High-Fidelity Entangling Gate for Double-Quantum-Dot Spin Qubits

Abstract

Electron spins in semiconductors are promising qubits because their long coherence times enable nearly 109 coherent quantum gate operations. However, developing a scalable high-fidelity two-qubit gate remains challenging. Here, we demonstrate an entangling gate between two double-quantum-dot spin qubits in GaAs by using a magnetic field gradient between the two dots in each qubit to suppress decoherence due to charge noise. When the magnetic gradient dominates the voltage-controlled exchange interaction between electrons, qubit coherence times increase by an order of magnitude. Using randomized benchmarking, we measure single-qubit gate fidelities of approximate 99%, and through self-consistent quantum measurement, state, and process tomography, we measure an entangling gate fidelity of 90%. In the future, operating double quantum dot spin qubits with large gradients in nuclear-spin-free materials, such as Si, should enable a two-qubit gate fidelity surpassing the threshold for fault-tolerant quantum information processing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 19, 2017
Accession Number
AD1082336

Entities

People

  • Amir Yacoby
  • Geoffrey C. Gardner
  • John M Nichol
  • Lucas A. Orona
  • Michael J Manfra
  • Saeed Fallahi
  • Shannon P Harvey

Organizations

  • Harvard University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Electric Fields
  • Electrons
  • Frequency
  • Information Processing
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Materials
  • Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  • Nuclear Spins
  • Quantum Bits
  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Dots
  • Quantum Information
  • Quantum Properties
  • Reliability
  • Semiconductors
  • Simulations
  • Spin-Orbit Interaction

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Quantum spin resonance or Electron Paramagnetic Resonance spectroscopy.
  • Semiconductor Device Technology

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Science - Quantum Dots