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Nanoscale stray fields from micromagnets for optimal spin qubit architecture

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2026-07-16 v1

Abstract

On-chip micromagnets generate local magnetic-field asymmetries, enabling electrical control of spin qubits via electric dipole spin resonance and their integration into circuit quantum electrodynamics (QED) architectures. Accurate prediction of spin-qubit performance requires modeling micromagnet stray fields beyond the saturated-magnet approximation, accounting for nonuniform magnetization. Here, we combine thin-film characterization of Co, Co/Ta multilayers, and CoFe films with nanoscale stray-field measurements using NV-center magnetometry in the unsaturated regime to establish a reliable micromagnetic simulation framework. We show that CoFe micromagnets generate antisymmetric fields in double quantum-dot geometries exceeding +/- 100mT, owing to their high saturation magnetization and favorable magnetocrystalline anisotropy. For spin qubits coupled to microwave resonators, the predicted spin-photon coupling reaches gs/gc0.5\left| g_s/g_c \right| \approx 0.5, where gcg_c denotes the charge-photon coupling strength of the underlying charge qubit, highlighting the potential for high-fidelity operations in circuit QED architectures.

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@article{arxiv.2607.15333,
  title  = {Nanoscale stray fields from micromagnets for optimal spin qubit architecture},
  author = {Sandrine Lopes and Quentin Schaeverbeke and Matthieu M. Desjardins and Daniel Lacour and Michel Hehn and François Montaigne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.15333},
  year   = {2026}
}

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16 pages, 5 figures