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Published in Nano Letters: Remote Doping of Scalable Nanowire Branches

Selective-area epitaxy provides a path toward high crystal quality, scalable and complex nanowire networks. Here, we demonstrate remote-doping in InGaAs nanowire networks and find weak anti-localization—a signature of strong spin–orbit…
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On arXiv: Out-of-plane corrugations in graphene based van der Waals heterostructures

2D materials are often envisioned as flat monoatomic truly 2D layers. However, out-of-plane corrugations are inevitably present. In an in-plane magnetic field, the ripples lead to random, inhomogeneous perpendicular fields, causing…
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Luca Forrer defends MSc thesis

Luca Forrer successfully completed his MSc thesis "Quantum Transport in Templated Indium Arsenide Nanowires" and defended his results in the group (on zoom). In this collaboration with Prof. Anna Fontcuberta i Morral’s group, the InAs wires…
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On arXiv: Edge State Wave Functions from Tunneling Spectroscopy

We use the lowest five modes of a quantum wire to probe adjacent quantum Hall edge state in tunneling spectroscopy. We self-consistently solve the Poisson-Schrödinger equations to simulate the spectroscopy, reproducing the experiment in…
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TOPSQUAD kick-off meeting in Twente!

Kick-off meeting TOPSQUAD FET open TOpologically Protected & Scalable QUAntum bits, at the University of Twente from where it is coordinated, with partners Uni Basel, TU Eindhoven and IST Austria, plus spin-offs https://baspi.ch and…
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Simon Svab joins groups as PhD student!!

With a MSc from our group and a BSc in Nanosciences from the University of Basel, Simon Svab is starting his PhD thesis on the TOPSQUAD FET project on topological states in Ge/Si nanowires. Welcome back to the group, and looking forward to…
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Big week for spin-off Basel Precision Instruments GmbH: shipping out 40 preamps!

After Davide, Sascha and Michael completed, tested and characterized a set of preamps, packing and shipping 40 units to customers around the world is taking place this week! Exciting to ship these instruments on time, for customers to do…
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Prof. Attila Geresdi, Chalmers University, starts EMP access on on-chip Indium demagnetization cooling

Prof. Attila Geresdi, Chalmers University, Sweden, is starting a user access project on the Basel node of the European Microkelvin Platform (EMP). The project is to push the frontier of on-and-off-chip cooling Coulomb blockade thermometers…
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On arXiv: Progress in cooling nanoelectronic devices to ultra-low temperatures

A number of groups worldwide are working to produce sub-millikelvin on-chip electron temperatures, motivated by the possibility to observe new physics and improving quantum device performance. In this review, we focus on on-chip…
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On arXiv: Quantum device fine-tuning using unsupervised embedding learning

We experimentally demonstrate an algorithm capable of fi ne-tuning several device parameters at once. The algorithm acquires a measurement, scores it using a variational auto-encoder, and optimizes gate voltage via the score in real-time in…
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Published in PRB: Symmetry breaking of the persistent spin helix in quantum transport

We introduce a new spin quantization axis via the persistent spin helix, revealing a full decoupling of the Cooperon triplet scattering modes as well as decoupled Landau levels. This makes it possible to derive a closed-form expression for…
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Asser Elsayed, Imec Leuven, starts EMP access on Si and GeSi Qubit materials

Asser Elsayed from the group of Dr. Iuliana Radu and Dr. Bogdan Govoreanu, Imec Leuven, Belgium, is starting a user access project on the Basel node of the European Microkelvin Platform (EMP). The project is working to develop Si and GeSi…
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New on the arXiv: Machine learning automatic tuning of a quantum dot

We demonstrate a statistical tuning algorithm that navigates the entire large parameter space of a gate-defined quantum dot. Using just a few modelling assumptions, we demonstrate fully automated tuning to the double dot regime.This also…
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Mathieu de Kruijf, TU Eindhoven, starts EMP access on Si:finFET Spin Qubit

Mathieu de Kruijf from the group of Prof. Erik Bakkers, TU Eindhoven, is starting a user access project on the Basel node of the European Microkelvin Platform (EMP). The project is working to implement hole spins in gate defined Si finFET…
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NCCR Spin Qubits announced today!

Today, the Swiss Federal Council and the SNSF have announced six new national research programs, among them the NCCR SPIN, hosted at the Department of Physics at the University of Basel, collaborating with partners IBM, EPFL and ETHZ. The…
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