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Valley-Aware Optimal Control of Spin Shuttling Using Cryogenic Integrated Electronics

Quantum Physics 2026-04-23 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

Electron shuttling is emerging as a key mechanism for enabling long-range coupling in scalable spin-qubit architectures. Bringing shuttling waveform generation into the cryostat can improve scalability, but imposes strict area and power constraints on the control electronics. Concurrently, shuttling in Si/SiGe is further limited by a spatially varying valley splitting that induces spin--valley mixing and degrades coherence. Here, we make three contributions that address these limitations jointly: (i) an end-to-end co-simulation framework that combines disorder-informed valley maps with transistor-level cryogenic circuit simulations including electronic noise; (ii) a fully integrated cryogenic shuttling-signal generator tailored to velocity modulation, enabling period-wise waveform shaping through discrete circuit settings stored in on-chip memory; and (iii) a noise-aware optimization procedure that tunes only these implementable circuit controls, using one of four discrete resistor settings per period, to generate high-fidelity shuttling sequences. Across simulated valley and noise realizations in our co-simulation framework, the optimized velocity-modulation waveforms improve transport performance, achieving an average shuttling fidelity of 99.99±0.007%99.99 \pm 0.007\% at vavg=20 ms1v_{\mathrm{avg}} = 20~\mathrm{m\,s^{-1}} over a distance of 10 μm10~\mu\mathrm{m}, while maintaining active analog power consumption in the tens of μW\mu\mathrm{W} during shuttling. This validates on-chip storage and replay of optimized control settings as a practical strategy to mitigate valley disorder in scalable shuttling architectures.

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@article{arxiv.2604.20482,
  title  = {Valley-Aware Optimal Control of Spin Shuttling Using Cryogenic Integrated Electronics},
  author = {Pau Dietz Romero and Nermine Chaabani and Lammert Duipmans and Alessandro David and Felix Motzoi and Stefan van Waasen and Lotte Geck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.20482},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

16 pages, 11 figures (3 PNGs, 7 PDFs and 1 diagram made with tikzpicture in TEX), The paper will be submitted to the journal Quantum Science and Technologies

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