Industrial 300 mm wafer processed spin qubits in natural silicon/silicon-germanium
Abstract The realisation of a universal quantum computer will require the operation of many thousands to millions of coherently coupled qubits. The possibility of using existing industrial semiconductor fabrication techniques and infrastructure for up-scaling and reproducibility makes silicon based spin qubits one of the most promising platforms to achieve this goal. The implementation of the up to now largest semiconductor based quantum processor was realised in a silicon/silicon-germanium heterostructure known for its low charge noise, long qubit coherence times and fast driving speeds, but the high structural complexity creates challenges for industrial implementations. Here we demonstrate quantum dots hosted in a natural Si/SiGe heterostructure fully fabricated by an industrial 300 mm semiconductor wafer process line from heterostructure growth to Co micromagnet monolithic integration. We report charge noise values below 2 μeV/ $$\sqrt{{\rm{Hz}}}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msqrt> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>Hz</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> </mml:msqrt> </mml:math> , spin relaxation times exceeding 1 s, and coherence times $${T}_{2}^{* }$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msubsup> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>T</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>*</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:msubsup> </mml:math> and $${T}_{2}^{H}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msubsup> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>T</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>H</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> </mml:msubsup> </mml:math> of 1 μs and 50 μs respectively, for quantum wells grown using natural silicon. Further, we achieve Rabi frequencies up to 5 MHz and single qubit gate fidelities above 99%. In addition to scalability, the high reproducibility of the 300 mm processes enables the deterministic study of qubit metric dependencies on process parameters, which is essential for optimising qubit quality.
Authors
- Roger Loo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3513-6058)
- Clément Godfrin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5244-3474)
- Julian Ferrero (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5993-4008)
- Wolfgang Wernsdorfer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4602-5257)
- Kristiaan De Greve (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1314-9715)
- George Simion (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6880-6161)
- Thomas Koch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0381-0653)
- Stefan Kubicek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0855-8343)
- Shana Massar
- Daniel Schroller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5336-9456)
- Ruoyu Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2145-7590)
- Danny Wan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4847-3184)
- Viktor Adam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9224-9504)
- Noah Glaeser
Institutions
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)
- Ghent University (BE)
- IMEC (BE)
- KU Leuven (BE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- npj Quantum Information
- Published
- 2025-04-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-025-01016-x
- Citations
- 10
- Primary Topic
- Quantum and electron transport phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 12.47
Funders
- European Commission
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
- Leibniz-Gemeinschaft