Blueprint of a Scalable Spin Qubit Shuttle Device for Coherent Mid-Range Qubit Transfer in Disordered Si/SiGe/SiO_{2}

Silicon spin qubits stand out due to their very long coherence times, compatibility with industrial fabrication, and prospect to integrate classical control electronics. To achieve a truly scalable architecture, a coherent mid-range link that moves the electrons between qubit registers has been sugg...

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Main Authors: Veit Langrock, Jan A. Krzywda, Niels Focke, Inga Seidler, Lars R. Schreiber, Łukasz Cywiński
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Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2023-04-01
Series:PRX Quantum
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PRXQuantum.4.020305
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author Veit Langrock
Jan A. Krzywda
Niels Focke
Inga Seidler
Lars R. Schreiber
Łukasz Cywiński
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Niels Focke
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description Silicon spin qubits stand out due to their very long coherence times, compatibility with industrial fabrication, and prospect to integrate classical control electronics. To achieve a truly scalable architecture, a coherent mid-range link that moves the electrons between qubit registers has been suggested to solve the signal fan-out problem. Here, we present a blueprint of such a link of 10 μm length, called a spin qubit shuttle, which is based on connecting an array of gates into a small number of sets. To control these sets, only a few voltage control lines are needed and the number of these sets and thus the number of required control signals is independent of the length of this link. We discuss two different operation modes for the spin qubit shuttle: a qubit conveyor, i.e., a potential minimum that smoothly moves laterally, and a bucket brigade, in which the electron is transported through a series of tunnel-coupled quantum dots by adiabatic passage. We find the former approach more promising considering a realistic Si/SiGe device, including potential disorder from the charged defects at the Si/SiO_{2} layer, as well as typical charge noise. Focusing on the qubit transfer fidelity in the conveyor shuttling mode, we discuss in detail motional narrowing, the interplay between orbital and valley excitation and relaxation in the presence of g factors that depend on orbital and valley state of the electron, and effects from spin hotspots. We find that a transfer fidelity of 99.9% is feasible in Si/SiGe at a speed of approximately 10m/s, if the average valley splitting and its inhomogeneity stay within realistic bounds. Operation at low global magnetic field approximately equal to 20mT and material engineering towards high valley splitting is favorable for reaching high fidelities of transfer.
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spelling doaj.art-302600efbfdd4cb19634930b7f0dd8642023-04-11T15:14:59ZengAmerican Physical SocietyPRX Quantum2691-33992023-04-014202030510.1103/PRXQuantum.4.020305Blueprint of a Scalable Spin Qubit Shuttle Device for Coherent Mid-Range Qubit Transfer in Disordered Si/SiGe/SiO_{2}Veit LangrockJan A. KrzywdaNiels FockeInga SeidlerLars R. SchreiberŁukasz CywińskiSilicon spin qubits stand out due to their very long coherence times, compatibility with industrial fabrication, and prospect to integrate classical control electronics. To achieve a truly scalable architecture, a coherent mid-range link that moves the electrons between qubit registers has been suggested to solve the signal fan-out problem. Here, we present a blueprint of such a link of 10 μm length, called a spin qubit shuttle, which is based on connecting an array of gates into a small number of sets. To control these sets, only a few voltage control lines are needed and the number of these sets and thus the number of required control signals is independent of the length of this link. We discuss two different operation modes for the spin qubit shuttle: a qubit conveyor, i.e., a potential minimum that smoothly moves laterally, and a bucket brigade, in which the electron is transported through a series of tunnel-coupled quantum dots by adiabatic passage. We find the former approach more promising considering a realistic Si/SiGe device, including potential disorder from the charged defects at the Si/SiO_{2} layer, as well as typical charge noise. Focusing on the qubit transfer fidelity in the conveyor shuttling mode, we discuss in detail motional narrowing, the interplay between orbital and valley excitation and relaxation in the presence of g factors that depend on orbital and valley state of the electron, and effects from spin hotspots. We find that a transfer fidelity of 99.9% is feasible in Si/SiGe at a speed of approximately 10m/s, if the average valley splitting and its inhomogeneity stay within realistic bounds. Operation at low global magnetic field approximately equal to 20mT and material engineering towards high valley splitting is favorable for reaching high fidelities of transfer.http://doi.org/10.1103/PRXQuantum.4.020305
spellingShingle Veit Langrock
Jan A. Krzywda
Niels Focke
Inga Seidler
Lars R. Schreiber
Łukasz Cywiński
Blueprint of a Scalable Spin Qubit Shuttle Device for Coherent Mid-Range Qubit Transfer in Disordered Si/SiGe/SiO_{2}
PRX Quantum
title Blueprint of a Scalable Spin Qubit Shuttle Device for Coherent Mid-Range Qubit Transfer in Disordered Si/SiGe/SiO_{2}
title_full Blueprint of a Scalable Spin Qubit Shuttle Device for Coherent Mid-Range Qubit Transfer in Disordered Si/SiGe/SiO_{2}
title_fullStr Blueprint of a Scalable Spin Qubit Shuttle Device for Coherent Mid-Range Qubit Transfer in Disordered Si/SiGe/SiO_{2}
title_full_unstemmed Blueprint of a Scalable Spin Qubit Shuttle Device for Coherent Mid-Range Qubit Transfer in Disordered Si/SiGe/SiO_{2}
title_short Blueprint of a Scalable Spin Qubit Shuttle Device for Coherent Mid-Range Qubit Transfer in Disordered Si/SiGe/SiO_{2}
title_sort blueprint of a scalable spin qubit shuttle device for coherent mid range qubit transfer in disordered si sige sio 2
url http://doi.org/10.1103/PRXQuantum.4.020305
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