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Visibility of noisy quantum dot-based measurements of Majorana qubits
by Aleksei Khindanov, Dmitry Pikulin, Torsten Karzig
Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Torsten Karzig · Aleksei Khindanov · Dmitry Pikulin |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11024v3 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | May 17, 2021 |
| Date submitted: | April 12, 2021, 7:04 a.m. |
| Submitted by: | Aleksei Khindanov |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Theoretical |
Abstract
Measurement schemes of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) based on quantum dots (QDs) are of current interest as they provide a scalable platform for topological quantum computation. In a coupled qubit-QD setup we calculate the dependence of the charge of the QD and its differential capacitance on experimentally tunable parameters for both 2-MZM and 4-MZM measurements. We quantify the effect of noise on the measurement visibility by considering $1/f$ noise in detuning, tunneling amplitudes or phase. We find that on- or close-to-resonance measurements are generally preferable and predict, using conservative noise estimates, that noise coupling to the QDs is not a limitation to high-fidelity measurements of topological qubits.
Author comments upon resubmission
List of changes
- Added reference [37, 48-50].
- On page 1, bottom of the left column, added description of what is meant by $\sigma_z$ and $\gamma_{i/j}$.
- On page 2, left column, second paragraph, added description of what is meant by "resonance" and "far-detuned regime".
- On page 2, paragraph after Eq.(2), explained in which case the regime of a single-level QD is appropriate.
- At the end of page 3, added a sentence describing implications of incorrect readout of the Majorana parity on quantum computation.
- On page 4, first full paragraph after Eq.(9), changed "single electron" to "single excess electron".
- On page 4, last paragraph in the left column, rephrased the first sentence such that it is more clear what is meant by "exponentially small" couplings.
- On page 5, first paragraph in the right column, added a sentence which describes the motivation for using $1/f$ noise model.
- At the end of page 5 and beginning of page 6, rewrote discussion on how we treat temperature when calculating expectation values.
- On page 6, paragraph after Eq.(19), added physical motivation for the higher frequency cutoff $\tau_c^{-1}$.
- On page 7, second paragraph in the left column, added reference to Appendix E.
- On page 7, second to last paragraph in the left column, added that the noise-induced term in $S_n$ is perturbative and description of what is meant by that.
- On page 7, first paragraph in the right column, described in more detail what is meant by "smaller coupling".
- Throughout page 7, changed notation from $\bar{t}-\to |\bar{t}-|$, $\bar{t}+\to |\bar{t}+|$, $\langle C_+\rangle\to C_{\text{diff},+}$ and $\langle n_+ \rangle\to \langle n_{\text{QD},+} \rangle$.
- Added Appendix F.
- On page 7, second paragraph in the right column, added reference to Appendix F.
- On page 8, first paragraph in the right column, clarified that the regime of small detunings optimizes the SNR only in the presence of external noise.
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