In the quantum-computation scenario, the geometric phase gates are becoming increasingly attractive for their intrinsic fault tolerance to disturbance. With an adiabatic cyclic evolution, Berry phase appears to realize a geometric transformation. Performing the quantum gates as many as possible within the timescale of coherence, however, remains an inconvenient bottleneck due to the systematic errors. Here we propose an accelerated adiabatic quantum gate based on the Berry phase, the transitionless driving, and the dynamical decoupling. It reconciles a high fidelity with a high speed in the presence of control noise or imperfection. We optimize the dynamical-decoupling sequence in the time domain under a popular Gaussian noise spectrum following the inversely quadratic power law.
In the quantum-computation scenario, the geometric phase gates are becoming increasingly attractive for their intrinsic fault tolerance to disturbance. With an adiabatic cyclic evolution, Berry phase appears to realize a geometric transformation. Performing the quantum gates as many as possible within the timescale of coherence, however, remains an inconvenient bottleneck due to the systematic errors. Here we propose an accelerated adiabatic quantum gate based on the Berry phase, the transitionless driving, and the dynamical decoupling. It reconciles a high fidelity with a high speed in the presence of control noise or imperfection. We optimize the dynamical-decoupling sequence in the time domain under a popular Gaussian noise spectrum following the inversely quadratic power law.
A practical quantum computer must be capable of performing high fidelity quantum gates on a set of quantum bits (qubits). In the presence of noise, the realization of such gates poses daunting challenges. Geometric phases, which possess intrinsic noise-tolerant features, hold the promise for performing robust quantum computation. In particular, quantum holonomies, i.e., non-Abelian geometric phases, naturally lead to universal quantum computation due to their non-commutativity. Although quantum gates based on adiabatic holonomies have already been proposed, the slow evolution eventually compromises qubit coherence and computational power. Here, we propose a general approach to speed up an implementation of adiabatic holonomic gates by using transitionless driving techniques and show how such a universal set of fast geometric quantum gates in a superconducting circuit architecture can be obtained in an all-geometric approach. Compared with standard non-adiabatic holonomic quantum computation, the holonomies obtained in our approach tends asymptotically to those of the adiabatic approach in the long run-time limit and thus might open up a new horizon for realizing a practical quantum computer.
We propose a novel method for constructing geometric quantum gates using three- or two-level systems, in which a controllable variable, the detuning between the driving frequency and the atomic energy spacing, is introduced to realize geometric transformations. In particular, we have two instantaneous eigenstates with opposite eigenvalues constituting a closed loop in the parameter space. The accumulated dynamical phase is then exactly cancelled when the loop is completed, which is beyond the traditional parallel-transport restriction. We apply the transitionless quantum driving method to enhance the speed and fidelity of geometric gates. Gate fidelity in the presence of decoherence is also estimated.
Geometric phase is a promising element to induce high-fidelity and robust quantum operations due to its built-in noise-resilience feature. Unfortunately, its practical applications are usually circumscribed by requiring complex interactions among multiple levels or qubits and a longer gate time than the corresponding dynamical ones. Here, we propose a general framework of geometric quantum computation with the integration of the time-optimal control technique, where the shortest smooth geometric path is found to realize accelerated geometric quantum gates and thus greatly decreases the gate errors induced by both the decoherence effect and operational imperfections. Meanwhile, we faithfully implement our idea on a scalable platform of a two-dimensional superconducting transmon-qubit lattice, with simple and experimentally accessible interactions. In addition, numerical simulations show that our implemented geometric gates possess higher fidelities and stronger robustness, which outperform the best performance of the corresponding dynamical ones. Therefore, our scheme provides a promising alternative route toward scalable fault-tolerant solid-state quantum computation.
Geometrical phases acquired in cyclic quantum evolutions can be utilized as
natural resources for constructing robust logic gates for quantum information
processing, which was originally proposed through adiabatic changes of the
driving Hamiltonian. Practically, much efforts have been made to shorten the
construction times of geometrical gates, known as non-adiabatic holonomic
quantum computation (NHQC). However, previous NHQC gates require the driving
Hamiltonian to satisfy a set of rather restrictive conditions, reducing the
robustness of the resulting geometric gates against control errors. Here we
show that non-adiabatic geometric gates can be constructed in an alternative
way where the driving Hamiltonian can exhibit a high degree of flexibility for
retaining the robustness of the geometric phases. Consequently, this approach
makes it possible to incorporate most of the existing optimal control methods,
such as dynamical decoupling, composite pulses, and shortcut to adiabaticity,
into the construction of geometrical gates, to further address different types
of errors. Furthermore, this extensible approach of geometric quantum
computation can be applied to various physical platform such as superconducting
qubits and nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers. Specifically, we performed numerical
simulation to show how the noise robustness in the recent experimental
implementations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 140503 (2017)] and [Nat. Photonics 11,
309 (2017)] of NHQC with NV centers can be significantly improved by our
optimized NHQC approach. These results cover a large class of new techniques
combing the noise robustness of both geometric phase and optimal control
theory.
Abstract Geometric quantum computation relies on the geometric phase that arises in adiabatic cyclic evolutions of non-degenerate quantum systems, enabling the design of robust quantum gates. However, the adiabatic condition requires long evolution times, making the system vulnerable to decoherence. In this work, we propose a scheme to realize fast and high-fidelity geometric quantum gates by applying the superadiabatic transitionless driving protocol within the dressed-state framework. We analyze the implementation of single-qubit gates in a two-level system driven by a microwave field, focusing in particular on the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond. We show how the dynamical phase can be canceled to obtain purely geometric operations. The robustness of the gates is assessed under systematic errors and environmental decoherence, demonstrating high fidelity even in regimes with strong fluctuations. Finally, we extend the protocol to construct nontrivial two-qubit gates, highlighting its feasibility for scalable quantum information processing.
Recently, it has been proposed to perform quantum computation through the Berry phase (adiabatic cyclic geometric phase) shift with NMR. This geometric quantum gate will hopefully be fault tolerant to certain types of error because of the geometric property of the Berry phase. Here we give a scheme to realize the NMR C-NOT gate through the Aharonov-Anandan phase (non-adiabatic cyclic phase) shift on the dynamic phase free evolution loop. In our scheme, the gate is run non-adiabatically, thus it is less affected by the decoherence. Moreover, in the scheme we have chosen the zero dynamic phase time evolution loop in obtaining the geometric phase shift; we need not perform any extra operation to cancel the dynamic phase.