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.
Recently, geometric phases, which is fault tolerate to certain errors intrinsically due to its geometric property, are getting considerable attention in quantum computing theoretically. So far, only one experiment about adiabatic geometric gate with NMR through Berry phase has been reported. However, there are two drawbacks in it. First, the adiabatic condition of Berry phase makes such gate very slowly. Second, the extra operation to eliminate the dynamic phase. As we know, geometric phase can exist both adiabatic(Berry phase) and nonadiabatic(Aharonov-Anandan phase). In this letter, we reports the first experimental realization of nonadiabatic geometric gate with NMR through conditional-AA phase. In our experiment the gates can be made faster and more easily, and the two drawbacks mentioned above are removed.
We introduce the nonadiabatic, or Aharonov-Anandan, geometric phase as a tool for quantum computation and show how this phase on one qubit can be monitored by a second qubit without any dynamical contribution. We also discuss how this geometric phase could be implemented with superconducting charge qubits. While the nonadiabatic geometric phase may circumvent many of the drawbacks related to the adiabatic (Berry) version of geometric gates, we show that the effect of fluctuations of the control parameters on nonadiabatic phase gates is more severe than for the standard dynamic gates. Similarly, fluctuations also affect to a greater extent quantum gates that use the Berry phase instead of the dynamic phase.
Implementing quantum gates as non-Abelian holonomies, a class of topologically protected unitary operators, is a particularly promising paradigm for the design of intrinsically stable quantum computers [1]. In contrast to dynamic phases, the geometric phase accumulated by a quantum system propagating through a Hilbert space
Hdepends exclusively on its path. In general, geometric phases can exhibit arbitrary dimensionality. Wilczek and Zee introduced the idea of multi-dimensional, non-Abelian geometric phases - so called holonomies [2]. Anandan later dropped the requirement of adiabaticity to create holonomies, that are truly time-independent [3]. Non-adiabatic holonomies rely on a subspace
Hgeoof the Hilbert-space that is spanned by states
{∣Φk⟩}kthat fulfill
(Φk∣H^∣Φj⟩=0, where
H^is the system's Hamiltonian. Restricting the propagation to
Hgeoensures parallel transport and, thus, a purely geometric phase (see Fig. 1a) [4], [5]. Quantum optics constitutes a particularly versatile platform for quantum information processing, and in particular for the construction of non-adiabatic holonomic quantum computers: In addition to integration and miniaturization provided by the platform, the bosonic nature of photons also conveniently allows for multiple excitations of the same mode, readily expanding
Hgeoand enabling the synthesis of holonomies from higher symmetry groups
U(N)as larger and more capable computational units [6], [7].
Geometric quantum phases enable the construction geometric quantum gates, whose action only depend on the evolution path in state space. Geometric gates may offer increased robustness to control parameter noise. In this report, the conditions under which non-adiabatic geometric and holonomic quantum gates preserve their geometric character under sequential composition are analysed. Grover’s search algorithm requiring non-commuting operations is used as a representative example. The basic concepts of qubits, quantum gates and quantum circuits are explained. The concept of geometric phases is introduced and derivations of Abelian and non-Abelian non-adiabatic geometric phases are provided (Aharonov-Anandan and Anandan phase respectively). Construction of geometric and holonomic universal quantum gate sets with the aforementioned geometric phases are briefly described.Explicit calculation of two non-commuting Abelian and non-adiabatic geometric time evolutions show that the successively combined operation is not geometric. A proof of successive combinations of non-Abelian and non-adiabatic geometric time evolutions preserving their non-adiabatic Abelian and geometric properties is given. The report concludes that it is in general not possible to perform quantum circuits completely geometrically with a geometric universal quantum gate set. However, performing quantum computations with gates from a holonomic universal gate set is geometric and holonomic throughout the computation.