Fast spin-valley-based quantum gates in Si with micromagnets

Abstract An electron spin qubit in silicon quantum dots holds promise for quantum information processing due to the scalability and long coherence. An essential ingredient to recent progress is the employment of micromagnets. They generate a synthetic spin–orbit coupling (SOC), which allows high-fid...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Peihao Huang, Xuedong Hu
Formato: article
Lenguaje:EN
Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2021
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/8daf73c3151f4dab9ce5c4edbe20603e
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!
id oai:doaj.org-article:8daf73c3151f4dab9ce5c4edbe20603e
record_format dspace
spelling oai:doaj.org-article:8daf73c3151f4dab9ce5c4edbe20603e2021-11-21T12:13:59ZFast spin-valley-based quantum gates in Si with micromagnets10.1038/s41534-021-00500-42056-6387https://doaj.org/article/8daf73c3151f4dab9ce5c4edbe20603e2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-021-00500-4https://doaj.org/toc/2056-6387Abstract An electron spin qubit in silicon quantum dots holds promise for quantum information processing due to the scalability and long coherence. An essential ingredient to recent progress is the employment of micromagnets. They generate a synthetic spin–orbit coupling (SOC), which allows high-fidelity spin manipulation and strong interaction between an electron spin and cavity photons. To scaled-up quantum computing, multiple technical challenges remain to be overcome, including controlling the valley degree of freedom, which is usually considered detrimental to a spin qubit. Here, we show that it is possible to significantly enhance the electrical manipulation of a spin qubit through the effect of constructive interference and the large spin-valley mixing. To characterize the quality of spin control, we also studied spin dephasing due to charge noise through spin-valley mixing. The competition between the increased control strength and spin dephasing produces two sweet-spots, where the quality factor of the spin qubit can be high. Finally, we reveal that the synthetic SOC leads to distinctive spin relaxation in silicon, which explains recent experiments.Peihao HuangXuedong HuNature PortfolioarticlePhysicsQC1-999Electronic computers. Computer scienceQA75.5-76.95ENnpj Quantum Information, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic Physics
QC1-999
Electronic computers. Computer science
QA75.5-76.95
spellingShingle Physics
QC1-999
Electronic computers. Computer science
QA75.5-76.95
Peihao Huang
Xuedong Hu
Fast spin-valley-based quantum gates in Si with micromagnets
description Abstract An electron spin qubit in silicon quantum dots holds promise for quantum information processing due to the scalability and long coherence. An essential ingredient to recent progress is the employment of micromagnets. They generate a synthetic spin–orbit coupling (SOC), which allows high-fidelity spin manipulation and strong interaction between an electron spin and cavity photons. To scaled-up quantum computing, multiple technical challenges remain to be overcome, including controlling the valley degree of freedom, which is usually considered detrimental to a spin qubit. Here, we show that it is possible to significantly enhance the electrical manipulation of a spin qubit through the effect of constructive interference and the large spin-valley mixing. To characterize the quality of spin control, we also studied spin dephasing due to charge noise through spin-valley mixing. The competition between the increased control strength and spin dephasing produces two sweet-spots, where the quality factor of the spin qubit can be high. Finally, we reveal that the synthetic SOC leads to distinctive spin relaxation in silicon, which explains recent experiments.
format article
author Peihao Huang
Xuedong Hu
author_facet Peihao Huang
Xuedong Hu
author_sort Peihao Huang
title Fast spin-valley-based quantum gates in Si with micromagnets
title_short Fast spin-valley-based quantum gates in Si with micromagnets
title_full Fast spin-valley-based quantum gates in Si with micromagnets
title_fullStr Fast spin-valley-based quantum gates in Si with micromagnets
title_full_unstemmed Fast spin-valley-based quantum gates in Si with micromagnets
title_sort fast spin-valley-based quantum gates in si with micromagnets
publisher Nature Portfolio
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/8daf73c3151f4dab9ce5c4edbe20603e
work_keys_str_mv AT peihaohuang fastspinvalleybasedquantumgatesinsiwithmicromagnets
AT xuedonghu fastspinvalleybasedquantumgatesinsiwithmicromagnets
_version_ 1718419136955023360