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A Degenerate Singlet-Triplet Qubit with All-Electrical Orthogonal Control

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2026-07-29 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

Singlet-triplet qubits offer an attractive encoding for semiconductor quantum computing, combining ancilla-free readout, reduced sensitivity to common-mode noise, and baseband voltage control. However, the Zeeman energy difference ΔEZ\Delta E_\mathrm{Z} is typically fixed by local magnetic field gradients or gg-factor inhomogeneities, leaving the exchange interaction JJ as the only dynamically tunable parameter. This always-on ΔEZ\Delta E_\mathrm{Z} precludes orthogonal control of the qubit's rotation axes and introduces unwanted state rotations during idling. Here we demonstrate all-electrical orthogonal control of a degenerate singlet-triplet (DST) qubit formed by two hole spins in a germanium double quantum dot. Exploiting the electrically tunable anisotropic gg-factors of the two spins, we identify a regime where both ΔEZ\Delta E_\mathrm{Z} and JJ vanish, making the SS and T0T_0 states degenerate at the idle point. By applying only baseband voltage pulses, we independently control both JJ and ΔEZ\Delta E_\mathrm{Z}, enabling fully orthogonal ZZ- and XX-axis rotations. Randomized benchmarking yields an average physical single-qubit gate fidelity of 99.53\% for a gate duration of approximately 100 ns. Finally, we electrically tune the degenerate point across a wide range of magnetic field orientations, enabling operation in a regime of enhanced coherence time and offering a route towards multi-qubit scaling under a shared global magnetic field.

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@article{arxiv.2607.27067,
  title  = {A Degenerate Singlet-Triplet Qubit with All-Electrical Orthogonal Control},
  author = {Phuong X. Nguyen and Konstantinos Tsoukalas and Jann H. Ungerer and Julian Santen and Valentin John and Stefan D. Oosterhout and Lucas Stehouwer and Stefano Bosco and Giordano Scappucci and Menno Veldhorst and Amir Yacoby},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.27067},
  year   = {2026}
}