Entanglement between two singlet-triplet qubits

Michael Shulman

Guo Xuan Chan, Xin Wang

The search for a sweet spot, the locus in qubit parameters where quantum control is first-order insensitive to noises, is key to achieve high-fidelity quantum gates. Efforts to search for such a sweet spot in conventional double-quantum-dot singlet-triplet qubits where each dot hosts one electron (``two-electron singlet-triplet qubit''), especially for two-qubit operations, have been unsuccessful. Here we consider singlet-triplet qubits allowing each dot to host more than one electron, with a total of four electrons in the double quantum dots (``four-electron singlet-triplet qubit''). We theoretically demonstrate, using configuration interaction calculations, that sweet spots appear in this coupled qubit system. We further demonstrate that, under realistic charge noise and hyperfine noise, a two-qubit operation at the proposed sweet spot could offer gate fidelities ($\ensuremath{\sim}99%$) that are higher than the conventional two-electron singlet-triplet qubit system ($\ensuremath{\sim}90%$). Our results should facilitate realization of high-fidelity two-qubit gates in singlet-triplet qubit systems.

Yang-Le Wu, S. Das Sarma

We study a pair of capacitively coupled singlet-triplet spin qubits. We characterize the two-qubit decoherence through two complementary measures, the decay time of coupled-qubit oscillations and the fidelity of entangled state preparation. We provide a quantitative map of their dependence on charge noise and field noise, and we highlight the magnetic field gradient across each singlet-triplet qubit as an effective tool to suppress decoherence due to charge noise.

Mohammad Mehdi Sahrapour, Nancy Makri

L. K. Castelano, F. F. Fanchini, K. Berrada

We develop a theoretical model to describe the dissipative dynamics of singlet-triplet qubits in GaAs quantum dots. Using the concurrence experimentally obtained [Shulman et al., Science 336, 202 (2012)] as a guide, we assume that each logical qubit fluctuates under the action of a random telegraph noise (RTN) that simulates the $1/{f}^{\ensuremath{\alpha}}$ noise. We also study the dynamics of concurrence as a function of the amplitude of the RTN, the correlation time of the RTN, the preparation time of states, and the two-qubit coupling. Furthermore, we show that the two-qubit coupling together with the preparation time strongly affect the entanglement dissipative dynamics and both physical quantities can be employed to enhance the entanglement between singlet-triplet qubits.