Project description
Quantum computing with silicon spin qubits
Silicon has long been the cornerstone of classical information processing, but it has yet to become a mainstream material for quantum computing. While silicon spin qubits exhibit exceptional properties, such as long coherence times and high-fidelity control, challenges remain in coupling and readout mechanisms necessary for scaling. The EU-funded EQUSPACE project aims to solve these issues by developing scalable solutions for control, spin-spin coupling and on-chip routing of quantum information. By advancing material science techniques like deterministic ion doping and isotopic purification, EQUSPACE will create a complete quantum platform, bringing together European experts to establish a new hub for donor spin-based silicon quantum computing, with applications in both quantum processing and sensing.
Objective
Although silicon has been the defining material of classical information processing, it is currently not the main material advanced for quantum information processing. It would however be very compelling to leverage the existing multibillion euro silicon infrastructure. Silicon spin qubits have already been shown to have excellent single-qubit properties, combining long coherence times with high-fidelity readout and control. The reason silicon qubits are not yet seen as a mainstream platform for quantum computing is mainly due to the lack of convenient coupling and readout mechanisms that could be used to scale-up to practical level. This proposal addresses both deficiencies and aims to enable a long-term future for donor spin qubits in silicon in Europe, for both quantum processing and quantum sensing applications.
This project will provide a scalable solution for all the important aspects of a quantum platform: control and readout, spin-spin coupling, and routing quantum information on-chip. In parallel, we will advance the needed material science methods, concentrating especially on deterministic single-ion doping, isotopical purification and strain tuning of silicon.
The end product of the project will be a complete quantum information platform including qubits, interconnects and scalable control and readout electronics. The platform will be based on embedded atomic spins as qubits, phonons as interconnects and gate defined quantum dots with on-chip multiplexing and amplification as readout devices. The project will bring together the relevant parties in Europe into a collaboration that will form a new hub for donor spin-based silicon quantum computing. The created network will span focused ion beam based single-ion implantation and isotopic purification facilities, semi-commercial silicon foundries, start-up companies working on silicon quantum dots and research groups researching silicon spin quantum computing and quantum acoustics.
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HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC)
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDEROPEN-01
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40100 Jyvaskyla
Finland
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