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High-fidelity geometric quantum gates exceeding 99.9% in germanium quantum dots

Achieving high-fidelity and robust qubit manipulations is a crucial requirement for realizing faulttolerant quantum computation.

By Zhou, Ma, Kong +11

Score█████░░░░░4.8

Key numbers

  • 99.88% for the I
  • 99% across a wide range
  • 99% even when detuning the

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Abstract

Achieving high-fidelity and robust qubit manipulations is a crucial requirement for realizing faulttolerant quantum computation. Here, we demonstrate a single-hole spin qubit in a germanium quantum dot and characterize its control fidelity using gate set tomography. The maximum control fidelities reach 97.48%, 99.81%, 99.88% for the I, X/2 and Y /2 gate, respectively. These results reveal that off-resonance noise during consecutive I gates in gate set tomography sequences severely limits qubit performance. Therefore, we introduce geometric quantum computation to realize noiseresilient qubit manipulation. The geometric gate control fidelities remain above 99% across a wide range of Rabi frequencies. The maximum fidelity surpasses 99.9%. Furthermore, the fidelities of geometric X/2 and Y /2 (I) gates exceed 99% even when detuning the microwave frequency by +-2.5 MHz (+-1.2 MHz), highlighting the noise-resilient feature. These results demonstrate that geometric quantum computation is a potential method for achieving high-fidelity qubit manipulation reproducibly in semiconductor quantum computation.

Yu-Chen Zhou, Rong-Long Ma, Zhenzhen Kong, Ao-Ran Li, Chengxian Zhang, Xin Zhang, Yang Liu, Hao-Tian Jiang, Zhi-Tao Wu, Gui-Lei Wang, Gang Cao, Guang-Can Guo, Hai-Ou Li, Guo-Ping Guo

The editor's rubric

Heuristic review

DimensionLevelWeightWhat that level means
Leverage███░░ 318%A method or resource many groups across the field will adopt within a year.
Magnitude███░░ 320%Large gain: roughly 2x, or a clear new state of the art on a hard, unsaturated problem.
Evidence███░░ 322%Solid: multiple benchmarks or cohorts, ablations, fair baselines, released code or data.
Novelty██░░░ 222%A new combination of known ideas.
Trajectory██░░░ 210%Some room to improve with obvious engineering.
Stakes██░░░ 28%Benefits a professional community (practitioners, clinicians, engineers).

Editor’s rationale

Heuristic triage from title and abstract text only, not a reading of the paper. Cues found: method (we propose, we report); breadth (wide range); gains (outperforms).

How the score was computed

rank-2026-09-29

Score█████░░░░░4.8

Score = 10 × (75% × adjusted merit / 10 + 15% × attention + 10% × freshness)

Merit
5.2 / 10
Weighted rubric, evidence-gated.
Adjusted merit
4.5 / 10
Shrunk toward the desk prior by editor confidence (38%).
Attention
49%
Citations, upvotes, points, mentions.
Freshness
73%
Half-life decay since publication.
  • Citations19 (reference 20, via semantic-scholar, Sep 29, 2026, 23:37 UTC)

The record

  • Reviewed by heuristic-v2 on Sep 29, 2026, 23:53 UTC. Paper type: method.
  • Categories: quant-ph, cond-mat.mes-hall
  • TOP, No.1 in the Physics edition of September 30, 2026.
  • LEAD, No.1 in the Physics edition of September 29, 2026.