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An array of four germanium qubits

A four-qubit quantum processor based on germanium hole spin quantum dots is presented. Universal quantum logic is demonstrated on qubits that are positioned in a two-by-two grid, revealing that spin qubits can be coupled in two dimensions.
  1. Nico W. Hendrickx

    1. QuTech and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.

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  2. Menno Veldhorst

    1. QuTech and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.

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This is a summary of Hendrickx, N. W. et al. A four-qubit germanium quantum processor. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03332-6 (2021).

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