Bound states 2023

The germanium quantum information route: past achievements, present challenges, future opportunities

Giordano Scappucci1

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

Germanium is emerging as a versatile material to realize devices capable of encoding, processing and transmitting quantum information [1]. I will examine the materials science progress underpinning germanium-based planar heterostructures, review our most significant results demonstrating key building blocks for quantum technology, and identify the most promising avenues toward scalable quantum information processing.

[1] G. Scappucci, et al. Nat. Rev. Mat. 6, 926-943 (2021).