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Published on: June 3, 2015
Industry-compatible silicon spin-qubit unit cells exceeding 99% fidelity
Paul Steinacker1, Nard Dumoulin Stuyck2,3, Wee Han Lim4,5
1School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. p.steinacker@unsw.edu.au.
Abstract:
Among the many types of qubit presently being investigated for a future quantum computer, silicon spin qubits with millions of qubits on a single chip are uniquely positioned to enable quantum computing. However, it has not been clear whether the outstanding high-fidelity operations and long coherence times shown by silicon spin qubits fabricated in academic settings1-8 can be reliably reproduced when the qubits are manufactured in a semiconductor foundry9-11. Here we show precise qubit operation of silicon two-qubit devices made with standard semiconductor tooling in a 300-mm foundry environment. Of the key metrics, single- and two-qubit control fidelities exceed 99% for all four devices, and the state preparation and measurement fidelities reach up to 99.9%, as evidenced by gate set tomography. We report spin lifetime and coherence up to T1 = 9.5 s, and . We determine that residual nuclear spin-carrying isotopes contribute substantially to operational errors, identifying further isotopic purification as a clear pathway to even higher performance.
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