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Tracking spin qubit frequency variations over 912 days

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2025-09-26 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

Solid-state qubits are sensitive to their microscopic environment, causing the qubit properties to fluctuate on a wide range of timescales. The sub-Hz end of the spectrum is usually dealt with by repeated background calibrations, which bring considerable overhead. It is thus important to characterize and understand the low-frequency variations of the relevant qubit characteristics. In this study, we investigate the stability of spin qubit frequencies in the Si/SiGe quantum dot platform. We find that the calibrated qubit frequencies of a six-qubit device vary by up to ±100\pm 100 MHz while performing a variety of experiments over a span of 912 days. These variations are sensitive to the precise voltage settings of the gate electrodes, however when these are kept constant to within 15 μ\mathrm{\mu}V, the qubit frequencies vary by less than ±7\pm 7 MHz over periods up to 36 days. During overnight scans, the qubit frequencies of ten qubits across two different devices show a standard deviation below 200 kHz within a 1-hour time window. The qubit frequency noise spectral density shows roughly a 1/f1/f trend above 10410^{-4} Hz and, strikingly, a steeper trend at even lower frequencies.

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@article{arxiv.2509.20990,
  title  = {Tracking spin qubit frequency variations over 912 days},
  author = {Kenji Capannelli and Brennan Undseth and Irene Fernández de Fuentes and Eline Raymenants and Florian K. Unseld and Oriol Pietx-Casas and Stephan G. J. Philips and Mateusz T. Mądzik and Sergey V. Amitonov and Larysa Tryputen and Giordano Scappucci and Lieven M. K. Vandersypen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.20990},
  year   = {2025}
}

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32 pages (13 for main text and 19 for supplementary) and 27 figures (8 for main and 19 for supplementary)

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