Impact of gate-voltage noise on silicon spin-qubit variational quantum eigensolvers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.08874v1
• Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:00:55 GMT
• Title: Impact of gate-voltage noise on silicon spin-qubit variational quantum eigensolvers
• Abstract summary: We develop a hardware-algorithm co-simulation framework for silicon quantum-dot processors.<n>We show that tunable exchange-based two-qubit gates are roughly an order of magnitude more sensitive to noise than ESR-driven single-qubit rotations.
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• Abstract: Quantum computers offer a route to outperform classical methods in tasks such as molecular simulation, motivating hybrid algorithms like the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) for near-term devices. Silicon spin qubits are a promising platform for scalable quantum computation, but their performance is limited by hardware imperfections -- most notably charge-noise-induced potential fluctuations and static miscalibration of gate-electrode voltages -- which degrade quantum gate fidelities and, ultimately, algorithmic accuracy. Here we develop a hardware-algorithm co-simulation framework for silicon quantum-dot processors that links 3D electrostatics to effective $g$-factors and exchange couplings, and propagates voltage-level noise through realistic control pulses. Using VQE for $\mathrm{H}_2$ ground-state energy estimation as a circuit-level testbed, we study both static scaling/offset errors on the gate-electrode voltages and stochastic fluctuations modeled as random-telegraph noise with tunable amplitudes and switching times. At the gate level, we show that exchange-based two-qubit gates are roughly an order of magnitude more sensitive to these types of noise than ESR-driven single-qubit rotations. Quantum process tomography and Kraus-operator analysis further distinguish coherent and incoherent contributions and quantify the fraction of error that is, in principle, correctable by a compensating unitary. Embedding these noise models into the VQE circuit, we identify regimes of miscalibration strength and noise switching time compatible with chemically accurate energy estimates, and discuss how statistical post-processing based on the full distribution of noisy energy estimates could further improve accuracy.

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