Department of Physics

Hsu, C.-H., Klinovaja, J. and Loss, D. (2026) ‘On the cutting edge: helical liquids in time-reversal-invariant topological materials’, Journal of Physics: Materials, 9(1), p. 011001. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7639/ae2543.

Weldeyesus, H. et al. (2025) ‘Edge-State Selective Measurement of Dispersions in the Quantum Hall Regime’, Physical Review Letters, 135(24). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/h5ql-rnvh.

Arya, Chaitanya et al. (2025) ‘Phonon Interference Effects in GaAs-GaP Superlattice Nanowires’, ACS Nano [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c10312.

Abdalla, Adam et al. (2025) ‘Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry: summary of the second workshop’, EPJ Quantum Technology, 12. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-025-00344-3.

Gupta, S. et al. (2025) ‘Dual epitaxial telecom spin-photon interfaces with long-lived coherence’, 16. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-64780-6.

Khan, M.Z. et al. (2025) ‘Imaging magnetic order in a two-dimensional iron-rich phyllosilicate’, 6. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-025-00936-7.

Wilcox, J.A. et al. (2025) ‘Magnetically controlled vortex dynamics in a ferromagnetic superconductor’, Communications Materials, 6(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-025-00833-z.

Giunto, A. et al. (2025) ‘Flash Lamp Annealing Enables Dislocation Density Reduction and Probing of Defect Dynamics in Epitaxial Germanium for On‑Chip Integration’. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. Available at: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-7842298/v2.

Schrauwen, M. et al. (2025) ‘Thermodynamic Framework for Coherently Driven Systems’, 135. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/zdbv-rksc.

Wu, H. et al. (2025) ‘Laterally π-Extended Polyhelicenes’, 147. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c15494.

Luethi, M. et al. (2025) ‘Properties and prevalence of false poor man’s Majoranas in two- and three-site artificial Kitaev chains’, Physical Review B, 112(20). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/bg4z-vx9m.

Healey, A.J. et al. (2025) ‘Imaging Magnetic Switching in Orthogonally Twisted Stacks of a van der Waals Antiferromagnet’, ACS Nano [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c12297.

Nigro, Arianna et al. (2025) ‘Strain Engineering of Ge Quantum Wells in Planar Ge/Si 1 − x Ge x Heterostructures’, Advanced Materials Interfaces [Preprint]. 02.11.2025. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202500620.

Greljo, A., Díaz, X.P. and Thomsen, A.E. (2025) ‘Insights on the cosmic origin of matter from proton stability’, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2025(11), p. 043. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/11/043.

Weber, T. et al. (2025) ‘Advanced SQUID-on-lever scanning probe for high-sensitivity magnetic microscopy with sub-100-nm spatial resolution’, 24. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/6s24-vz3k.

Zhou, Z. et al. (2025) ‘Gate-tunable double-dome superconductivity in twisted trilayer graphene’, 21. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-03040-2.

Miserev, D. et al. (2025) ‘High-Temperature Superconductivity from Finite-Range Attractive Interaction’, 135. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/glch-3385.

Hinaut, Antoine et al. (2025) ‘Superlubricity of Borophene: Tribological Properties in Comparison to hBN’, ACS Nano, 19(41), pp. 36536–36543. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c11587.

An, S.J. et al. (2025) ‘Radio-Frequency Detection of Fabry–Pérot Interference and Quantum Capacitance in Long-Channel Three-Dimensional Dirac Semimetal Cd3As2Nanowires’, 7. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.5c01596.

Sangwan, Nikunj et al. (2025) ‘Impact of Surface Treatments on the Transport Properties of Germanium 2DHGs’, ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 25.09.2025, 7(19), pp. 8844–8849. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.5c01069.

Corazza, A. et al. (2025) ‘Homogeneous Free-Standing Nanostructures from Bulk Diamond over Millimeter Scales for Quantum Technologies’, 25. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c03083.

Pawlak, R. et al. (2025) ‘Toward Gate-Tunable Topological Superconductivity in a Supramolecular Electron Spin Lattice’, 25. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c03396.

Schmid, G.-L. et al. (2025) ‘Squeezing light with optomechanical and spin-light quantum interfaces’, Comptes Rendus. Physique, 26(G1), pp. 641–657. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5802/crphys.265.

Haldar, S. et al. (2025) ‘High-efficiency microwave photodetection by cavity-coupled double quantum dots with single-cavity-photon sensitivity’, 24. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/jlxt-19h9.

Zhou, Y. et al. (2025) ‘Quantum Behavior of 10D Planck Unit: Stationary Electron, Compton Photon and Gravitational Field’, 17. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/sym17101636.

Zou, J. et al. (2025) ‘Topological spin textures enabling quantum transmission’, 7. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/tzmn-rz7b.

Post, J. et al. (2025) ‘Optical microcavity characterization via resonance spectra and modes’, 112. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/y63l-zwr5.

Pinchenkova, V., Laubscher, K. and Klinovaja, J. (2025) ‘Fractional chiral second-order topological insulator from a three-dimensional array of coupled wires’, 112. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/3k8s-d6ht.

Spethmann, M., Stano, P. and Loss, D. (2025) ‘Spin-qubit readout analysis based on a hidden Markov model’, 112. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/x8yx-5111.

Kozin, V.K. et al. (2025) ‘Schottky anomaly in a cavity-coupled double quantum well’, Physical Review Research, 7(3). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/43vj-wst3.

Hiret, P. et al. (2025) ‘Radio-frequency capacitively coupled plasma parameters evolution as a function of magnetic field strength’, Vacuum, 239. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vacuum.2025.114349.

Hiret, P. et al. (2025) ‘Measurements of RF plasma sheath thickness in magnetic field up to 500 mT using a floating spiral probe’, Physics of Plasmas, 32. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0277005.

Antusch, Stefan, Hinze, Kevin and Saad, Shaikh (2025) ‘Metastable cosmic strings and gravitational waves from flavor symmetry breaking’, Physical Review D. 29.08.2025, 112(3). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/528x-qzs3.

Kurlov, Denis V. et al. (2025) ‘Quantum computation with hybrid parafermion-spin qubits’, Physical Review Research. 25.08.2025, 7(3). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/7cd9-c7yc.

Qu, Guanxiong et al. (2025) ‘Density matrix renormalization group study of domain wall qubits’, Physical Review B. 13.08.2025, 112(5). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/mpgp-pqk2.

Liu, Zhao et al. (2025) ‘Chemical Coordination Induced Fullerene Dimers on Hot Pt(111)’, Angewandte Chemie - International Edition. 03.06.2025, 64(33). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202505101.

Weldeyesus, Henok et al. (2025) ‘Dominant end-tunneling effect in two distinct Luttinger liquids coexisting in one quantum wire’, Nature Communications. 30.07.2025, 16(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-62325-5.

Ungerer, Jann H. et al. (2025) ‘A dephasing sweet spot with enhanced dipolar coupling’, Communications Physics. 23.07.2025, 8(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-025-02216-9.

Prech, K. et al. (2025) ‘Optimal Time Estimation and the Clock Uncertainty Relation for Stochastic Processes’, 15. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/rpls-mp8z.

Yao, Yuanpeng et al. (2025) ‘Unraveling the Interfacial Properties of Twisted Single-Crystal Au(111)/MoS2 Heterostructures: A Pathway to Robust Superlubricity’, Advanced Science. 04.04.2025, 12(21). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202415884.

Weegen, M. et al. (2025) ‘Experimental implementation of an ion-nanowire hybrid system’, Review of Scientific Instruments. 18.06.2025, 96(6). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0260410.

Governale, Michele et al. (2025) ‘Entangled Photon-Pair Emission in Waveguide Circuit QED from a Cooper Pair Splitter’, PRX Quantum. 29.05.2025, 6(2). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/prxquantum.6.020339.

Sojo-Gordillo, Jose M. et al. (2025) ‘Durable Dense Packed All-Silicon Micro-Thermoelectric Generator for IoT Applications’, Advanced Functional Materials, 35. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202419639.

Jha, Rounak et al. (2025) ‘Large Tunable Kinetic Inductance in a Twisted Graphene Superconductor’, Physical Review Letters. 27.05.2025, 134(21). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.134.216001.

Zhang, Difei, Schäfer, Frank and Arnold, Julian (2025) ‘Machine learning the Ising transition: A comparison between discriminative and generative approaches’, Journal of Physics Communications. 20.05.2025, 9. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1088/2399-6528/addb05.

Krishnakumar, Rajiv et al. (2025) ‘Extreme Learning Machines for Attention-based Multiple Instance Learning in Whole-Slide Image Classification’, arXiv [Preprint]. (arXiv). Available at: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.10510.

Greljo, A., Tiblom, H. and Valenti, A. (2025) ‘New physics through flavor tagging at FCC-ee’, SciPost Physics, 18(5). Available at: https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphys.18.5.152.

Marot, L. et al. (2025) ‘Mirror dual cleaning of ITER equatorial diagnostic Wide Angle Viewing System’, Fusion Engineering and Design, 214. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2025.114892.

Huang, Shuyu et al. (2025) ‘Moiré Energy Dissipation Driven by Nonlinear Dynamics’, ACS Nano. 30.04.2025, 19(18), pp. 17365–17373. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c16817.

D’Astolfo, Philipp et al. (2025) ‘On-Surface Synthesis and Cryogenic Exfoliation of Sterically Frustrated Atropisomers’, ACS Nano. 01.04.2025, 19(14), pp. 13805–13816. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c16645.

Hegde, Abhaya S., Potts, Patrick P. and Landi, Gabriel T. (2025) ‘Time-Resolved Stochastic Dynamics of Quantum Thermal Machines’, Physical Review Letters. 15.04.2025, 134(15). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.134.150402.

Zou, Ji et al. (2025) ‘Tunable ultrafast dynamics of antiferromagnetic vortices in nanoscale dots’, Physical Review Research. 08.04.2025, 7(2). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.7.023023.

Broadway, David A. et al. (2025) ‘Reconstruction of nontrivial magnetization textures from magnetic field images using neural networks’, Physical Review Applied. 04.04.2025, 23(4). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.23.044012.

Sivan, Aswathi K. and Galán-González, Alejandro (2025) ‘Exploring Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting Using Transient Absorption Spectroscopy’, Particle and Particle Systems Characterization. 06.11.2024, 42(4), p. Online ahead of print. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/ppsc.202400164.

Huber, François et al. (2025) ‘Ultra-Sensitive Biosensors for Medical Applications Based on Nanomechanics: From Detection of Synthetic Biomolecules to Analysis of Sepsis in Pediatric Patients’, Biosensors. 28.03.2025, 15(4). Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/bios15040217.

Zenelaj, Drilon, Samuelsson, Peter and Potts, Patrick P. (2025) ‘Wigner-function formalism for the detection of single microwave pulses in a resonator-coupled double quantum dot’, Physical Review Research. 24.03.2025, 7(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.7.013305.

Davighi, Joe, Greljo, Admir and Selimović, Nudžeim (2025) ‘Topological Portal to the Dark Sector’, Physical Review Letters. 20.03.2025, 134(11). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.134.111804.

Luethi, Melina et al. (2025) ‘Fate of poor man’s Majoranas in the long Kitaev chain limit’, Physical Review B. 20.03.2025, 111(11). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.111.115419.

Feng, Junya et al. (2025) ‘Long-range crossed Andreev reflection in a topological insulator nanowire proximitized by a superconductor’, Nature Physics. 11.03.2025, p. Online ahead of print. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02806-y.

Nakazawa, Kazuki et al. (2025) ‘Interband contributions to nonlinear transport in semiconductor nanostructures’, Physical Review B. 11.03.2025, 111(12). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.111.125305.

Gubler, Moritz et al. (2025) ‘Accuracy of charge densities in electronic structure calculations’, The Journal of Chemical Physics. 03.03.2025, 162(9). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0251833.

Navarro-Marín, Gema et al. (2025) ‘Non-covalent Molecular Wires of Double Thiahelicene on Cu(111): A nc-AFM Study at Room Temperature’, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 05.03.2025, 129(11), pp. 5637–5644. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c07662.

Stano, Peter and Loss, Daniel (2025) ‘Quantification of the heavy-hole–light-hole mixing in two-dimensional hole gases’, Physical Review B. 03.03.2025, 111(11). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.111.115301.

Dmitriev, Artem M. et al. (2025) ‘Platinum as a first mirror material for fusion applications: a comparison with rhodium’, Nuclear Fusion. 12.02.2025, 65(3). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/adb0dc.

Eggli, Rafael S. et al. (2025) ‘Coupling a high-Q resonator to a spin qubit with all-electrical control’, Physical Review Research. 24.02.2025, 7(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.7.013197.

Liu, Jung-Ching et al. (2025) ‘Spin Excitations of High Spin Iron(II) in Metal–Organic Chains on Metal and Superconductor’, Advanced Science, 12(7). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202412351.

Karnatak, Paritosh and Schönenberger, Christian (2025) ‘‘Unconventional’ superconductivity probed in twisted graphene’, Nature. 05.02.2025, 638(8049), pp. 44–45. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-00057-8.

Aldeghi, Michele et al. (2025) ‘Simulation and Measurement of Stray Fields for the Manipulation of Spin Qubits in One- and Two-Dimensional Arrays’, Nano Letters. 22.01.2025, 25(5), pp. 1838–1844. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c05037.

De Sousa, Guilherme et al. (2025) ‘Continuous feedback protocols for cooling and trapping a quantum harmonic oscillator’, Physical Review E. 28.01.2025, 111(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.111.014152.

Haldar, Subhomoy et al. (2025) ‘Coherence of an Electronic Two-Level System under Continuous Charge Sensing by a Quantum Dot Detector’, Physical Review Letters. 15.01.2025, 134(2). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.134.023601.

Li, Chao et al. (2025) ‘Individual Assembly of Radical Molecules on Superconductors: Demonstrating Quantum Spin Behavior and Bistable Charge Rearrangement’, ACS Nano. 13.01.2025, 19(3), pp. 3403–3413. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c12387.

Prech, Kacper, Potts, Patrick P. and Landi, Gabriel T. (2025) ‘Role of Quantum Coherence in Kinetic Uncertainty Relations’, Physical Review Letters. 13.01.2025, 134(2). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.134.020401.

Pawlak, Rémy et al. (2025) ‘On-Surface Synthesis and Characterization of Radical Spins in Kagome Graphene’, ACS Nano. 10.01.2025, 19(4), pp. 4768–4777. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c15519.

Kaur, Yashpreet et al. (2025) ‘Thermal Rectification in Telescopic Nanowires: Impact of Thermal Boundary Resistance’, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. 18.12.2024, 17(1), pp. 1883–1891. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c14920.

Kozin, Valerii K. et al. (2025) ‘Cavity-enhanced superconductivity via band engineering’, Physical Review B. 07.01.2025, 111(3). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.111.035410.

Aldeghi, M. (2025) Micro- and nanomagnet designs for the manipulation of spin qubits. Doctoral Thesis.

Arnold, Julian (2025) Machine learning phase transitions: a probabilistic perspective. Doctoral Thesis. University of Basel.

Balduini, F. (2025) Electrical transport and fermiology in microstructured topological semimetals. Doctoral Thesis.

Bersano, Fabio et al. (2025) ‘Nanomole Process: Enabling Localized Metallic Back-Gates for Enhanced Cryogenic Front-to-Back Coupling in FDSOI Quantum Dots’, IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society [Preprint]. 25.02.2025. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/jeds.2025.3545661.

Bürgler, Beat (2025) Extending the NV quantum sensing toolbox: all-optical nuclear sensing and surface spin NMR. Doctoral Thesis. University of Basel.

Carballido, MJ (2025) Fixing the holes in holes - on optimizing and scaling the operation of hot hole spin qubits. Doctoral Thesis.

Chevalier Kwon, P. (2025) Coupling a high impedance resonator to a Ge/Si nanowire. Doctoral Thesis.

Drechsel, Carl et al. (2025) ‘Discharge and electron correlation of radical molecules in a supramolecular assembly on superconducting Pb(111)’, Nanoscale Horizons. 15.08.2025, 10(10), pp. 2365print–2373. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1039/d5nh00462d.

Eggli, Rafael Sebastian (2025) Gate-reflectometry with hole spins. Doctoral Thesis. University of Basel.

Erbe, Marcel (2025) Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors for integrated photonic circuits on GaAs. Doctoral Thesis. University of Basel.

Forrer, Nicolas (2025) Germanium/silicon nanowire heterostructures for quantum computing. Doctoral Thesis. University of Basel.

Gubler, Moritz (2025) Simulation methods for understanding electronic structures and structural properties of complex materials. Doctoral Thesis. University of Basel.

Guex, Anne Géraldine et al. (2025) ‘Conditioned Media from Mechanically Stimulated Macrophages Upregulate Osteogenic Genes in Human Mesenchymal Stromal Cells’, Advanced Healthcare Materials. 22.06.2025, p. Online ahead of print––. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202500706.

Happacher, Jodok Maria (2025) Low Temperature Quantum Sensing with Single Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond. Doctoral Thesis. University of Basel.

Hinze, Kevin (2025) Observable signatures of grand unification in particle physics and cosmology. Doctoral Thesis. University of Basel.

Hiret, Paul (2025) Radiofrequency magnetised and unmagnetised plasma sheath/bulk properties and their influence on the erosion distribution. Doctoral Thesis. University of Basel.

Huang, W. (2025) Electronic transport properties in hexagonal boron nitride encapsulated carbon FETs. Doctoral Thesis.

Huber, H. (2025) Efficient methods of exploring the potential energy surface. Doctoral Thesis.

Jia, Shichao (2025) Ultrasonic sample handling by acoustic radiation force: applications in acoustic levitation and acoustic tweezing. Doctoral Thesis. University of Basel.

Kara, Gökhan (2025) Hybrid phototransistors: understanding the IR photoactive interface. Doctoral Thesis. University of Basel.

Kaur, Yashpreet (2025) Thermal rectification in designed nanowires. Doctoral Thesis. University of Basel.

Kehrer, Tobias Maurice (2025) Novel features in quantum synchronization and quantum simulation using superconducting qudits. Doctoral Thesis. University of Basel.

Kozai, Toshiya (2025) Nanoscopic structure and dynamics of the permeability barrier in the nuclear pore complex. Doctoral Thesis. University of Basel.

Krummenacher, M. (2025) Understanding configurational entropy and polymorphism: a computational study of lithium alanate and molecular crystals . Doctoral Thesis.

Legendre, J. et al. (2025) ‘Near-field optoelectronic heat engines and thermal emission of subwavelength objects’, in International Conference on Metamaterials Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics. Malaga, Spain (International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics), pp. 963–964.