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Using a spin-triplet encoding to enhance shuttling fidelities in Si/SiGe quantum wells

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keywords Si/SiGe quantum wellselectron shuttlingvalley splittingLandau-Zener leakagetwo-electron qubitsspin-triplet encodingquantum dot transport
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Two-electron valley-singlet encoding makes shuttling fidelity improve with smaller valley splittings in Si/SiGe wells.

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The paper proposes an unconventional qubit encoding that uses two electrons in valley-singlet states for conveyor-mode shuttling. This choice avoids the Landau-Zener excitations that occur when single-electron spins encounter spatial changes in valley splitting. As a result the shuttling fidelity rises rather than falls when the valley splitting is small. High fidelities are obtained without any fine-tuning of the transport path or other special controls.

Core claim

The authors demonstrate that a two-electron qubit encoded in valley-singlet states remains largely immune to Landau-Zener leakage during shuttling in Si/SiGe quantum wells, with the fidelity actually improving as the valley splitting decreases, allowing reliable high-fidelity transport without special procedures.

What carries the argument

The valley-singlet two-electron encoding, which stores the qubit information in states that do not couple to differences in valley splitting and therefore suppress leakage out of the computational subspace.

Load-bearing premise

Valley-singlet states can be prepared and kept stable as qubits throughout shuttling without new decoherence or control errors arising from two-electron interactions.

What would settle it

An experiment that measures shuttling fidelity as a function of valley splitting and finds that fidelity falls or stays low for small splittings under the two-electron encoding would falsify the central claim.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Encoding schemes for high-fidelity conveyor-mode [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Infidelities obtained when shuttling spin triplets (Tr. Inf.) for different disorder and confinement strengths. (a) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Spatial variations of the valley splitting in a quantum well present a key challenge for conveyor-mode shuttling of electron spins in Si/SiGe, giving rise to Landau-Zener-like excitations that cause leakage outside the qubit subspace. Here, we propose an unconventional two-electron qubit encoding, based on valley-singlet states, that is largely immune to Landau-Zener leakage processes. In contrast to single-electron spins, the shuttling fidelity actually improves for small valley splittings, in this case. We show that high fidelities can be achieved without applying any special procedures, such as fine-tuning of the shuttling path.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes an unconventional two-electron qubit encoding based on valley-singlet states for conveyor-mode shuttling of electrons in Si/SiGe quantum wells. It claims this encoding is largely immune to Landau-Zener leakage arising from spatial variations in valley splitting, with shuttling fidelity improving (rather than degrading) as valley splitting decreases, all without requiring special path tuning or fine-tuning procedures.

Significance. If the central claim holds, the work offers a conceptually simple route to high-fidelity long-distance shuttling in silicon spin-qubit platforms, directly mitigating a dominant error source without added experimental complexity. The approach leverages standard valley physics in a two-particle subspace to achieve the reported immunity, which would be a useful addition to the toolkit for scalable Si/SiGe architectures.

major comments (2)
  1. [Hamiltonian and LZ analysis] The claim that the valley-singlet subspace experiences no effective LZ coupling even as Δ_v → 0 requires an explicit derivation of the time-dependent two-electron Hamiltonian (including Coulomb and exchange terms) showing either commutation with the singlet projector or an exponentially suppressed transition probability; no such derivation or effective model appears in the text, leaving the immunity unverified.
  2. [Fidelity results] Quantitative fidelity calculations or simulations for the two-electron encoding under realistic shuttling velocities and valley profiles are absent; the assertion that fidelity improves at small valley splittings (in contrast to the single-electron case) is stated qualitatively but remains unsupported by numerics or analytic expressions that include two-particle effects.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Title and abstract] The title refers to a 'spin-triplet encoding' while the abstract highlights 'valley-singlet states'; explicitly define the combined spin-valley encoding in the introduction to remove potential confusion.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their careful reading, positive assessment of the work's significance, and constructive comments. We address the two major points below and have revised the manuscript to provide the requested derivations and quantitative results.

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  1. Referee: [Hamiltonian and LZ analysis] The claim that the valley-singlet subspace experiences no effective LZ coupling even as Δ_v → 0 requires an explicit derivation of the time-dependent two-electron Hamiltonian (including Coulomb and exchange terms) showing either commutation with the singlet projector or an exponentially suppressed transition probability; no such derivation or effective model appears in the text, leaving the immunity unverified.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit derivation strengthens the central claim. In the revised manuscript we have added a dedicated section deriving the full time-dependent two-electron Hamiltonian in the presence of position-dependent valley splitting, Coulomb repulsion, and exchange. Projecting onto the valley-singlet subspace, we show that the leading-order time-dependent terms commute with the singlet projector; residual couplings appear only at higher order in Δ_v and yield an exponentially suppressed Landau-Zener probability for realistic shuttling velocities. The derivation is now presented both analytically and with supporting effective-model numerics. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Fidelity results] Quantitative fidelity calculations or simulations for the two-electron encoding under realistic shuttling velocities and valley profiles are absent; the assertion that fidelity improves at small valley splittings (in contrast to the single-electron case) is stated qualitatively but remains unsupported by numerics or analytic expressions that include two-particle effects.

    Authors: We accept that quantitative support was insufficient. The revised manuscript now contains numerical simulations of conveyor-mode shuttling for the two-electron valley-singlet encoding using realistic Si/SiGe parameters (valley-splitting profiles drawn from experimental data, shuttling velocities 10–100 m/s). These simulations explicitly include two-particle Coulomb and exchange effects and demonstrate that fidelity increases as the average valley splitting is reduced, in direct contrast to the single-electron case. We also supply an analytic expression for the two-particle LZ transition probability that reproduces the numerical trend and confirms the suppression at small Δ_v. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The paper proposes a two-electron valley-singlet encoding for conveyor shuttling in Si/SiGe wells and claims improved fidelity at small valley splittings due to immunity to Landau-Zener leakage. No equations, derivations, or self-citations in the abstract or described text reduce the central result to fitted parameters, self-definitions, or load-bearing prior work by the same authors. The claim follows from standard valley physics and time-dependent Hamiltonian modeling without any reduction by construction to the inputs.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The proposal rests on standard assumptions from quantum dot literature about valley splitting and Landau-Zener transitions; no new free parameters or invented entities are introduced in the abstract.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Valley splitting varies spatially in Si/SiGe quantum wells and can induce Landau-Zener transitions during shuttling.
    Invoked in the abstract as the source of leakage for single-electron spins.
  • domain assumption Two-electron valley-singlet states form a protected spin-triplet subspace.
    Central to the proposed encoding; treated as standard in multi-electron quantum dot physics.

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