English
Related papers

Related papers: Long distance spin shuttling enabled by few-parame…

200 papers

As quantum computers scale toward millions of physical qubits, it becomes essential to robustly encode individual logical qubits to ensure fault tolerance under realistic noise. A high-quality foundational encoding allows future compilation…

Coherent spatial transport or shuttling of a single electron spin through semiconductor nanostructures is an important ingredient in many spintronic and quantum computing applications. In this work we analyze the possible errors in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Xiao Li , Edwin Barnes , Jason P. Kestner , S. Das Sarma

We present a method to optimize qubit control parameters during error detection which is compatible with large-scale qubit arrays. We demonstrate our method to optimize single or two-qubit gates in parallel on a nine-qubit system.…

Electron spins in Si/SiGe quantum wells suffer from nearly degenerate conduction band valleys, which compete with the spin degree of freedom in the formation of qubits. Despite attempts to enhance the valley energy splitting…

Shuttling spins with high fidelity is a key requirement to scale up semiconducting quantum computers, enabling qubit entanglement over large distances and favoring the integration of control electronics on-chip. To decouple the spin from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 Stefano Bosco , Ji Zou , Daniel Loss

One of the main advantages of silicon spin qubits over other solid-state qubits is their inherent scalability and compatibility with the 300 mm CMOS fabrication technology that is already widely used in the semiconductor industry, whilst…

By utilizing the site-dependent spin quantization axis in semiconductor quantum dot (QD) arrays, shuttling-based spin qubit gates have become an appealing approach to realize scalable quantum computing due to the circumvention of using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Zhi-Hai Liu , Xiao-Fei Liu , H. Q. Xu

Silicon-based metal-oxide-semiconductor quantum dots are prominent candidates for high-fidelity, manufacturable qubits. Due to silicon's band structure, additional low-energy states persist in these devices, presenting both challenges and…

Significant advances have been made towards fault-tolerant operation of silicon spin qubits, with single qubit fidelities exceeding 99.9%, several demonstrations of two-qubit gates based on exchange coupling, and the achievement of coherent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-15 A. R. Mills , D. M. Zajac , M. J. Gullans , F. J. Schupp , T. M. Hazard , J. R. Petta

Spin and valley-orbit splittings are calculated in SiGe/Si/SiGe quantum wells (QWs) by using the tight-binding approach. In accordance with the symmetry considerations an existence of spin splitting of electronic states in perfect QWs with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-07 M. O. Nestoklon , L. E. Golub , E. L. Ivchenko

One of the key pathways towards scalability of spin-based quantum computing systems lies in achieving long-range interactions between electrons and increasing their inter-connectivity. Coherent spin transport is one of the most promising…

We present a fault-tolerant mapping of rotated surface codes onto a $2\times N$ silicon spin-qubit railway architecture, utilizing electron shuttling to resolve the wiring fan-out bottleneck. Employing circuit-level noise modeling, we…

Quantum dots in SiGe/Si/SiGe heterostructures host coherent electron spin qubits, which are promising for future quantum computers. The silicon quantum well hosts near-degenerate electron valley states, creating a low-lying excited state…

We fabricated Quantum Dot (QD) devices using a standard SOI CMOS process flow, and demonstrated that the spin of confined electrons could be controlled via a local electrical-field excitation, owing to inter-valley spin-orbit coupling. We…

The presence of low-energy valley excitations in Si/SiGe heterostructures often causes spin qubits to fail. It is therefore important to develop robust protocols for characterizing the valley coupling. Here, we show that realistically sized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Benjamin D. Woods , Merritt P. Losert , Nasir R. Elston , M. A. Eriksson , S. N. Coppersmith , Robert Joynt , Mark Friesen

Shuttling of spin qubits between different locations is a key element in many prospective semiconductor systems for quantum information processing, but the shuttled qubits should be protected from decoherence created by time- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Yu-Ning Zhang , Aleksandr S. Mokeev , Viatcheslav V. Dobrovitski

Electronic spins in Silicon (Si) are rising contenders for qubits -- the logical unit of quantum computation-- owing to its outstanding spin coherence properties and compatibility to standard electronics. A remarkable limitation for spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Lijun Zhang , Jun-Wei Luo , A. L. Saraiva , Belita Koiller , Alex Zunger

Although silicon is a promising material for quantum computation, the degeneracy of the conduction band minima (valleys) must be lifted with a splitting sufficient to ensure formation of well-defined and long-lived spin qubits. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-01 C. H. Yang , A. Rossi , R. Ruskov , N. S. Lai , F. A. Mohiyaddin , S. Lee , C. Tahan , G. Klimeck , A. Morello , A. S. Dzurak

Electron spins in silicon quantum dots are excellent qubits because they have long coherence times, high gate fidelities, and are compatible with advanced semiconductor manufacturing techniques. The valley degree of freedom, which results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-27 Xinxin Cai , Elliot J. Connors , John M. Nichol

Spins of electrons in CMOS quantum dots combine exquisite quantum properties and scalable fabrication. In the age of quantum technology, however, the metrics that crowned Si/SiO2 as the microelectronics standard need to be reassessed with…