A manufacturable surface code architecture for spin qubits with fast transversal logic

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Autori principali: Chadwick, Jason D., Yang, Willers, Viszlai, Joshua, Chong, Frederic T.
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Chadwick, Jason D.
Yang, Willers
Viszlai, Joshua
Chong, Frederic T.
author_facet Chadwick, Jason D.
Yang, Willers
Viszlai, Joshua
Chong, Frederic T.
contents Spin qubits in silicon quantum dot arrays are a promising quantum computation platform for long-term scalability due to their small qubit footprint and compatibility with advanced semiconductor manufacturing. However, spin qubit devices face a key architectural bottleneck: the large physical footprint of readout components relative to qubits prevents a dense layout where all qubits can be measured simultaneously, complicating the implementation of quantum error correction. This challenge is offset by the platform's unique rapid shuttling capability, which can be used to transport qubits to distant readout ports. In this work, we explore the design constraints and capabilities of spin qubits in silicon and propose the SNAQ (Shuttling-capable Narrow Array of spin Qubits) surface code architecture, which relaxes the 1:1 readout-to-qubit assumption by leveraging spin shuttling to time-multiplex ancilla qubit initialization and readout. Our analysis shows that, given sufficiently high (experimentally demonstrated) qubit coherence times, SNAQ delivers an orders-of-magnitude reduction in chip area per logical qubit. Additionally, by using a denser grid of physical qubits, SNAQ enables fast transversal logic for short-distance logical operations, achieving over 10x improvement in local logical clock speed while still supporting global operations via lattice surgery. This translates to a 3.2-5.7x improvement in key Adder and Lookup fault-tolerant subroutines. Our work pinpoints critical hardware metrics and provides a compelling path toward high-performance fault-tolerant computation on near-term-manufacturable spin qubit arrays.
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spellingShingle A manufacturable surface code architecture for spin qubits with fast transversal logic
Chadwick, Jason D.
Yang, Willers
Viszlai, Joshua
Chong, Frederic T.
Quantum Physics
Spin qubits in silicon quantum dot arrays are a promising quantum computation platform for long-term scalability due to their small qubit footprint and compatibility with advanced semiconductor manufacturing. However, spin qubit devices face a key architectural bottleneck: the large physical footprint of readout components relative to qubits prevents a dense layout where all qubits can be measured simultaneously, complicating the implementation of quantum error correction. This challenge is offset by the platform's unique rapid shuttling capability, which can be used to transport qubits to distant readout ports. In this work, we explore the design constraints and capabilities of spin qubits in silicon and propose the SNAQ (Shuttling-capable Narrow Array of spin Qubits) surface code architecture, which relaxes the 1:1 readout-to-qubit assumption by leveraging spin shuttling to time-multiplex ancilla qubit initialization and readout. Our analysis shows that, given sufficiently high (experimentally demonstrated) qubit coherence times, SNAQ delivers an orders-of-magnitude reduction in chip area per logical qubit. Additionally, by using a denser grid of physical qubits, SNAQ enables fast transversal logic for short-distance logical operations, achieving over 10x improvement in local logical clock speed while still supporting global operations via lattice surgery. This translates to a 3.2-5.7x improvement in key Adder and Lookup fault-tolerant subroutines. Our work pinpoints critical hardware metrics and provides a compelling path toward high-performance fault-tolerant computation on near-term-manufacturable spin qubit arrays.
title A manufacturable surface code architecture for spin qubits with fast transversal logic
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07131