Outline Quantum computing -Why do we care?-What is it? Qubit technology -Where silicon fits in This work -An all-electrical, simple CMOS-compatible qubit Results -Qubit readout, control, mechanisms Conclusion -Prospects for integration
To reach quantum supremacy, quantum computers need >50 logical qubits with <; mv accurate biasing, GHz-range signal handling, and μs readout of thousands of physical qubits at sub-Kelvin temperatures. Silicon-based qubits are a promising approach to scale the qubit number owing to their low footprint (100nm) and gaining from the CMOS industrial background to reach maturity [1]. Moreover, the quantum silicon choice allows the IC community to integrate large-scale qubit-control electronics directly nearby the quantum silicon core, thus drastically reducing the wire-connection number and qubit-addressing fanout, meanwhile increasing the operation bandwidth for error correction and the spin-readout sensitivity.
Recent advances in quantum error correction codes for fault-tolerant quantum computing and physical realizations of high-fidelity qubits in multiple platforms give promise for the construction of a quantum computer based on millions of interacting qubits. However, the classical-quantum interface remains a nascent field of exploration. Here, we propose an architecture for a silicon-based quantum computer processor based on complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology. We show how a transistor-based control circuit together with charge-storage electrodes can be used to operate a dense and scalable two-dimensional qubit system. The qubits are defined by the spin state of a single electron confined in quantum dots, coupled via exchange interactions, controlled using a microwave cavity, and measured via gate-based dispersive readout. We implement a spin qubit surface code, showing the prospects for universal quantum computation. We discuss the challenges and focus areas that need to be addressed, providing a path for large-scale quantum computing.
Spin qubits in silicon-MOS (SiMOS) quantum dots have recently demonstrated compatibility with existing industry standard CMOS fabrication techniques. These devices have routinely achieved single- and two-qubit gate fidelities above 99% and demonstrated highly entangled two-qubit Bell states in isolated double quantum dot (DQD) unit cells, however coupling between unit cells has remained challenging. In this work, we present a two unit cell, four-qubit SiMOS processor with universal controllability and fully parallelised state initialisation and readout. We use this processor to generate maximally entangled three-qubit states, including the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state, and certify multipartite entanglement through violation of the classical Mermin-witness bound. By using a fully symmetric dynamically decoupled gate sequence to create our entangled states, we are able to preserve the lifetime of the entanglement beyond T2∗, to a time limited instead by T2Hahn. These demonstrations pave a road to the scalable operation of larger SiMOS processors, and achieving high purity, long-lived multi-qubit entangled states in them.