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Electrical Interconnects for Silicon Spin Qubits

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2026-02-05 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

Scalable spin qubit devices will likely require long-range qubit interconnects. We propose to create such an interconnect with a resistive topgate. The topgate is positively biased, to form a channel between the two dots; an end-to-end voltage difference across the nanowire results in an electric field that propels the electron from source dot to target dot. The electron is momentum-incoherent, but not necessarily spin-incoherent; we evaluate threats to spin coherence due to spin-orbit coupling, valley physics, and nuclear spin impurities. We find that spin-orbit coupling is the dominant threat, but momentum-space motional narrowing due to frequent scattering partially protects the electron, resulting in characteristic decoherence lengths ~15 mm for plausible parameters.

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@article{arxiv.2411.01366,
  title  = {Electrical Interconnects for Silicon Spin Qubits},
  author = {Christopher David White and Anthony Sigillito and Michael J. Gullans},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.01366},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Accepted version (Phys. Rev. B.)

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