The manipulation fidelity of a single electron qubit gate-confined in a 28Si/SiGe quantum dot has recently been drastically improved by nuclear isotope purification. Here, we identify the dominant source for low-frequency qubit detuning noise in a device with an embedded nanomagnet, a remaining 29Si concentration of only 60ppm in the strained 28Si quantum well layer and a spin echo decay time T2echo=128μs. The power spectral density (PSD) of the charge noise explains both the observed transition of a 1/f2- to a 1/f-dependence of the detuning noise PSD as well as the observation of a decreasing time-ensemble spin dephasing time from T2∗≈20μs with increasing measurement time over several hours. Despite their strong hyperfine contact interaction, the few 73Ge nuclei overlapping with the quantum dot in the barrier do not limit T2∗, as their dynamics is frozen on a few hours measurement scale. We conclude that charge noise and the design of the gradient magnetic field is the key to further improve the qubit fidelity.
@article{arxiv.1909.11397,
title = {Low-frequency spin qubit detuning noise in highly purified $^{28}$Si/SiGe},
author = {Tom Struck and Arne Hollmann and Floyd Schauer and Olexiy Fedorets and Andreas Schmidbauer and Kentarou Sawano and Helge Riemann and Nikolay V. Abrosimov and Łukasz Cywiński and Dominique Bougeard and Lars R. Schreiber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.11397},
year = {2020}
}