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Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Non Abelian Phases, Charge Pumping and Holonomic Computation with Josephson Junctions

Lara Faoro, Jens Siewert, Rosario Fazio

Published Jan 3, 2003• 3 citations
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Abstract

In 1984 Berry pointed out that abelian gauge structures exist naturally in slowly varying quantum system. Since then, a great deal of interest both theoretically and experimentally has been devoted to the interpretation, generalization and detection of geometric phases. In particular, relevant for the present work, it has been shown that a non-Abelian gauge structure emerges if a set of quantum states remains degenerate as the Hamiltonian varies. Non-Abelian phases have been originally investigated in Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance. More recently, they have found a renewed interest within the field of Quantum Computation, since it has been proved that quantum gates can be also implemented by geometrical means using both Abelian and non-Abelian phases. In this novel geometric approach, known as Holonomic Quantum Computation (HQC), information is encoded in a degenerate eigenspace of a parametric family of Hamiltonians and the computational network of unitary quantum gates is realized by driving adiabatically the Hamiltonian parameters along loops in a control manifold. By properly designing such loops, the non trivial curvature of the geometry of the control manifold gives rise to unitary transformations, i.e. holonomies, that implement desired quantum gates. Until now only one scheme has been proposed to realize HQC in trapped ions by means of pulsed coherent excitations. On the other hand, it would be of great interest to have an implementation for solid-state systems, in view of their scalability and integrability. In particular, the impressing development of nanotechnologies with the consequent control of artificial two-level system in superconducting devices stimulates a more detailed investigation of geometric interference in mesoscopic systems. Here we show that non-Abelian phases can appear in the quantum charge dynamics of Josephson networks. Besides their possible detection, we shall see how they may be employed both in adiabatic charge pumping and as an implementation of HQC with Josephson junctions. 2. Josephson network for non abelian phases

DOI
10.1143/jpsjs.72sa.3

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In the holonomic approach to quantum computation, information is encoded in a degenerate eigenspace of a parametric family of Hamiltonians and manipulated by the associated holonomic gates. These are realized in terms of the non-Abelian Berry connection and are obtained by driving the control parameters along adiabatic loops. We show how it is possible for a specific model to explicitly determine the loops generating any desired logical gate, thus producing a universal set of unitary transformations. In a multipartite system unitary transformations can be implemented efficiently by sequences of local holonomic gates. Moreover, a conceptual scheme for obtaining the required Hamiltonian family, based on frequently repeated pulses, is discussed, together with a possible process whereby the initial state can be prepared and the final one can be measured.
Holonomic Quantum Computation (HQC) is an all-geometrical approach to quantum information processing. In the HQC strategy information is encoded in degenerate eigen-spaces of a parametric family of Hamiltonians. The computational network of unitary quantum gates is realized by driving adiabatically the Hamiltonian parameters along loops in a control manifold. By properly designing such loops the nontrivial curvature of the underlying bundle geometry gives rise to unitary transformations i.e., holonomies that implement the desired unitary transformations. Conditions necessary for universal QC are stated in terms of the curvature associated to the non-abelian gauge potential (connection) over the control manifold. In view of their geometrical nature the holonomic gates are robust against several kind of perturbations and imperfections. This fact along with the adiabatic fashion in which gates are performed makes in principle HQC an appealing way towards universal fault-tolerant QC.
We show that the notion of generalized Berry phase i.e., non-abelian holonomy, can be used for enabling quantum computation. The computational space is realized by a nnn-fold degenerate eigenspace of a family of Hamiltonians parametrized by a manifold calM\\cal McalM. The point of calM\\cal McalM represents classical configuration of control fields and, for multi-partite systems, couplings between subsystem. Adiabatic loops in the control manifold calM\\cal McalM induce non trivial unitary transformations on the computational space. For a generic system it is shown that this mechanism allows for universal quantum computation by composing a generic pair of loops in calM.\\cal M.calM.
Calculation aspects of holonomic quantum computer (HQC) are considered. Wilczek–Zee potential defining the set of quantum calculations for HQC is explicitly evaluated. Principal possibility of realization of the logical gates for this case is discussed. The conception of quantum computer (QC) and quantum calculation developed in 80-th [1]–[2] were found to be fruitful both for computer science and mathematics as well as for physics [3]. Although a device being able to perform quantum calculations is far away from practical realization, there is a number of theoretical proposals of such a construct [4]–[16]. Recently holonomic realization of QC was proposed [17],[18]. It is based on the notion of non-Abelian Berry phase[19].To perform quantum computations in this approach one needs a parametrically driven quantum system described by the Hamiltonian H(λ) with adiabatically evolving parameters λ(t) = (λ1(t),..., λN(t)). Adiabaticity means that Ω ≪ ωmin where Ω is the characteristic frequency in the Fourier spectrum of λ(t) and ωmin is the minimal transition frequency in the spectrum
Holonomic quantum computing functions by transporting an adiabatically degenerate manifold of computational states around a closed loop in a control-parameter space; this cyclic evolution results in a non-Abelian geometric phase which may couple states within the manifold. Realizing the required degeneracy is challenging and typically requires auxiliary levels or intermediate-level couplings. One potential way to circumvent this is through Floquet engineering, where the periodic driving of a nondegenerate Hamiltonian leads to degenerate Floquet bands, and subsequently non-Abelian gauge structures may emerge. Here we present an experiment in ultracold Rb87 atoms where atomic spin states are dressed by modulated RF fields to induce periodic driving of a family of Hamiltonians linked through a fully tuneable parameter space. The adiabatic motion through this parameter space leads to the holonomic evolution of the degenerate spin states in SU(2) , characterized by a non-Abelian connection. We study the holonomic transformations of spin eigenstates in the presence of a background magnetic field, characterizing the fidelity of these single-qubit gate operations. Results indicate that while the Floquet engineering technique removes the need for explicit degeneracies, it inherits many of the same limitations present in degenerate systems. Published by the American Physical Society 2024