Realization of a minimal Kitaev chain in coupled quantum dots

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Wimmer | First 5 Authors: Tom Dvir, Guanzhong Wang, Nick van Loo, Chun-Xiao Liu, Grzegorz P. Mazur | Summary: Majorana bound states constitute one of the simplest examples of emergent non-Abelian excitations in condensed matter physics. A toy model proposed by Kitaev shows that such states can arise at the ends of […]


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Sustained unidirectional rotation of a self-organized DNA rotor on a nanopore

Kavli Affiliate: Cees Dekker | First 5 Authors: Xin Shi, Anna-Katharina Pumm, Jonas Isensee, Wenxuan Zhao, Daniel Verschueren | Summary: Flow-driven rotary motors drive functional processes in human society such as windmills and water wheels. Although examples of such rotary motors also feature prominently in cell biology, their synthetic construction at the nanoscale has thus […]


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Sustained unidirectional rotation of a self-organized DNA rotor on a nanopore

Kavli Affiliate: Cees Dekker | First 5 Authors: Xin Shi, Anna-Katharina Pumm, Jonas Isensee, Wenxuan Zhao, Daniel Verschueren | Summary: Flow-driven rotary motors drive functional processes in human society such as windmills and water wheels. Although examples of such rotary motors also feature prominently in cell biology, their synthetic construction at the nanoscale has thus […]


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A DNA turbine powered by a transmembrane potential across a nanopore

Kavli Affiliate: Cees Dekker | First 5 Authors: Xin Shi, Anna-Katharina Pumm, Christopher Maffeo, Fabian Kohler, Elija Feigl | Summary: Rotary motors play key roles in energy transduction, from macroscale windmills to nanoscale turbines such as ATP synthase in cells. Despite our capabilities to construct engines at many scales, developing functional synthetic turbines at the […]


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Mechanical dissipation by substrate-mode coupling in SiN resonators

Kavli Affiliate: Simon Groblacher | First 5 Authors: Matthijs H. J. de Jong, Malte A. ten Wolde, Andrea Cupertino, Simon Gröblacher, Peter G. Steeneken | Summary: State-of-the-art nanomechanical resonators are heralded as a central component for next-generation clocks, filters, resonant sensors and quantum technologies. To practically build these technologies will require monolithic integration of microchips, […]


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Towards a spectrally multiplexed quantum repeater

Kavli Affiliate: Wolfgang Tittel | First 5 Authors: Tanmoy Chakraborty, Antariksha Das, Hedser van Brug, Oriol Pietx-Casas, Peng-Cheng Wang | Summary: Extended quantum networks are based on quantum repeaters that often rely on the distribution of entanglement in an efficient and heralded fashion over multiple network nodes. Many repeater architectures require multiplexed sources of entangled […]


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Topological Entanglement Stabilization in Superconducting Quantum Circuits

Kavli Affiliate: Eliska Greplova | First 5 Authors: Guliuxin Jin, Eliska Greplova, , , | Summary: Topological properties of quantum systems are one of the most intriguing emerging phenomena in condensed matter physics. A crucial property of topological systems is the symmetry-protected robustness towards local noise. Experiments have demonstrated topological phases of matter in various […]


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Topological Entanglement Stabilization in Superconducting Quantum Circuits

Kavli Affiliate: Eliska Greplova | First 5 Authors: Guliuxin Jin, Eliska Greplova, , , | Summary: Topological properties of quantum systems are one of the most intriguing emerging phenomena in condensed matter physics. A crucial property of topological systems is the symmetry-protected robustness towards local noise. Experiments have demonstrated topological phases of matter in various […]


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Nonlinear response and crosstalk of strongly driven silicon spin qubits

Kavli Affiliate: Viatcheslav V. Dobrovitski | First 5 Authors: Brennan Undseth, Xiao Xue, Mohammad Mehmandoost, Maximilian Russ, Nodar Samkharadze | Summary: Micromagnet-based electric dipole spin resonance (EDSR) offers an attractive path for the near-term scaling of dense arrays of silicon spin qubits in gate-defined quantum dots while maintaining long coherence times and high control fidelities. […]


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Nonlinear response and crosstalk of electrically driven silicon spin qubits

Kavli Affiliate: Viatcheslav V. Dobrovitski | First 5 Authors: Brennan Undseth, Xiao Xue, Mohammad Mehmandoost, Maximilian Russ, Pieter T. Eendebak | Summary: Micromagnet-based electric dipole spin resonance (EDSR) offers an attractive path for the near-term scaling of dense arrays of silicon spin qubits in gate-defined quantum dots while maintaining long coherence times and high control […]


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