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Quantum Information Science Publications

2023

J. A. Michaels, N. Delegan, Y. Tsaturyan, J. R. Renzas, D. D. Awschalom, J. G. Eden, and F. J. Heremans, Cover Article, Bias-Pulsed Atomic Layer Etching of 4H-Silicon Carbide Producing Sub-Angstrom Surface Roughness,” J. Vac. Sci. Tech. A 41, 032607 (2023).

Nazar Delegan, Samuel J. Whiteley, Tao Zhou, Samuel L. Bayliss,  Michael Titze, ‪Edward Bielejec, Martin V. Holt, David D. Awschalom, F. Joseph Heremans, Deterministic nanoscale quantum spin-defect implantation and diffraction strain imaging,” Invited article, Special Issue, Nanotechnology, accepted for publication (2023).

Chris P. Anderson and David D. Awschalom, The Beauty of Imperfection for Quantum Technologies,” Invited Cover Article, Physics Today 7626 (2023); Alex Lopatka, Unseen quantum technology will benefit people, and people are working and collaborating on making it happen,” Behind the Cover, News Story, Physics Today, August 2, 2023.

Paul Jerger, Yu-Xin Wang, Mykyta Onizhuk, Benjamin Soloway, Michael T. Solomon, Christopher Egerstrom, F. Joseph Heremans, Giulia Galli, Aashish A. Clerk, David D. Awschalom Detecting spin bath polarization via quantum quench phase shifts of single spins in diamond,” Phys. Rev. X Quantum, submitted (2023); arxiv: 2303.02233

M. Fukami, J. C. Marcks, D. R. Candido, L. R. Weiss, B. Soloway, S. E. Sullivan, N. Delegan, F. J. Heremans, M, E. Flatté, and D. D. Awschalom, Magnon-mediated qubit coupling determined via dissipation measurements,” Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., submitted (2023).

2022

C. P. Anderson, E. O. Glen, C. Zeledon, A. Bourassa, Y. Jin, Y. Zhu, C. Vorwerk, A. L. Crook, H. Abe, J. Ul-Hassan, T. Ohshima, N. T. Son, G. Galli, and D. D. Awschalom, Five-second coherence of a single spin with single-shot readout in silicon carbide,” Science Advances 8, eabm5912 (2022); DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abm5912

Shun Kanai, F. Joseph Heremans, Hosung Seo, Gary Wolfowicz, Christopher P. Anderson, Sean E. Sullivan, Giulia Galli, David D. Awschalom, and Hideo Ohno, Generalized scaling of spin qubit coherence in over 12,000 host materials,” Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 119, e2121808119 (2022).

Manish Kumar Singh, Gary Wolfowicz, Jianguo Wen, Sean Sullivan, Abhinav Prakash, Alan Dibos, David Awschalom, F. Joseph Heremans, and Supratik Guha, Development of a Scalable Quantum Memory Platform—Materials Science of Erbium-Doped TiO2 Thin Films on Silicon,” Appl. Phys. Lett. Materials, submitted (2022).

S. L. Bayliss, P. Deb, D. W. Laorenza, M. Onizhuk, G. Galli, D. E. Freedman, D. D. Awschalom, Enhancing spin coherence in optically addressable molecular qubits through host-matrix control, “ Phys. Rev. X 12, 031028 (2022); News story Physics 15, s116 (2022).

Alan Dibos, Michael Solomon, Sean Sullivan, Manish Singh, Kathryn Sautter, Connor Horn, Gregory Grant, Yulin Lin, Jianguo Wen, F. Heremans, Supratik Guha, David Awschalom, Purcell enhancement of erbium ions in TiO2 on silicon nanocavities,” Nano Letters 22, 6530 (2022).

Manish Singh, Jonghoon Ahn, Sean Sullivan, Abinash Kumar, Tao Zhou, Cheng Ji, Gregory Grant, Kathryn Sautter, Martin Holt, Alan Dibos, Joseph Heremans, James LeBeau, David Awschalom, Supratik Guha, Rare earth based solid-state qubit platforms,” Invited Paper, IEDM Conference, accepted (2022).

2021

Gary Wolfowicz, F. Joseph Heremans, Christopher P. Anderson, Shun Kanai, Hosung Seo, Adam Gali, Giulia Galli, David D. Awschalom, Cover Article, Quantum guidelines for solid-state spin defects,” Nature Reviews Materials 6, 906 (2021).

Mykyta Onizhuk, Kevin C. Miao, Joseph P. Blanton, He Ma, Christopher P. Anderson, Alexandre Bourassa, David D. Awschalom, Giulia Galli, ” Probing the coherence of solid-state qubits at avoided crossings,” Phys. Rev. X Quantum 2, 010311 (2021).

Masaya Fukami, Denis R. Candido, David D. Awschalom, Michael E. Flatte, Opportunities for long-range magnon-mediated entanglement of spin qubits via on- and off-resonant coupling,” Phys. Rev. X Quantum 2, 040314 (2021).

D. D. Awschalom, C. H. R. Du, R. He, F. J. Heremans, A. Hoffmann,  J. Hou, H. Kurebayashi, Y. Li, L. Liu, V. Novosad, J. Sklenar, S. E. Sullivan, D. Sun, H. Tang, V. Tiberkevic, C. Trevillian, A. W. Tsen, L. R. Weiss, W. Zhang, X. Zhang, L. Zhao, and C. W. Zollitsch, Quantum Engineering with Hybrid Magnonics Systems and Materials,” IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering 2, 5500836 (2021).

C.D. Aiello, D.D. Awschalom, H. Bernien, K.R. Brown, T.A. Brun, et al., Achieving a quantum smart workforce,” Quantum Science and Technology 6, 030501 (2021).

Jeremy Trimble, Brian Gould, F. Joseph Heremans, Shulei Zhang, David Awschalom, and Jesse Berezovsky, Relaxation of a single defect spin by the low-frequency gyrotropic mode of a magnetic vortex,” J. Appl. Phys130, 083903(2021); arXiv: 2105.00927

Yizhi Zhu, Berk Kovos, Mykyta Onizhuk, David Awschalom, Giulia Galli, Theoretical and experimental study of the nitrogen-vacancy center in 4H-SiC,” Phys. Rev. Materials 5, 074602 (2021).

Xinghan Guo, Nazar Delegan, Jonathan C. Karsch, Zixi Li, Tianle Liu, Robert Shreiner, Amy Butcher, David D. Awschalom, F. Joseph Heremans, and Alexander A. High, Tunable and transferable diamond membranes for integrated quantum technologies,” Nano Letters 21, 10392 (2021).

Yu Jin, Marco Govoni, Gary Wolfowicz, Sean E. Sullivan, F. Joseph Heremans, David D. Awschalom, Giulia Galli, Photoluminescence spectra of point defects in semiconductors: validation of first principles calculations,” Phys. Rev. Materials 5, 084603 (2021); arXiv: 2106.08608

Gary Wolfowicz, F. Joseph Heremans, and David Awschalom, Parasitic erbium photoluminescence in commercial telecom fiber optical components,” Optics Letters 46, 4852 (2021).

Gary Wolfowicz, F. Joseph Heremans, Christopher P. Anderson, Shun Kanai, Hosung Seo, Adam Gali, Giulia Galli, and David D. Awschalom, Quantum guidelines for solid-state spin defects,” Cover Article,  Nature Review Mater6, 906 (2021).

Daniel W. Laorenza, Arailym Kairalapova, Sam L. Bayliss, Tamar Goldzak, Samuel M. Greene, Leah R. Weiss, Pratiti Deb, Peter J. Mintun, Kelsey A. Collins, David D. Awschalom, Timothy C. Berkelbach, and Danna E. Freedman, Cover Article, Tunable Cr4+ molecular color centers,” J. Am. Chem. Soc 143, 21350 (2021).

2020

Manish Kumar Singh, Abhinav Prakash, Gary Wolfowicz, Jianguo Wen, Yizhong Huang, Tijana Rajh, David Awschalom, Tian Zhong, and Supratik Guha, Epitaxial Er-doped Y2O3 on Silicon for Quantum Coherent Devices,” APL Materials 8, 031111 (2020).

S. Maddali, P. Li, A. Pateras, D. Timbie, N. Delegan, A. L. Crook, H. Lee, I. Calvo-Almazan, D. Sheyfer, W. Cha, F. J. Heremans, D. D. Awschalom,V. Chamard, M. Allain and S. O. Hruszkewycz, General approaches for shear-correcting coordinate transformations in Bragg coherent diffraction imaging,” J. Appl. Cryst53, 393 (2020).

S. L. Bayliss, D. W. Laorenza, P. J. Mintun, B. Diler, D. E. Freedman, and D. D. Awschalom, Optically addressable molecular spins for quantum information processing,” Science 370, 1309 (2020).

Amy Butcher, Xinghan Guo, Robert Shreiner, Nazar Delegan, Kai Hao, Peter Duda, David D. Awschalom, F. Joseph Heremans, Alexander A. High, High-Q Nanophotonic Resonators on Diamond Membranes using Templated Atomic Layer Deposition of TiO2,” Nanoletters 20, 4603 (2020).

Kevin C. Miao, Joseph P. Blanton, Christopher P. Anderson, Alexandre Bourassa, Alexander L. Crook, Gary Wolfowicz, Hiroshi Abe, Takeshi Ohshima, David D. Awschalom, Universal coherence protection in a solid-state spin qubit,” Science 369, 1493 (2020). [Named Best of Last Year: The top Phys​.org articles of 2020]

Alexandre Bourassa, Christopher P. Anderson, Kevin C. Miao, Mykyta Onizhuk, He Ma, Alexander L. Crook, Hiroshi Abe, Jawad Ul-Hassan, Takeshi Ohshima, Nguyen T. Son, Giulia Galli, David D. Awschalom, Entanglement and control of single quantum memories in isotopically engineered silicon carbide,” Nature Materials  19, 1319 (2020); News & Views story, Quantum registers hit the right wavelengths,” Siddharth Dhomkar and John L. Morton, Nature Materials 19, 1259 (2020).

Majed S. Fataftah, Samuel L. Bayliss, Daniel W. Laorenza, Xiaoling Wang, Brian T. Phelan, C. Blake Wilson, Peter J. Mintun, Berk Diler, Michael R. Wasielewski, Mark S. Sherwin, Songi Han, David D. Awschalom, and Danna E. Freedman, A Trigonal Bipyramidal V3+ Complex as an Optically Addressable Molecular Qubit Candidate,” Journal of the American Chemical Society 142, 20400 (2020).

2019

K. C. Miao, A. Bourassa, C. P. Anderson, S. J. Whiteley, A. L. Crook, S. L. Bayliss, G. Wolfowicz, G. Thiering, P. Udvarhelyi, V. Ivády, H. Abe, T. Ohshima, Á. Gali, D. D. Awschalom, Electrically driven optical interferometry with spins in silicon carbide, Sci. Adv. 5, eaay05247 (2019).

C. P. Anderson, A. Bourassa, K. C. Miao, G. Wolfowicz, P. J. Mintun, A. L. Crook, H. Abe, J. U. Hassan, N. T. Son, T. Ohshima, D. D. Awschalom, Electrical and optical control of single spins integrated in scalable semiconductor devices, Science 366, 1225-1230 (2019).

M. Fukami, C. G. Yale, P. Andrich, X. Liu, F. J. Heremans, P. F. Nealey, and D. D. Awschalom, All-optical cryogenic thermometry based on nitrogen-vacancy centers in nanodiamonds, Phys. Rev. Applied 12, 014042 (2019).

A. Bienfait, K. J. Satzinger, Y. P. Zhong, H.-S. Chang, M.-H. Chou, C. R. Conner, É. Dumur, J. Grebel, G. A. Peairs, R. G. Povey, and A. N. Cleland, Phonon-mediated quantum state transfer and remote qubit entanglement, Science 364, 368‒371 (2019).

G. Wolfowicz, C. P. Anderson, S. J. Whiteley, and D. D. Awschalom, Heterodyne detection of radio-frequency electric fields using point defects in silicon carbide, Appl. Phys. Lett. 115, 043105 (2019).

S. J. Whiteley, G. Wolfowicz, C. P. Anderson, A. Bourassa, H. Ma, M. Ye, G. Koolstra, K. J. Satzinger, M. V. Holt, F. J. Heremans, A. N. Cleland, D. I. Schuster, G. Galli, and D. D. Awschalom, Spin-phonon interactions in silicon carbide addressed by Gaussian acoustics, Nature Phys. 15, 490–495 (2019).

K. J. Sazinger, C. R. Conner, A. Bienfait, H.-S. Chang, M.-H. Chou, A. Y. Cleland, E. Dumur, J. Grebel, G. A. Peairs, R. G. Povey, S. J. Whiteley, Y. P. Zhong, D. D. Awschalom, D. I. Schuster, and A. N. Cleland. Simple non-galvanic flip-chip integration method for hybrid quantum systems, Appl. Phys. Lett. 114, 173501 (2019).

Bienfait, K. J. Satzinger, Y. P. Zhong, H.-S. Chang, M.-H. Chou, C. R. Conner, É. Dumur, J. Grebel, G. A. Peairs, R. G. Povey, A. N. Cleland, Phonon-mediated quantum state transfer and remote qubit entanglement”, Science 364, 368-371 (2019).

S. J. Whiteley, F. J. Heremans, G. Wolfowicz, D. D. Awschalom, and M. V. Holt, Correlating dynamic strain and photoluminescence of solid-state defects with stroboscopic x-ray diffraction microscopy, Nature Commun. 10, 3386 (2019).

V. Ivády, J. Davidsson, N. Delegan, A. L. Falk, P. V. Klimov, S. J. Whiteley, S. O. Hruszkewycz, M. V. Holt, F. J. Heremans, N. T. Son, D. D. Awschalom, I. A. Abrikosov, and A. Gali, Stabilization of point-defect spin qubits in quantum wells, Nature Commun. 10, 5607 (2019)

2018

P. Andrich, J. Li, X. Liu, F. J. Heremans, P. F. Nealey, and D. D. Awschalom, Microscale resolution thermal mapping using a flexible platform of patterned quantum sensors, Nano Lett. 18(8), 4684‒4690 (2018).

A. Shearrow, G. Koolstra, S. J. Whiteley, N. Earnest, P. S. Barry, F. J. Heremans, D. D. Awschalom,E. Shirokoff, and D. I. Schuster, Atomic layer deposition of titanium nitride for quantum circuits (Featured on cover), Appl. Phys. Lett. 113, 212601 (2018).

K. J. Satzinger, Y. P. Zhong, H.-S. Chang, G. A. Peairs, A. Bienfait, M.-H. Chou, A. Y. Cleland, C. R. Conner, E. Dumur, J. Grebel, I. Gutierrez, B. H. November, R. G.Povey, S. J. Whiteley, D. Awschalom, D. I. Schuster, and A. N. Cleland, Quantum control of surface acoustic-wave phonons, Nature 563, 661‒665 (2018).

G. Wolfowicz, S. J. Whiteley, and D. D. Awschalom, Electrometry by optical charge conversion of deep defects in 4H-SiC, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 201806998 (2018).

S. O. Hruszkewycz, S. Maddali, C. P. Anderson, W. Cha, K. C. Miao, M. J. Highland, A. Ulvestad, D. D. Awschalom, and F. J. Heremans, Strain annealing of SiC nanoparticles revealed through Bragg coherent diffraction imaging for quantum technologies, Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 086001 (2018).

2017

B. B. Zhou, A. Baksic, H. Ribeiro, C. G. Yale, F. J. Heremans, P. C. Jerger, A. Auer, G. Burkard, A. A. Clerk, and D. D. Awschalom, Accelerated quantum control using superadiabatic driving in a solid-state lambda system, Nature Phys. 13, 330–334 (2017).

P. Andrich, C. F. de las Casas, X. Liu, H. L. Bretscher, J. R. Berman, F. J. Heremans, P. F. Nealey, and D. D. Awschalom, Long-range spin wave mediated control of defect qubits in nanodiamonds, npj Quantum Information 3, 28 (2017).

B. B. Zhou, P. C. Jerger, V. O. Shkolnikov, F. J. Heremans, G. Burkard, and D. D. Awschalom., Holonomic quantum control by coherent optical excitation in diamond, Phys.Rev. Lett. 119, 140503 (2017).

S. O. Hruszkewycz, W. Cha, P. Andrich, C. P. Anderson, A. Ulvestad, R. Harder, P. H. Fuoss, D. D. Awschalom, and F. J. Heremans, In situ study of annealing-induced strain relaxation in diamond nanoparticles using Bragg coherent diffraction imaging, APL Materials 5, 026105 (2017).

G. Wolfowicz, C. P. Anderson, A. L. Yeats, S. J. Whiteley, J. Niklas, O. G. Poluektov, F. J. Heremans, and D. D. Awschalom, Optical charge state control of spin defects in 4H-SiC, Nature Commun. 8, 1876 (2017).