Selective noise resistant gate

Realizing individual control on single qubits in a spin-based quantum register is an ever-increasing challenge due to the close proximity of the qubits' resonance frequencies. Current schemes typically suffer from an inherent trade-off between fidelity and qubits selectivity. Here, we report on a scheme which combines noise protection by dynamical decoupling and magnetic gradient based selectivity, to enhance both the fidelity and the selectivity. With a single nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond, we experimentally demonstrate quantum gates with fidelity = 0.9 +/- 0.02 and a 50 - kHz spectral bandwidth, which is almost an order of magnitude narrower than the unprotected bandwidth. Our scheme will enable selective control of an individual nitrogen-vacancy qubit in an interacting qubits array using relatively moderate gradients of about 1 mG/nm.