cross-talk onto the dot potentials is […]

Kavli Affiliate: Christian Andersen | Summary: Direct dipole coupling between a two-level system and a bosonic mode describes the interactions present in a wide range of physical platforms. In this work, we study a coupling that is mixed between two pairs of quadratures of a bosonic mode and a spin. In this setting, we can […]