Precision tomography of a three-qubit donor quantum processor in silicon

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  • Mateusz T. Mądzik
  • Asaad, Serwan
  • Akram Youssry
  • Benjamin Joecker
  • Kenneth M. Rudinger
  • Erik Nielsen
  • Kevin C. Young
  • Timothy J. Proctor
  • Andrew D. Baczewski
  • Arne Laucht
  • Vivien Schmitt
  • Fay E. Hudson
  • Kohei M. Itoh
  • Alexander M. Jakob
  • Brett C. Johnson
  • David N. Jamieson
  • Andrew S. Dzurak
  • Christopher Ferrie
  • Robin Blume-Kohout
  • Andrea Morello

Nuclear spins were among the first physical platforms to be considered for quantum information processing1,2, because of their exceptional quantum coherence3 and atomic-scale footprint. However, their full potential for quantum computing has not yet been realized, owing to the lack of methods with which to link nuclear qubits within a scalable device combined with multi-qubit operations with sufficient fidelity to sustain fault-tolerant quantum computation. Here we demonstrate universal quantum logic operations using a pair of ion-implanted 31P donor nuclei in a silicon nanoelectronic device. A nuclear two-qubit controlled-Z gate is obtained by imparting a geometric phase to a shared electron spin4, and used to prepare entangled Bell states with fidelities up to 94.2(2.7)%. The quantum operations are precisely characterized using gate set tomography (GST)5, yielding one-qubit average gate fidelities up to 99.95(2)%, two-qubit average gate fidelity of 99.37(11)% and two-qubit preparation/measurement fidelities of 98.95(4)%. These three metrics indicate that nuclear spins in silicon are approaching the performance demanded in fault-tolerant quantum processors6. We then demonstrate entanglement between the two nuclei and the shared electron by producing a Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger three-qubit state with 92.5(1.0)% fidelity. Because electron spin qubits in semiconductors can be further coupled to other electrons7–9 or physically shuttled across different locations10,11, these results establish a viable route for scalable quantum information processing using donor nuclear and electron spins.

Original languageEnglish
JournalNature
Volume601
Issue number7893
Pages (from-to)348-353
Number of pages6
ISSN0028-0836
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Jan 2022

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