Here, we've collected a set of papers that have either been published by G4CMP-adjacent groups or which are relevant to the physics involved in G4CMP. If any are missing, please add them! Note: not currently organized by year.

Physics Sub-TopicPaper NameAuthorTopicLink
G4CMP Papers




G4CMP: Condensed matter physics simulation using the Geant4 toolkitKelsey et al.G4CMP Initial Paperhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900223004631
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05998

Modeling Athermal Phonons in Novel Materials using the G4CMP Simulation ToolkitHernandez et al.Expanding Phonon Transport in New Materialshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900224010982
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04732
Quanta Transport (General)




Spontaneous decay rates of LA phonons in quasi-isotropic solidsTamura et al.Anharmonic Phonon Decayhttps://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.31.2574

Lattice dynamics and elastic phonon scattering in silicon

Tamura et al.Phonon Transport

https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.44.3001


Quasiparticle and phonon lifetimes in superconductorsKaplan et al.

Quasiparticle dynamics


https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.14.4854

Spatial imaging of charge transport in silicon at low temperatureMoffat et al.Charge transport in semiconductorshttps://pubs.aip.org/aip/apl/article/114/3/032104/36742/Spatial-imaging-of-charge-transport-in-silicon-at

Electron effective mobility in strained-Si/Si1−xGex MOS devices using Monte Carlo simulation

Aubry-Fortuna et al.Charge transport in semiconductorshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038110105001747?via%3Dihub

The Monte Carlo method for the solution of charge transport
in semiconductors with applications to covalent materials

C. Jacoboni and L. ReggianiCharge transport in semiconductorshttps://journals.aps.org/rmp/pdf/10.1103/RevModPhys.55.645
SuperCDMS













Superconducting Qubits




A quantum engineer's guide to superconducting qubitsKrantz et al.Superconducting qubits overview

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/apr/article/6/2/021318/570326/A-quantum-engineer-s-guide-to-superconducting


Excitation of Superconducting Qubits from Hot Nonequilibrium QuasiparticlesWenner et al.Superconducting qubits x quasiparticles

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.150502


Phonon downconversion to suppress correlated errors in superconducting qubitsIaia et al.Superconducting qubits x phonons and quasiparticles

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-33997-0


Modeling phonon-mediated quasiparticle poisoning in superconducting qubit arraysYelton et al.G4CMP, phonons, superconducting qubits, and quasiparticles

https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.110.024519


Correlated quasiparticle poisoning from phonon-only events in superconducting qubitsYelton et al.Stress-produced phonon bursts, superconducting qubits, quasiparticles, charge bursts

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09554


Correlated charge noise and relaxation errors in superconducting qubitsWilen. et al.Charge bursts, charge trapping, G4CMP, superconducting qubits

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03557-5


Synchronous detection of cosmic rays and correlated errors in superconducting qubit arraysHarrington et al.Phonons, superconducting qubits, cosmic rays, ionizing radiation, quasiparticles

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61385-x


Resolving catastrophic error bursts from cosmic rays in large arrays of superconducting qubitsMcEwen et al.Phonons, ionizing radiation, recycled phonons, thermalization, quasiparticles, superconducting qubits

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-021-01432-8


Two-Level-System Dynamics in a Superconducting Qubit Due to Background Ionizing RadiationThorbeck et al.Ionizing radiation, TLSs (two-level systems), superconducting qubits

https://journals.aps.org/prxquantum/abstract/10.1103/PRXQuantum.4.020356


First Measurement of Correlated Charge Noise in Superconducting Qubits at an Underground FacilityBratrud et al.Ionizing radiation, low-background environments, charge jumps, superconducting qubits

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04642


Characterizing Quantum Error Correction Performance of Radiation-induced ErrorsBaity et al.Radiation footprints, quantum error correction, ML techniques

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.06202

Semiconductor Spin Qubits




Semiconductor Spin QubitsBurkard et al.Review

https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.95.025003





















Surface Phonons



Steve Leman's Review

Aubrey-Fontana (sp?)

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