Minimal evolution times for fast, pulse-based state preparation in silicon spin qubits

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Main Authors: Long, Christopher K., Mayhall, Nicholas J., Economou, Sophia E., Barnes, Edwin, Barnes, Crispin H. W., Martins, Frederico, Arvidsson-Shukur, David R. M., Mertig, Normann
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author Long, Christopher K.
Mayhall, Nicholas J.
Economou, Sophia E.
Barnes, Edwin
Barnes, Crispin H. W.
Martins, Frederico
Arvidsson-Shukur, David R. M.
Mertig, Normann
author_facet Long, Christopher K.
Mayhall, Nicholas J.
Economou, Sophia E.
Barnes, Edwin
Barnes, Crispin H. W.
Martins, Frederico
Arvidsson-Shukur, David R. M.
Mertig, Normann
contents Standing as one of the most significant barriers to reaching quantum advantage, state-preparation fidelities on noisy intermediate-scale quantum processors suffer from quantum-gate errors, which accumulate over time. A potential remedy is pulse-based state preparation. We numerically investigate the minimal evolution times (METs) attainable by optimizing (microwave and exchange) pulses on silicon hardware. We investigate two state preparation tasks. First, we consider the preparation of molecular ground states and find the METs for H$_2$, HeH$^+$, and LiH to be 2.4 ns, 4.4 ns, and 27.2 ns, respectively. Second, we consider transitions between arbitrary states and find the METs for transitions between arbitrary four-qubit states to be below 50 ns. For comparison, connecting arbitrary two-qubit states via one- and two-qubit gates on the same silicon processor requires approximately 200 ns. This comparison indicates that pulse-based state preparation is likely to utilize the coherence times of silicon hardware more efficiently than gate-based state preparation. Finally, we quantify the effect of silicon device parameters on the MET. We show that increasing the maximal exchange amplitude from 10 MHz to 1 GHz accelerates the METs, e.g., for H$_2$ from 84.3 ns to 2.4 ns. This demonstrates the importance of fast exchange. We also show that increasing the maximal amplitude of the microwave drive from 884 kHz to 56.6 MHz shortens state transitions, e.g., for two-qubit states from 1000 ns to 25 ns. Our results bound both the state-preparation times for general quantum algorithms and the execution times of variational quantum algorithms with silicon spin qubits.
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spellingShingle Minimal evolution times for fast, pulse-based state preparation in silicon spin qubits
Long, Christopher K.
Mayhall, Nicholas J.
Economou, Sophia E.
Barnes, Edwin
Barnes, Crispin H. W.
Martins, Frederico
Arvidsson-Shukur, David R. M.
Mertig, Normann
Quantum Physics
Standing as one of the most significant barriers to reaching quantum advantage, state-preparation fidelities on noisy intermediate-scale quantum processors suffer from quantum-gate errors, which accumulate over time. A potential remedy is pulse-based state preparation. We numerically investigate the minimal evolution times (METs) attainable by optimizing (microwave and exchange) pulses on silicon hardware. We investigate two state preparation tasks. First, we consider the preparation of molecular ground states and find the METs for H$_2$, HeH$^+$, and LiH to be 2.4 ns, 4.4 ns, and 27.2 ns, respectively. Second, we consider transitions between arbitrary states and find the METs for transitions between arbitrary four-qubit states to be below 50 ns. For comparison, connecting arbitrary two-qubit states via one- and two-qubit gates on the same silicon processor requires approximately 200 ns. This comparison indicates that pulse-based state preparation is likely to utilize the coherence times of silicon hardware more efficiently than gate-based state preparation. Finally, we quantify the effect of silicon device parameters on the MET. We show that increasing the maximal exchange amplitude from 10 MHz to 1 GHz accelerates the METs, e.g., for H$_2$ from 84.3 ns to 2.4 ns. This demonstrates the importance of fast exchange. We also show that increasing the maximal amplitude of the microwave drive from 884 kHz to 56.6 MHz shortens state transitions, e.g., for two-qubit states from 1000 ns to 25 ns. Our results bound both the state-preparation times for general quantum algorithms and the execution times of variational quantum algorithms with silicon spin qubits.
title Minimal evolution times for fast, pulse-based state preparation in silicon spin qubits
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10913