The global critical current effect of superconductivity

Kavli Affiliate: Mazhar Ali | Summary: Superconductivity has been investigated for over a century, but there are still open questions about what determines the critical current; the maximum current a superconductor can carry before switching to its normal state. For a given superconductor, the zero-field critical current is widely believed to be determined by its […]


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The quantum Kibble-Zurek mechanism: the role of boundary conditions, endpoints and kink types

Kavli Affiliate: Natalia Chepiga | Summary:Quantum phase transitions are characterised by the universal scaling laws in the critical region surrounding the transitions. This universality is also manifested in the critical real-time dynamics through the quantum Kibble-Zurek mechanism. In recent experiments on a Rydberg atom quantum simulator, the Kibble-Zurek mechanism has been used to probe the […]


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Roadmap on Quantum Magnetic Materials

Kavli Affiliate: Toeno Van Der Sar | Summary:Fundamental research on two-dimensional (2D) magnetic systems based on van der Waals materials has been gaining traction rapidly since their recent discovery. With the increase of recent knowledge, it has become clear that such materials have also a strong potential for applications in devices that combine magnetism with […]


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A tensor network formulation of Lattice Gauge Theories based only on symmetric tensors

Kavli Affiliate: Natalia Chepiga | First 5 Authors: Manu Canals, Natalia Chepiga, Luca Tagliacozzo, , | Summary: The Lattice Gauge Theory Hilbert space is divided into gauge-invariant sectors selected by the background charges. Such a projector can be directly embedded in a tensor network ansatz for gauge-invariant states as originally discussed in [Phys. Rev. B […]


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A two-dimensional 10-qubit array in germanium with robust and localised qubit control

Kavli Affiliate: Giordano Scappucci | First 5 Authors: Valentin John, Cécile X. Yu, Barnaby van Straaten, Esteban A. Rodríguez-Mena, Mauricio Rodríguez | Summary: Quantum computers require the systematic operation of qubits with high fidelity. For holes in germanium, the spin-orbit interaction allows for textit{in situ} electric fast and high-fidelity qubit gates. However, the interaction also […]


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A two-dimensional 10-qubit array in germanium with robust and localised qubit control

Kavli Affiliate: Menno Veldhorst | First 5 Authors: Valentin John, Cécile X. Yu, Barnaby van Straaten, Esteban A. Rodríguez-Mena, Mauricio Rodríguez | Summary: Quantum computers require the systematic operation of qubits with high fidelity. For holes in germanium, the spin-orbit interaction allows for textit{in situ} electric fast and high-fidelity qubit gates. However, the interaction also […]


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A two-dimensional 10-qubit array in germanium with robust and localised qubit control

Kavli Affiliate: Menno Veldhorst | First 5 Authors: Valentin John, Cécile X. Yu, Barnaby van Straaten, Esteban A. Rodríguez-Mena, Mauricio Rodríguez | Summary: Quantum computers require the systematic operation of qubits with high fidelity. For holes in germanium, the spin-orbit interaction allows for textit{in situ} electric fast and high-fidelity qubit gates. However, the interaction also […]


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Scattering theory of higher order topological phases

Kavli Affiliate: Anton Akhmerov | Summary:The surface states of intrinsic higher order topological phases are protected by the spatial symmetries of a finite sample. This property makes the existing scattering theory of topological invariants inapplicable because the scattering geometry is either incompatible with the symmetry or does not probe the bulk topology. We resolve this […]


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Fundamentals and applications of Van der Waals magnets in magnon spintronics

Kavli Affiliate: Toeno Van Der Sar | Summary:Spintronics is concerned with replacing charge current with current of spin, the electron’s intrinsic angular momentum. In magnetic insulators, spin currents are carried by magnons, the quanta of spin-wave excitations on top of the magnetically ordered state. Magnon spin currents are especially promising for information technology due to […]


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

Kavli Affiliate: Menno Veldhorst | First 5 Authors: Lucas E. A. Stehouwer, Cécile X. Yu, Barnaby van Straaten, Alberto Tosato, Valentin John | Summary: Disorder in the heterogeneous material stack of semiconductor spin qubit systems introduces noise that compromises quantum information processing, posing a challenge to coherently control large-scale quantum devices. Here, we exploit low-disorder […]


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