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Low-frequency spin qubit detuning noise in highly purified $^{28}$Si/SiGe

Quantum Physics 2020-06-30 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

The manipulation fidelity of a single electron qubit gate-confined in a 28^{28}Si/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 29^{29}Si concentration of only 60\,ppm in the strained 28^{28}Si quantum well layer and a spin echo decay time T2echo=128μT_2^{\text{echo}}=128\,\mus. The power spectral density (PSD) of the charge noise explains both the observed transition of a 1/f21/f^2- to a 1/f1/f-dependence of the detuning noise PSD as well as the observation of a decreasing time-ensemble spin dephasing time from T220μT_2^* \approx 20\,\mus with increasing measurement time over several hours. Despite their strong hyperfine contact interaction, the few 73^{73}Ge nuclei overlapping with the quantum dot in the barrier do not limit T2T_2^*, 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.

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@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}
}