arXiv:2510.04462 · Physical Review A

Robust iswap gates for semiconductor spin qubits with local driving

Qi-Pei Liu, Zheng‐Yuan Xue

Published Oct 7, 2025• 0 citations

Abstract

Scalable quantum computation demands high-fidelity two-qubit gates. However, decoherence and control errors are inevitable, which can decrease the quality of implemented quantum operations. We propose a robust iswap gate protocol for semiconductor spin qubits, which is a promising platform for scalable quantum computing. Our scheme uses only local microwave drives on conventional exchange-coupled spin qubits. This approach simultaneously addresses two critical challenges to semiconductor quantum computing: It suppresses low-frequency noise via continuous dynamical decoupling, and it circumvents the control difficulties associated with the ac modulation of the exchange interaction. We further develop a composite pulse sequence to remove drive-strength constraints and a dynamically corrected method to provide first-order immunity to microwave amplitude errors. Numerical simulations confirm that our scheme can achieve fidelity above the fault-tolerance threshold under current experimental conditions, offering a building block for practical quantum processors.

DOI: 10.1103/68m1-mjzy

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