Effect of electron-nuclear spin interactions on electron-spin qubits localized in self-assembled quantum dots

Abstract

The effect of electron-nuclear spin interactions on qubit operations is investigated for a qubit represented by the spin of an electron localized in a self-assembled quantum dot. The localized electron wave function is evaluated within the atomistic tight-binding model. The magnetic field generated by the nuclear spins is estimated in the presence of an inhomogeneous environment characterized by a random nuclear spin configuration, by the dot-size distribution, by alloy disorder, and by interface disorder. Due to these inhomogeneities, the magnitude of the nuclear magnetic field varies from one qubit to another by the order of 100 G, 100 G, 10 G, and 0.1 G, respectively. The fluctuation of the magnetic field causes errors in exchange operations due to the inequality of the Zeeman splitting between two qubits. We show that the errors can be made lower than the quantum error threshold if an exchange energy larger than 0.1 meV is used for the operation.