Mr Mark van Blankenstein

Mr Mark van Blankenstein

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Bachelor of Science in applied physics, Delft university of technology, the Netherlands

Master of Science in applied physics, Delft university of technology, the Netherlands

Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications

I am a PhD candidate working on donor spin qubits in Silicon as part of prof. Andrea Morello's lab. Being from the Netherlands I moved to Sydney in 2023. Before this I did my master in applied physics at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Here I researched the quantum Hall effect in superconductor-semiconductor hybrid systems. 

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  • Journal articles | 2025
    Stemp HG; van Blankenstein MR; Asaad S; Mądzik MT; Joecker B; Firgau HR; Laucht A; Hudson FE; Dzurak AS; Itoh KM; Jakob AM; Johnson BC; Jamieson DN; Morello A, 2025, 'Scalable entanglement of nuclear spins mediated by electron exchange', Science, 389, pp. 1234 - 1238, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.ady3799
    Journal articles | 2025
    Vaartjes A; Nurizzo M; Zaw LH; Wilhelm B; Yu X; Holmes D; Schwienbacher D; Kringhøj A; van Blankenstein MR; Jakob AM; Hudson FE; Itoh KM; Murray RJ; Blume-Kohout R; Anand N; Dzurak AS; Jamieson DN; Scarani V; Morello A, 2025, 'Certifying the quantumness of a nuclear spin qudit through its uniform precession', Newton, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.newton.2025.100017
    Journal articles | 2025
    Yu X; Wilhelm B; Holmes D; Vaartjes A; Schwienbacher D; Nurizzo M; Kringhøj A; Blankenstein MRV; Jakob AM; Gupta P; Hudson FE; Itoh KM; Murray RJ; Blume-Kohout R; Ladd TD; Anand N; Dzurak AS; Sanders BC; Jamieson DN; Morello A, 2025, 'Schrödinger cat states of a nuclear spin qudit in silicon', Nature Physics, 21, pp. 362 - 367, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02745-0
    Journal articles | 2024
    Stemp HG; Asaad S; Blankenstein MRV; Vaartjes A; Johnson MAI; Mądzik MT; Heskes AJA; Firgau HR; Su RY; Yang CH; Laucht A; Ostrove CI; Rudinger KM; Young K; Blume-Kohout R; Hudson FE; Dzurak AS; Itoh KM; Jakob AM; Johnson BC; Jamieson DN; Morello A, 2024, 'Tomography of entangling two-qubit logic operations in exchange-coupled donor electron spin qubits', Nature Communications, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52795-4
  • Preprints | 2026
    Stemp HG; van Blankenstein MR; Wilhelm B; Asaad S; Mądzik MT; Laucht A; Hudson FE; Dzurak AS; Itoh KM; Jakob AM; Johnson BC; Jamieson DN; Morello A, 2026, Electron readout contrast enhancement in the parallel nuclear regime of an exchange-coupled donor spin qubit system, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2602.14426
    Preprints | 2025
    Stemp HG; Asaad S; van Blankenstein MR; Vaartjes A; Johnson MAI; Mądzik MT; Heskes AJA; Firgau HR; Su RY; Yang CH; Laucht A; Ostrove CI; Rudinger KM; Young K; Blume-Kohout R; Hudson FE; Dzurak AS; Itoh KM; Jakob AM; Johnson BC; Jamieson DN; Morello A, 2025, Tomography of entangling two-qubit logic operations in exchange-coupled donor electron spin qubits, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2309.15463
    Preprints | 2025
    Stemp HG; Blankenstein MRV; Asaad S; Mądzik MT; Joecker B; Firgau HR; Laucht A; Hudson FE; Dzurak AS; Itoh KM; Jakob AM; Johnson BC; Jamieson DN; Morello A, 2025, Scalable entanglement of nuclear spins mediated by electron exchange, http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06872v1
    Preprints | 2025
    Vaartjes A; Su RY; O'Neill LA; Steinacker P; Goenka G; van Blankenstein MR; Yu X; Wilhelm B; Jakob AM; Hudson FE; Itoh KM; Yang CH; Dzurak AS; Jamieson DN; Nurizzo M; Holmes D; Laucht A; Morello A, 2025, Maximizing the nondemolition nature of a quantum measurement via an adaptive readout protocol, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2511.10978
    Preprints | 2024
    Vaartjes A; Nurizzo M; Zaw LH; Wilhelm B; Yu X; Holmes D; Schwienbacher D; Kringhøj A; Blankenstein MRV; Jakob AM; Hudson FE; Itoh KM; Murray RJ; Blume-Kohout R; Anand N; Dzurak AS; Jamieson DN; Scarani V; Morello A, 2024, Certifying the quantumness of a nuclear spin qudit through its uniform precession, http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07641v2
    Preprints | 2024
    Yu X; Wilhelm B; Holmes D; Vaartjes A; Schwienbacher D; Nurizzo M; Kringhøj A; Blankenstein MRV; Jakob AM; Gupta P; Hudson FE; Itoh KM; Murray RJ; Blume-Kohout R; Ladd TD; Anand N; Dzurak AS; Sanders BC; Jamieson DN; Morello A, 2024, Schrödinger cat states of a nuclear spin qudit in silicon, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02745-0

So far, I have worked on the coupling of Phosphorus donors via the exchange interaction. Coupling the donor atom to other donors or quantum dots will be a key aspect of the platform and the exchange interaction will likely play a key part. Right now, I switched focus on the Antimony donor as a platform for quantum information. In the future, I hope to combine the two subjects by exchange coupling two antimony donors.