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Scalable Quantum Memory Nodes Using Nuclear Spins in Silicon Carbide

Shravan Kumar Parthasarathy1,2, Birgit Kallinger1, Florian Kaiser3,4, Patrick Berwian1, Durga B.R. Dasari3,4, Jochen Friedrich1, and Roland Nagy2,*

  • 1Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology (IISB), Germany
  • 2Group of Applied Quantum Technologies (AQuT.), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany
  • 33rd Institute of Physics and Stuttgart Research Center of Photonic Engineering (SCoPE), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart 70569, Germany
  • 4Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology (IQST), Germany

  • *roland.nagy@fau.de

Phys. Rev. Applied 19, 034026 – Published 8 March, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.19.034026

Abstract

A distributed quantum network would require quantum nodes capable of performing arbitrary quantum information protocols with high fidelity. So far the challenge has been in realizing such quantum nodes with features for scalable quantum computing. We show here that using the solid-state spins in 4H silicon carbide (4H SiC) such a goal could be realized, wherein a controlled generation of highly coherent qubit registers using nuclear spins is possible. Using a controlled isotope concentration and coherent control we perform here atomistic modeling of the central spin system formed by the electron spin of a silicon-vacancy color center (VSi center) and the noninteracting nuclear spins. From this we lay out conditions for realizing a scalable nuclear-spin (13C or 29Si) register, wherein independent control of the qubits alongside their mutual controlled operations using the central electron spin associated to the VSi center in 4H SiC are achieved. Further, the decoherence and entanglement analysis provided here could be used to evaluate the quantum volume of these nodes. Our results mark a clear route towards realizing scalable quantum memory nodes for applications in distributed quantum computing networks and further for quantum information protocols.

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