Proposed real-time charge noise measurement via valley state reflectometry

Abstract

We theoretically propose a method to perform in situ measurements of charge noise during logical operations in silicon quantum dot spin qubits. Our method does not require ancillary spectator qubits but makes use of the valley degree of freedom in silicon. Sharp interface steps or alloy disorder in the well provide a valley transition dipole element that couples to the field of an on-chip microwave resonator, allowing rapid reflectometry of valley splitting fluctuations caused by charge noise. We derive analytic expressions for the signal-to-noise ratio that can be expected and use tight binding simulations to extract the key parameters (valley splitting and valley dipole elements) under realistic disorder. We find that unity signal-to-noise ratio can often be obtained with measurement times below 1ms, faster than typical decoherence times, opening the potential for closed-loop control, real-time recalibration, and feedforward circuits