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@PHDTHESIS{Botzem:836590,
author = {Botzem, Tim},
title = {{C}oherence and high fidelity control of two-electron spin
qubits in {G}a{A}s quantum dots},
school = {RWTH Aachen},
type = {Dr.},
publisher = {RWTH Aachen University},
reportid = {FZJ-2017-05665},
pages = {150},
year = {2017},
note = {http://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/689507Identification
nr: REPORT NUMBER: RWTH-2017-04410; RWTH Aachen, Diss.,
2017},
abstract = {Electron spin qubits confined in GaAs quantum dots are
among the most established and well understood qubit
systems. Long coherence times due to their weak
interactionwith the environment and the electrical
tunability of the semiconductor quantum dot have allowed
GaAs-based spin qubits to play a central role in
demonstrating the keyoperations of semiconductor spin
qubits, such as initialization, read-out, universal control
and two-qubit gates. Furthermore, spins confined in
semiconductor nanostructuresprovide a solid-state approach
to quantum computation which leverages current, well
established semiconductor production technology for device
fabrication and potential scalability.However, the
interaction with nuclear spins in the GaAs host material
complicates not only the preservation of qubit coherence,
but also the precise control of the electronspins. As both
these properties, the coherence time and the fidelity of
gate operations, play a crucial role as prerequisites for
quantum computing, the focus of this thesis areexperiments
addressing these challenges on the basis of two-electron
spin qubits. Interesting effects arise from the quadrupolar
interaction of nuclear spins with electric field gradients.
We show experimentally that quadrupolar broadening of the
nuclear Larmor precession reduces electron spin coherence
via faster decorrelation of transversenuclear fields.
However, this effect disappears for appropriate field
directions. Furthermore, we observe an additional modulation
of coherence attributed to an anisotropicelectronic
g-tensor. These results complete our understanding of
dephasing in gated quantum dots and point to mitigation
strategies. A key requirement for quantum computation are
high-fidelity single qubit operations, which so far have not
been demonstrated for encoded qubits in GaAs. Here, we
realize such accurate operations by iteratively tuning of
the all-electrical control pulses. Using randomized
benchmarking, a well established characterization method, we
find anaverage gate fidelity of F = (98.5 ± 0.1) $\%$ and
determine the sum of gate leakage out of and back into the
computational subspace to be L = (0.4 ± 0.1) $\%.$ These
results demonstrate that high fidelity gates can be realized
even in the presence of nuclear spins as existent in all
III-V semiconductors.The potential of a feedback mechanism
based on electric dipole spin resonance for narrowing the
nuclear hyperfine field and its effectiveness for extending
qubit coherencetime is investigated in a last experiment.
Compared to a previously developed feedback mechanism, this
polarization scheme promises higher and more stable pump
rates andthe ability to set local magnetic fields in each
quantum dot individually},
cin = {PGI-11},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-11-20170113},
pnm = {144 - Controlling Collective States (POF3-144)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-144},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
doi = {10.18154/RWTH-2017-04410},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/836590},
}