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Precision tomography of a three-qubit donor quantum processor in silicon

Mądzik, Mateusz T.; Asaad, Serwan; Youssry, Akram; Joecker, Benjamin; Rudinger, Kenneth M.; Nielsen, Erik N.; Young, Kevin C.; Proctor, Timothy J.; Baczewski, Andrew D.; Laucht, Arne; Schmitt, Vivien; Hudson, Fay E.; Itoh, Kohei M.; Jakob, Alexander M.; Johnson, Brett C.; Jamieson, David N.; Dzurak, Andrew S.; Ferrie, Christopher; Blume-Kohout, Robin J.; Morello, Andrea

Nuclear spins were among the first physical platforms to be considered for quantum information processing1,2, because of their exceptional quantum coherence3 and atomic-scale footprint. However, their full potential for quantum computing has not yet been realized, owing to the lack of methods with which to link nuclear qubits within a scalable device combined with multi-qubit operations with sufficient fidelity to sustain fault-tolerant quantum computation. Here we demonstrate universal quantum logic operations using a pair of ion-implanted 31P donor nuclei in a silicon nanoelectronic device. A nuclear two-qubit controlled-Z gate is obtained by imparting a geometric phase to a shared electron spin4, and used to prepare entangled Bell states with fidelities up to 94.2(2.7)%. The quantum operations are precisely characterized using gate set tomography (GST)5, yielding one-qubit average gate fidelities up to 99.95(2)%, two-qubit average gate fidelity of 99.37(11)% and two-qubit preparation/measurement fidelities of 98.95(4)%. These three metrics indicate that nuclear spins in silicon are approaching the performance demanded in fault-tolerant quantum processors6. We then demonstrate entanglement between the two nuclei and the shared electron by producing a Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger three-qubit state with 92.5(1.0)% fidelity. Because electron spin qubits in semiconductors can be further coupled to other electrons7–9 or physically shuttled across different locations10,11, these results establish a viable route for scalable quantum information processing using donor nuclear and electron spins.