Capacitively coupled singlet-triplet qubits in the double charge resonant regime

TL;DR

This paper proposes a method for entangling singlet-triplet qubits in double quantum dots using capacitive interactions in a double charge resonant regime, analyzing fidelity and noise effects.

Contribution

It introduces a novel entangling gate scheme leveraging the double charge resonant regime and evaluates its fidelity considering realistic noise sources.

Findings

High theoretical gate fidelities achievable in silicon quantum dots.

Gate speed depends on the relative orientation of the double dots.

Charge relaxation and phonon interactions significantly affect fidelity.

Abstract

We investigate a method for entangling two singlet-triplet qubits in adjacent double quantum dots via capacitive interactions. In contrast to prior work, here we focus on a regime with strong interactions between the qubits. The interplay of the interaction energy and simultaneous large detunings for both double dots gives rise to the double charge resonant regime, in which the unpolarized (1111) and fully polarized (0202) four-electron states in the absence of interqubit tunneling are near degeneracy, while being energetically well-separated from the partially polarized (0211 and 1102) states. A rapid controlled-phase gate may be realized by combining time evolution in this regime in the presence of intraqubit tunneling and the interqubit Coulomb interaction with refocusing ${\pi}$ pulses that swap the singly occupied singlet and triplet states of the two qubits via, e.g., magnetic gradients. We calculate the fidelity of this entangling gate, incorporating models for two types of noise -- charge fluctuations in the single-qubit detunings and charge relaxation within the low-energy subspace via electron-phonon interaction -- and identify parameter regimes that optimize the fidelity. The rates of phonon-induced decay for pairs of GaAs or Si double quantum dots vary with the sizes of the dipolar and quadrupolar contributions and are several orders of magnitude smaller for Si, leading to high theoretical gate fidelities for coupled singlet-triplet qubits in Si dots. We also consider the dependence of the capacitive coupling on the relative orientation of the double dots and find that a linear geometry provides the fastest potential gate.