Publications

​Preprints

Xinxin Cai, Habitamu Y Walelign, John M Nichol. The nuclear-spin dark state in silicon. ArXiv:2405.14922 (2024).

Habitamu Y Walelign, Xinxin Cai, Bikun Li, Edwin Barnes, John M Nichol. Dynamically corrected gates in silicon singlet-triplet spin qubits. ArXiv:2405.15148 (2024).

Yujun Choi, John M Nichol, Edwin Barnes. Ballast charges for semiconductor spin qubits. ArXiv:2405.14027 (2024).

F. Ye, A. Ellaboudy, D. Albrecht, R. Vudatha, N. T. Jacobson, J. M. Nichol. Characterization of individual charge fluctuators in Si/SiGe quantum dots. ArXiv: 2401.14541 (2024).

2024

A. Iyer, Y. P. Kandel, W. Xu, J. M. Nichol, W. H. Renninger. Coherent optical coupling to surface acoustic wave devices. Nature Communications, 15, 3993 (2024).

Y. P. Kandel, S. T. Magar, A. Iyer, W. H. Renninger, J. M. Nichol. High-impedance surface acoustic wave resonators. Phys. Rev. Applied 21, 014010, (2024).

2023

G. Burkard, T. D. Ladd, J. M. Nichol, A. Pan, J. R. Petta. Semiconductor Spin Qubits. Rev. Mod. Phys. 95, 025003 , (2023).

X. Cai, E. J. Connors, L. F. Edge, J. M. Nichol. Coherent spin-valley oscillations in silicon. Nature Physics, (2023).

2022

CW Kim, J. M. Nichol, A. N. Jordan, I. Franco. Analog Quantum Simulation of the Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems with Quantum Dots and Microelectronic Circuits PRX Quantum 3, 040308 (2022).

E. J. Connors, JJ Nelson, L. F. Edge, J. M. Nichol. Charge-noise spectroscopy of Si/SiGe quantum dots via dynamically-decoupled exchange oscillations Nature Communications, 13, 940 (2022).

2021

Y. P. Kandel, H. Qiao, J. M. Nichol. Perspective on exchange-coupled quantum-dot spin chains. Applied Physics Letters. 119, 030501 (2021).

V. Lordi and J. M. Nichol. Advances and opportunities in materials science for scalable quantum computing. MRS Bulletin, (2021).

J. S. Van Dyke, Y. P. Kandel, H. Qiao,  J. M. Nichol, S. E. Economou, E. Barnes. Protecting Quantum Information in Quantum Dot Spin Chains by Driving Exchange Interactions Periodically. Physical Review B, 103, 245303 (2021).

Y. P. Kandel, H. Qiao, S. Fallahi, G. C. Gardner, M. J. Manfra, J. M. Nichol. Adiabatic quantum state transfer in a semiconductor quantum-dot spin chain Nature Communications, 12, 2156 (2021) .

H. Qiao, Y. P. Kandel, J. S. Van Dyke, S. Fallahi, G. C. Gardner, M. J. Manfra, E. Barnes, J. M. Nichol. Floquet-Enhanced Spin Swaps. Nature Communications, 12, 2142 (2021).

H. Qiao, Y. P. Kandel, S. Fallahi, G. C. Gardner, M. J. Manfra, X. Hu, J. M. Nichol. Long-distance superexchange between semiconductor quantum-dot electron spins. Physical Review Letters, 126, 017701 (2021).

2020

H. Qiao, Y. P. Kandel, K. Deng, S. Fallahi, G. C. Gardner, M. J. Manfra, E. Barnes, J. M. Nichol . Coherent multi-spin exchange in a quantum-dot spin chain. Phys. Rev. X, 10, 031006, (2020).

H. Qiao, Y. P. Kandel, S. K. Manikandan, A. N. Jordan, S. Fallahi, G. C. Gardner, M. J. Manfra, J. M. Nichol. Conditional Teleportation of Quantum-Dot Spin States. Nature Communications, 11, 3022 (2020) .

E. J. Connors, JJ Nelson, H. Qiao, J. M. Nichol. Rapid high-fidelity spin state readout in Si/SiGe quantum dots via radio-frequency reflectometry. Phys. Rev. Applied, 13 024019 (2020).

2019

E. J. Connors, JJ Nelson, H. Qiao, L. F. Edge, J. M. Nichol. Low-frequency charge noise in Si/SiGe quantum dots. Phys. Rev. B, 100, 165305 (2019).

Y. P. Kandel, H. Qiao, S. Fallahi, G.C. Gardner, M. J. Manfra, J. M. Nichol. Coherent spin state transfer via Heisenberg exchange. Nature, 573, 553–557 (2019).

• Press: Physics World, University of Rochester

E. Barnes, J. M. Nichol, S. E. Economou. Stabilization and manipulation of multi-spin states in quantum dot time crystals with Heisenberg Interactions. Physical Review B, 99 035311 (2019).

​2018

L. A. Orona, J. M. Nichol, S. P. Harvey, C. G. L. Boettcher, S. Fallahi, G. C. Gardner, M. J. Manfra, A. Yacoby. Readout of singlet-triplet qubits at large magnetic field gradients. Physical Review B, 98  125404 (2018).

2017 and earlier

J. M. Nichol, L. A. Orona, S. Fallahi, G. C. Gardner, M. J. Manfra, A. Yacoby. High-fidelity entangling gate for double-quantum-dot spin qubits. NPJ Quantum Information, 3, 3, (2017)

A. Pal., J. M. Nichol, S. P. Harvey, M. D. Shulman, V. Umansky, E. I. Rashba, A. Yacoby. B. I. Halperin. Electron spin-flip correlations due to nuclear dynamics in driven GaAs double dots. Phys. Rev. B, 95, 035306 (2017).

J. M. Nichol, S. P. Harvey, M. D. Shulman, A. Pal, V. Umansky, E. I. Rashba, B. I. Halperin, A. Yacoby. Quenching of dynamic nuclear polarization by spin-orbit coupling in GaAs quantum dots. Nature Communications, 6, 7682 (2015).

M. D. Shulman, S. P. Harvey, J. M. Nichol, S. D. Bartlett, A. C. Doherty, V. Umansky, A. Yacoby. Suppressing qubit dephasing using real-time Hamiltonian estimation. Nature Communications, 5, 5156 (2014).

J. M. Nichol, T. R. Naibert, E. R. Hemesath, L. J. Lauhon, R. Budakian. Nanoscale Fourier-Transform Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Physical Review X ,3, 031016 (2013).

J. M. Nichol, E. R. Hemesath, L. J. Lauhon, R. Budakian. Nanomechanical detection of nuclear magnetic resonance using a silicon nanowire oscillator. Physical Review B, 85, 054412 (2012).

J. M. Nichol, E. R. Hemesath, L. J. Lauhon, R. Budakian. Controlling the nonlinearity of silicon nanowire resonators using active feedback. Applied Physics Letters, 95, 123116 (2009).

J. M. Nichol, E. R. Hemesath, L. J. Lauhon, R. Budakian. Displacement detection of silicon nanowires by polarization-enhanced fiber-optic interferometry. Applied Physics Letters, 93, 193110 (2008).

J. Cederberg, J. M. Nichol, E. Frodermann, H. Tollerud, G. Hilk, J. Buysman, W. Kleiber, M. Bongard, J. Ward, K. Huber, T. Khanna, J. Randolph, and D. Nitz. An anomaly in the  isotopomer shift of the hyperfine spectrum of LiI. Journal of Chemical Physics, 123, 134321 (2005).