High-fidelity geometric gate for silicon-based spin qubits

Abstract: High-fidelity manipulation is the key for the physical realization of fault-tolerant quantum computation. Here, we present a protocol to realize universal nonadiabatic geometric gates for silicon-based spin qubits. We find that the advantage of geometric gates over dynamical gates depends crucially on the evolution loop for the construction of the geometric phase. Under appropriate evolution loops, both the geometric single-qubit gates and the CNOT gate can outperform their dynamical counterparts for both systematic and detuning noises. We also perform randomized benchmarking using noise amplitudes consistent with experiments in silicon. For the static noise model, the averaged fidelities of geometric gates are around 99.90\% or above, while for the time-dependent $1/f$-type noise, the fidelities are around 99.98\% when only the detuning noise is present. We also show that the improvement in fidelities of the geometric gates over dynamical ones typically increases with the exponent $\alpha$ of the $1/f$ noise, and the ratio can be as high as 4 when $\alpha\approx 3$. Our results suggest that geometric gates with judiciously chosen evolution loops can be a powerful way to realize high-fidelity quantum gates.