Rajat Bharadwaj, Parvathy Gireesan, H. Sundaresan, Chithra H. Sharma, Lucky Donald Lyngdoh Kynshi, Prasad Muragesh, Dominique Bougeard, Madhu Thalakulam
Solid-state quantum technologies such as quantum dot qubits and quantum electrical metrology circuits rely on ultra-low energy quantum phenomena, making them susceptible to various forms of environmental noise. Conventional passive filtering schemes can reduce high-frequency noise but are often ineffective against low-frequency interference, like powerline or instrument-induced. Extending such filters to lower frequencies causes issues such as longer stabilization times, slower system response, and increased Johnson noise, which impede low-frequency transport measurements. To address these limitations, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a generalized active noise cancelation scheme for quantum devices operating at sub-Kelvin temperatures. Our approach compensates periodic environmental interference by dynamically injecting a phase-coherent anti-noise signal directly into the device. We employ an automated feedback protocol featuring beat frequency reduction and adaptive phase-amplitude tuning, enabling real-time compensation without any manual intervention. Unlike post-processing or passive filtering, this method suppresses noise at the device level without introducing additional time constants. We implement the scheme on a gate-defined Si/SiGe quantum dot acting as a candidate system subject to strong 50 Hz powerline interference and validate its effectiveness through acquiring Coulomb blockade oscillations and Coulomb diamond plots. The technique achieves substantial suppression of both the targeted interference and the overall noise floor, thereby stabilizing transport characteristics and enhancing device fidelity. While demonstrated on a quantum dot, the proposed framework is broadly applicable to a wide class of solid-state quantum devices where deterministic noise presents a critical bottleneck. Our results establish active anti-noise injection as a versatile strategy for advancing noise-resilient quantum measurement platforms.
Solid-state quantum technologies such as quantum dot qubits and quantum electrical metrology circuits rely on ultra-low energy quantum phenomena, making them susceptible to various forms of environmental noise. Conventional passive filtering schemes can reduce high-frequency noise but are often ineffective against low-frequency interference, like powerline or instrument-induced. Extending such filters to lower frequencies causes issues such as longer stabilization times, slower system response, and increased Johnson noise, which impede low-frequency transport measurements. To address these limitations, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a generalized active noise cancelation scheme for quantum devices operating at sub-Kelvin temperatures. Our approach compensates periodic environmental interference by dynamically injecting a phase-coherent anti-noise signal directly into the device. We employ an automated feedback protocol featuring beat frequency reduction and adaptive phase-amplitude tuning, enabling real-time compensation without any manual intervention. Unlike post-processing or passive filtering, this method suppresses noise at the device level without introducing additional time constants. We implement the scheme on a gate-defined Si/SiGe quantum dot acting as a candidate system subject to strong 50 Hz powerline interference and validate its effectiveness through acquiring Coulomb blockade oscillations and Coulomb diamond plots. The technique achieves substantial suppression of both the targeted interference and the overall noise floor, thereby stabilizing transport characteristics and enhancing device fidelity. While demonstrated on a quantum dot, the proposed framework is broadly applicable to a wide class of solid-state quantum devices where deterministic noise presents a critical bottleneck. Our results establish active anti-noise injection as a versatile strategy for advancing noise-resilient quantum measurement platforms.
Solid-state quantum technologies such as quantum dot qubits and quantum electrical metrology circuits rely on quantum phenomena at ultra-low energies, making them highly sensitive to various forms of environmental noise. Conventional passive filtering schemes can reduce high-frequency noise but are often ineffective against low-frequency interference, like powerline or instrument-induced. Extending such filters to lower frequencies causes practical issues such as longer stabilization times, slower system response, and increased Johnson noise, which impede low-frequency transport measurements. To address these limitations, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a generalized active noise cancellation scheme for quantum devices operating at sub-Kelvin temperatures. Our approach compensates periodic environmental interference by dynamically injecting a phase-coherent anti-noise signal directly into the device. We employ an automated feedback protocol featuring beat-frequency reduction and adaptive phase-amplitude tuning, enabling real-time compensation without any manual intervention. Unlike post-processing or passive filtering, this method suppresses noise at the device level without introducing additional time constants. We implement the scheme on a gate-defined Si/SiGe quantum dot subject to strong 50 Hz powerline interference and validate its effectiveness through acquiring Coulomb Blockade Oscillations and Coulomb diamond plots. The technique achieves substantial suppression of both the targeted interference and the overall noise floor, thereby stabilizing transport characteristics and enhancing device fidelity. While demonstrated on a quantum dot, the proposed framework is broadly applicable to a wide class of solid-state quantum devices where deterministic noise presents a critical bottleneck.
The direct realization of a quantum-enhanced phase noise filter has remained a major challenge. Conventional techniques are not only plagued by substantial technical noise but also fundamentally constrained by inherent quantum penalty, precluding their direct application in quantum-enhanced noise filtering. This work has realized a practical approach to the first, to our knowledge, quantum-enhanced laser phase noise filter by confronting the key challenges that degrade phase noise extraction and quantum enhancement, specifically the technical noises in the laser’s amplitude and phase. Our strategy employs a detuned cavity to direct optical readout of phase noise combined with a hybrid stabilization scheme to suppress both amplitude and phase noises simultaneously. This allows us to circumvent the limitations imposed by quantum noise penalty and effectively enable quantum enhancement via squeezed vacuum injection. Experimentally, we have achieved up to 5 dB of quantum-enhanced phase noise suppression across Fourier frequencies ranging from 5 to 60 kHz. This scheme represents more than just a proof-of-principle—it unlocks the potential of squeezed-enhanced laser phase noise suppression for a broad spectrum of applications.
Addressing and mitigating decoherence sources plays an essential role in the development of a scalable quantum computing system, which requires low gate errors to be consistently maintained throughout the circuit execution. While nuclear spin-free materials, such as isotopically purified silicon, exhibit intrinsically promising coherence properties for electron spin qubits, the omnipresent charge noise, when converted to magnetic noise under a strong magnetic field gradient, often hinders stable qubit operation within a time frame comparable to the data acquisition time. Here, we demonstrate both open- and closed-loop suppression techniques for the transduced noise in silicon spin qubits, resulting in a more than two-fold (ten-fold) improvement of the inhomogeneous coherence time (Rabi oscillation quality) that leads to a single-qubit gate fidelity of over 99.6% even in the presence of a strong decoherence field gradient. Utilizing gate set tomography, we show that adaptive qubit control also reduces the non-Markovian noise in the system, which validates the stability of the gate fidelity. The technique can be used to learn multiple Hamiltonian parameters and is useful for the intermittent calibration of the circuit parameters with affordable experimental overhead, providing a useful subroutine during the repeated execution of general quantum circuits. Nuclear spin-free materials like 28Si show promising electron spin coherence times, but qubit operation still suffers from low-frequency noise. Here the authors address this by applying open- and closed-loop feedback control methods including real-time Hamiltonian parameter estimation and dynamic voltage pulsing.
The coherence of electron spin qubits in semiconductor quantum dots suffers mostly from low-frequency noise.During the past decade, efforts have been devoted to mitigate such noise by material engineering, leading to substantial enhancement of the spin dephasing time for an idling qubit.However, the role of the environmental noise during spin manipulation, which determines the control fidelity, is less understood.We demonstrate an electron spin qubit whose coherence in the driven evolution is limited by highfrequency charge noise rather than the quasistatic noise inherent to any semiconductor device.We employ a feedback-control technique to actively suppress the latter, demonstrating a π-flip gate fidelity as high as 99.04 Æ 0.23% in a gallium arsenide quantum dot.We show that the driven-evolution coherence is limited by the longitudinal noise at the Rabi frequency, whose spectrum resembles the 1=f noise observed in isotopically purified silicon qubits.
Current quantum computing architectures rely predominantly on “Passive Isolation” strategies such as dilution refrigeration and electromagnetic shielding to protect qubit coherence. However, the persistence of residual noise suggests that static isolation is insufficient against the dynamic fluctuations of space-time. This paper presents a novel protocol for “Active Quantum Synchronization” based on the principles of Floquet Engineering and Harmonic Resonance. Analogous to dynamic stabilization systems in maritime engineering, we propose injecting a specific harmonic carrier wave (derived from Field C) into the quantum system. This driving force locks the qubit’s internal phase to the environmental background frequency, cancelling out decoherence through constructive interference and creating a phase locked stability zone.
To suppress decoherence of solid-state qubits induced by non-Markovian noises, we propose a strategy to couple the qubit with a chaotic device, whose broad power distribution in the high-frequency domain can be used to freeze the noises in the similar way of the dynamical decoupling control (DDC) method. Compared with the DDC, high-frequency components can be generated by the chaotic device even driven by a low-frequency field and thus the control fields do not need any optimization. Thus, our method is easier to be realized in experiments. As an application to superconducting circuits, we find that various noises in a broad band, including low-frequency 1/ƒ, high-frequency Ohmic, sub-Ohmic, and super-Ohmic noises, can be efficiently suppressed by coupling the qubit to a Duffing oscillator, and the decoherence rate of the qubit is efficiently decreased by about 100 times in magnitude. Using experimentally realizable parameters, the decoherence time of the superconducting charge qubit can reach 200 µs by our method, which is 10 ∼ 100 times longer in magnitude than that observed in experiments.