High-fidelity flopping-mode single-spin operation via triple-dot orbital-band engineering
Abstract Fast electrical spin rotations in quantum dots require strong spin-charge hybridization, but the same hybridization can increase sensitivity to detuning noise. In a double-quantum-dot (DQD) flopping-mode qubit, the sweet-spot width and the Rabi enhancement are both tied to the same orbital splitting, limiting post-fabrication optimization of the speed-coherence trade-off. Here, we demonstrate a GaAs triple-quantum-dot (TQD) flopping-mode qubit in which the detuning of the third dot, ϵ 34 , provides an additional electrical tuning parameter for orbital-band flattening. Tuning ϵ 34 flattens the qubit-frequency dependence on the detuning of the target DQD while maintaining strong spin-charge hybridization, enabling electrically driven Rabi frequencies above 100 MHz. We then use feedforward-neural-network (FNN) feedback to track slow qubit-frequency drift and connect this engineered operating point to high-fidelity gates. This feedback suppresses slow qubit-frequency fluctuations, reducing their standard deviation to 388 kHz, and yields a π /2 gate fidelity of 99.56% with a 4.05 ns gate time. These results identify TQD orbital-band engineering as an electrical route for tuning the speed-coherence trade-off, complementary to material-intrinsic spin-orbit coupling and fixed micromagnet geometry.
Authors
- Arne Ludwig (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2871-7789)
- Andreas Dirk Wieck (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9776-2922)
- Y. Matsumoto
- K. Koike
- T. Miyoshi
- A. Oiwa
- X.-F. Liu
- T. Fujita
Institutions
- Spintronics Research Network of Japan (JP)
- Trend Micro (Japan) (JP)
- Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology, The University of Osaka (JP)
- Ruhr University Bochum (DE)
- The University of Osaka (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- npj Quantum Information
- Published
- 2026-10-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-026-01400-1
- Primary Topic
- Quantum and electron transport phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00