Nonadiabatic quantum control of quantum dot arrays with fixed exchange using Cartan decomposition

TL;DR

This paper presents a nonadiabatic control method for shuttling spins in quantum dot arrays with fixed exchange interactions, using Cartan decomposition and dynamical invariants to design smooth pulses suitable for practical devices.

Contribution

It introduces a systematic approach employing Cartan decomposition and dynamical invariants for nonadiabatic spin shuttling in quantum dot chains with fixed exchange coupling, extending previous work to larger systems.

Findings

Effective nonadiabatic pulses for spin shuttling in quantum dots.

Method applicable to long chains and 2D lattices.

Compatible with devices having modest control bandwidth.

Abstract

In semiconductor spin qubits which typically interact through short-range exchange coupling, shuttling of spin is a practical way to generate quantum operations between distant qubits. Although the exchange is often tunable through voltages applied to gate electrodes, its minimal value can be significantly large, which hinders the applicability of existing shuttling protocols to such devices, requiring a different approach. In this work, we extend our previous results for double- and triple-dot systems, and describe a method for implementing spin shuttling in long chains of quantum dots in a nonadiabatic manner. We make use of Cartan decomposition to break down the interacting problem into simpler problems in a systematic way, and use dynamical invariants to design smooth nonadiabatic pulses that can be implemented in devices with modest control bandwidth. Finally, we discuss the extensibility of our results to directed shuttling of spin states on two-dimensional lattices of quantum dots with fixed coupling.