Nanomaterials for quantum information science and engineering

A Alfieri, SB Anantharaman, H Zhang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Quantum information science and engineering (QISE)—which entails the use of quantum
mechanical states for information processing, communications, and sensing—and the area …

Gate‐controlled quantum dots based on 2D materials

FM **g, ZZ Zhang, GQ Qin, G Luo… - Advanced Quantum …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D materials are a family of layered materials exhibiting rich exotic phenomena,
such as valley‐contrasting physics. Down to single‐particle level, unraveling fundamental …

Particle–hole symmetry protects spin-valley blockade in graphene quantum dots

L Banszerus, S Möller, K Hecker, E Icking, K Watanabe… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Particle–hole symmetry plays an important role in the characterization of topological phases
in solid-state systems. It is found, for example, in free-fermion systems at half filling and it is …

Pauli blockade of tunable two-electron spin and valley states in graphene quantum dots

C Tong, A Kurzmann, R Garreis, WW Huang, S Jele… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Pauli blockade mechanisms—whereby carrier transport through quantum dots (QD) is
blocked due to selection rules even when energetically allowed—are a direct manifestation …

Extended Hubbard model describing small multidot arrays in bilayer graphene

A Knothe, G Burkard - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We set up and parametrize a Hubbard model for interacting quantum dots in bilayer
graphene and study double dots as the smallest multidot system. We demonstrate the …

Mechanically reconfigurable van der Waals devices via low-friction gold sliding

AZ Barabas, I Sequeira, Y Yang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Interfaces of van der Waals (vdW) materials, such as graphite and hexagonal boron nitride
(hBN), exhibit low-friction sliding due to their atomically flat surfaces and weak vdW bonding …

[HTML][HTML] Single photon sources and single electron transistors in two-dimensional materials

D Litvinov, A Wu, M Barbosa, K Vaklinova… - Materials Science and …, 2025 - Elsevier
The future optoelectronic technologies may operate on the basis of individual elementary
particles, including photons and electrons. Achieving control knobs at such a fundamental …

Tunable p–n junction barriers in few-electron bilayer graphene quantum dots

FM **g, GQ Qin, ZZ Zhang, XX Song… - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Graphene quantum dots provide promising platforms for hosting spin, valley, or spin-valley
qubits. Taking advantage of their electrically generated bandgap and their ambipolar nature …

Coherent exchange-coupled nonlocal Kondo impurities

L Stocker, O Zilberberg - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
Quantum dots exhibit a variety of strongly correlated effects, eg, they can emulate localized
magnetic impurities that form a Kondo singlet with their surrounding environment …

The role of antisymmetric orbitals and electron-electron interactions on the two-particle spin and valley blockade in graphene double quantum dots

S Möller, L Banszerus, K Hecker, H Dulisch… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
We report on an experimental study of spin and valley blockade in two-electron bilayer
graphene (BLG) double quantum dots (DQDs) and explore the limits set by asymmetric …