Control-Noise Trade-offs in Industrially Integrated ${}^{28}\mathrm{Si}/\mathrm{SiGe}$ Spin-1/2 Qubits
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Leon C. Camenzind, Ik Kyeong Jin, Yi-Hsien Wu, Akito Noiri, Kenta Takeda, Takashi Nakajima et al. · arXiv: 2610.41890v1 · Summary page
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For silicon qubits, quieter can also mean harder to drive
Industrial fabrication need not rule out precise quantum control. Researchers studying silicon electron-spin qubits made with Intel’s industry-compatible process report primitive gate fidelities at the 99.99% level. Compared with a research-cleanroom reference device, the industrial devices also showed longer coherence while idle, weaker low-frequency correlations and less variation between qubits across several measured characteristics.
The comparison exposes a design compromise. Micromagnets let electric signals control the spins, but their magnetic-field gradients also turn electrical noise into fluctuations of the qubit frequency. Placing the magnets farther from the quantum well weakens that noise pathway while making electrical driving less efficient. As wiring becomes denser, the placement of magnets within the fabrication stack becomes a system-level decision—not merely a detail of an individual qubit.
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