Multiparticle entanglement of nuclear spins in silicon
Silicon spin qubits offer high-fidelity control and semiconductor manufacturing compatibility. However, the systematic generation and characterization of multiparticle entanglement, a core resource for quantum information science, remain elusive in such systems. Here, we demonstrate the complete preparation of all nine canonical families of four-qubit entanglement between donor spins in silicon, by designing hardware-efficient quantum circuits that use native multi-qubit operations. We employ advanced overlapping tomography and multifaceted verification to fully characterize these states. Our results confirm genuine multiparticle entanglement, resolve their entanglement structure, and assess their robustness under qubit loss. Moreover, we observe significant violations of multiparticle Bell-type inequalities for genuine four-qubit nonlocality. On the prepared Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state, we further uncover a noise-induced entanglement dynamics from distillable to bound and finally to separable, with bound entanglement unlocked via joint measurement. This work generates diverse entanglement resources alongside their complete characterization, establishing a foundation for entanglement-enabled quantum applications in silicon. Multiparticle entanglement in silicon spin qubits has been difficult to generate and fully characterize beyond three-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states. Here, the authors demonstrate complete preparation and verification of all nine canonical families of four qubit entanglement in donor spins in silicon.
Authors
- Guanyong Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3745-7656)
- Peihao Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9835-6667)
- Yu He (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8892-9425)
- Guangchong Hu
- Keji Shi
- Di Yu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9947-0624)
- Chunhui Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4149-4222)
- Chunhui Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4213-3923)
- Tao Xin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8961-1945)
- Shihang Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8584-3457)
- Tianluo Pan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9268-9567)
- Meiling Duan
- Yi Deng
- Feng Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5272-1114)
- Kada Yang
- Peng Du
- Zhen Tian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4367-3666)
- Song Liu
- Chao Wei
Institutions
- University of Science and Technology of China (CN)
- Southern University of Science and Technology (CN)
- Hefei University (CN)
- Hefei National Center for Physical Sciences at Nanoscale (CN)
- Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2026-06-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-74491-1
- Primary Topic
- Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- National Science and Technology Major Project
- Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province