Observation of Interface Piezoelectricity in Superconducting Devices on Silicon

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10626v1
• Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:00:48 GMT
• Title: Observation of Interface Piezoelectricity in Superconducting Devices on Silicon
• Authors: Haoxin Zhou, Eric Li, Kadircan Godeneli, Zi-Huai Zhang, Shahin Jahanbani, Kangdi Yu, Mutasem Odeh, Shaul Aloni, Sinéad Griffin, Alp Sipahigil,
• Abstract summary: Piezoelectric interactions contribute to decoherence by mediating energy exchange between microwave photons and acoustic phonons. Centrosymmetric materials like silicon and sapphire do not display piezoelectricity and are the preferred substrates for superconducting qubits. We report the observation of interface piezoelectricity at an aluminum-Silicon junction and show that it constitutes an important loss channel for superconducting devices.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The evolution of superconducting quantum processors is driven by the need to reduce errors and scale for fault-tolerant computation. Reducing physical qubit error rates requires further advances in the microscopic modeling and control of decoherence mechanisms in superconducting qubits. Piezoelectric interactions contribute to decoherence by mediating energy exchange between microwave photons and acoustic phonons. Centrosymmetric materials like silicon and sapphire do not display piezoelectricity and are the preferred substrates for superconducting qubits. However, the broken centrosymmetry at material interfaces may lead to piezoelectric losses in qubits. While this loss mechanism was predicted two decades ago, interface piezoelectricity has not been experimentally observed in superconducting devices. Here, we report the observation of interface piezoelectricity at an aluminum-silicon junction and show that it constitutes an important loss channel for superconducting devices. We fabricate aluminum interdigital surface acoustic wave transducers on silicon and demonstrate piezoelectric transduction from room temperature to millikelvin temperatures. We find an effective electromechanical coupling factor of $K^2\approx 2 \times 10^{-5}\%$ comparable to weakly piezoelectric substrates. We model the impact of the measured interface piezoelectric response on superconducting qubits and find that the piezoelectric surface loss channel limits qubit quality factors to $Q\sim10^4-10^8$ for designs with different surface participation ratios and electromechanical mode matching. These results identify electromechanical surface losses as a significant dissipation channel for superconducting qubits, and show the need for heterostructure and phononic engineering to minimize errors in next-generation superconducting qubits.

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