Combining highly coherent spin control with efficient light-matter coupling offers great opportunities for quantum communication and networks, as well as quantum computing. Optically active semiconductor quantum dots have unparalleled photonic properties, but also modest spin coherence limited by their resident nuclei. Here, we demonstrate that eliminating strain inhomogeneity using lattice-matched GaAs-AlGaAs quantum dot devices prolongs the electron spin coherence by nearly two orders of magnitude, beyond 0.113(3) ms. To do this, we leverage the 99.30(5)% fidelity of our optical pi-pulse gates to implement dynamical decoupling. We vary the number of decoupling pulses up to N = 81 and find a coherence time scaling of N^{0.75(2)}. This scaling manifests an ideal refocusing of strong interactions between the electron and the nuclear-spin ensemble, holding the promise of lifetime-limited spin coherence. Our findings demonstrate that the most punishing material science challenge for such quantum-dot devices has a remedy, and constitute the basis for highly coherent spin-photon interfaces.
@article{arxiv.2206.01223,
title = {Ideal refocusing of an optically active spin qubit under strong hyperfine interactions},
author = {Leon Zaporski and Noah Shofer and Jonathan H. Bodey and Santanu Manna and George Gillard and Daniel M. Jackson and Martin Hayhurst Appel and Christian Schimpf and Saimon Covre da Silva and John Jarman and Geoffroy Delamare and Gunhee Park and Urs Haeusler and Evgeny A. Chekhovich and Armando Rastelli and Dorian A. Gangloff and Mete Atatüre and Claire Le Gall},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.01223},
year = {2023}
}