English

Individual solid-state nuclear spin qubits with coherence exceeding seconds

Quantum Physics 2024-11-28 v2

Abstract

The ability to coherently control and read out qubits with long coherence times in a scalable system is a crucial requirement for any quantum processor. Nuclear spins in the solid state have shown great promise as long-lived qubits. Control and readout of individual nuclear spin qubit registers has made major progress in the recent years using individual electron spin ancilla addressed either electrically or optically. Here, we present a new platform for quantum information processing, consisting of 183^{183}W nuclear spin qubits adjacent to an Er3+^{3+} impurity in a CaWO4_4 crystal, interfaced via a superconducting resonator and detected using a microwave photon counter at 10mK. We study two nuclear spin qubits with T2T_2^* of 0.8(2) 0.8(2)~s and 1.2(3) 1.2(3)~s, T2T_2 of 3.4(4) 3.4(4)~s and 4.4(6) 4.4(6)~ s, respectively. We demonstrate single-shot quantum non-demolition readout of each nuclear spin qubit using the Er3+^{3+} spin as an ancilla. We introduce a new scheme for all-microwave single- and two-qubit gates, based on stimulated Raman driving of the coupled electron-nuclear spin system. We realize single- and two-qubit gates on a timescale of a few milliseconds, and prepare a decoherence-protected Bell state with 88% fidelity and T2T_2^* of 1.7(2) 1.7(2)~s. Our results are a proof-of-principle demonstrating the potential of solid-state nuclear spin qubits as a promising platform for quantum information processing. With the potential to scale to tens or hundreds of qubits, this platform has prospects for the development of scalable quantum processors with long-lived qubits.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2410.10432,
  title  = {Individual solid-state nuclear spin qubits with coherence exceeding seconds},
  author = {James O'Sullivan and Jaime Travesedo and Louis Pallegoix and Zhiyuan W. Huang and Alexande May and Boris Yavkin and Patrick Hogan and Sen Lin and Renbao Liu and Thierry Chaneliere and Sylvain Bertaina and Philippe Goldner and Daniel Esteve and Denis Vion and Patrick Abgrall and Patrice Bertet and Emmanuel Flurin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.10432},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

14 pages, 4 main figures, 7 supplementary figures

R2 v1 2026-06-28T19:20:29.165Z