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arXiv:0910.5694 · Physical Review Letters

Comment on “Nongeometric Conditional Phase Shift via Adiabatic Evolution of Dark Eigenstates: A New Approach to Quantum Computation”

Ognyan Oreshkov, John Calsamiglia

Published Oct 29, 2009• 1 citation
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Abstract

In [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 080502 (2005)], Zheng proposed a scheme for implementing a conditional phase shift via adiabatic passages. The author claims that the gate is "neither of dynamical nor geometric origin" on the grounds that the Hamiltonian does not follow a cyclic change. He further argues that "in comparison with the adiabatic geometric gates, the nontrivial cyclic loop is unnecessary, and thus the errors in obtaining the required solid angle are avoided, which makes this new kind of phase gates superior to the geometric gates." In this Comment, we point out that geometric operations, including adiabatic holonomies, can be induced by noncyclic Hamiltonians, and show that Zheng's gate is geometric. We also argue that the nontrivial loop responsible for the phase shift is there, and it requires the same precision as in any adiabatic geometric gate.

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10.1103/physrevlett.103.188901

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In a recent letter [Phy. Rev. Lett. 95, 080502 (2005)], it is claimed that based on a new kind of quantum mechanical phase of wave function which is neither dynamical nor geometrical a new kind of phase gate for quantum computation is discovered. The origin of this phase is the adiabatic evolution of a dark state. I would like to point out that these claims are questionable. The so called new phase gate was based on a phase which was nothing new but has been known for decades. It is something which has no physical meaning and is not observable. It was also pointed out by [quant-ph/0509150v1] that [Phy. Rev. Lett. 95, 080502 (2005)] was incorrect and the phase is the known geometric phase. Here we present a totally different argument.
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While most approaches to geometric quantum computation are based on geometric phases in cyclic evolution, noncyclic geometric gates have been proposed to increase further the flexibility. While these gates remove the dynamical phase of the computational basis, they do not, in general, remove it from the eigenstates of the time evolution operator, which makes the geometric nature of the gates ambiguous. Here, we resolve this ambiguity by proposing a scheme for genuinely noncyclic geometric gates. These gates are obtained by evolving the computational basis along open paths consisting of geodesic segments, and simultaneously assuring that no dynamical phase is acquired by the eigenstates of the time evolution operator. While we illustrate the scheme for the simplest nontrivial case of two geodesic segments starting at each computational basis state of a single qubit, the scheme can be straightforwardly extended to more elaborate paths, more qubits, or even qudits.
Fast and robust quantum gates are the cornerstones of fault-tolerance quantum computation. In this paper, as opposed to the previous proposals which use cyclic geometric phases, we propose to realize quantum computation based on noncyclic geometric evolution. The superiority of the noncyclic scheme is that the operation time is proportional to the rotation angle of the quantum state. Therefore, the noncyclic scheme becomes fairly fast in the case of quantum gates with small rotation angle, which will be more insensitive to the decoherence and the leakage to the states outside the computational basis. Similar to the cyclic version of geometric quantum computation, dynamical phases here during the evolution are canceled by spin-echo process and the adiabatic control can be sped up through shortcut to adiabaticity. The proposed scheme is robust against random noise due to the geometric characteristic of projective Hilbert space. Since the proposed scheme is fast and robust, it is a particularly suitable way to manipulate the physical systems with weak nonlinearity, such as superconducting systems.