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Nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computation in decoherence-free subspaces on Rydberg atoms

Ya Gao, Meng-Le Guo, Pei-Yao Song, Ji-Ze Han, Zhi-Guo Huang, Jin‐Lei Wu, Shi‐Lei Su

Published May 13, 2026• 0 citations
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Abstract We propose a scheme for realizing nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computation within a decoherence-free subspace using Rydberg atoms. By employing large-detuned lasers and the Rydberg antiblockade condition, we construct an effective Hamiltonian that couples logical states in a three-atom decoherence-free subspace while ensuring that the Rydberg states remain unpopulated. This approach significantly suppresses decoherence caused by atomic spontaneous emission and mitigates the mechanical effects and sensitivity to interatomic distance variations associated with Rydberg excitations. We demonstrate the realization of both conventional and single-loop single-logical-qubit holonomic gates with high fidelity. Furthermore, by utilizing an asymmetric encoding method, in which the control logical qubits employ Rydberg-state encoding to provide the required conditional blockade, we extend the scheme to construct universal two- and three-logical-qubit holonomic gates, offering a robust and scalable approach for quantum information processing.

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10.1088/1674-1056/ae6cce

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Abstract We propose a scheme for realizing nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computation within a decoherence-free subspace using Rydberg atoms. By employing large-detuned lasers and the Rydberg antiblockade condition, we construct an effective Hamiltonian that couples logical states in a three-atom decoherence-free subspace while ensuring that the Rydberg states remain unpopulated. This approach significantly suppresses decoherence caused by atomic spontaneous emission and mitigates the mechanical effects and sensitivity to interatomic distance variations associated with Rydberg excitations. We demonstrate the realization of both conventional and single-loop single-logical-qubit holonomic gates with high fidelity. Furthermore, by utilizing an asymmetric encoding method, in which the control logical qubits employ Rydberg-state encoding to provide the required conditional blockade, we extend the scheme to construct universal two- and three-logical-qubit holonomic gates, offering a robust and scalable approach for quantum information processing.
Quantum gates are crucial for quantum computation and quantum information processing. However, their effectiveness is often hindered by systematic errors and decoherence. Therefore, achieving resilient quantum gates to these factors is of great significance. We present a method to construct nonadiabatic holonomic single- and two-qubit gates in a Rydberg ground-state-blockade regime. Our approach utilizes a far-off-resonant technique for the single-qubit gate and a modified Rydberg antiblockade for the two-qubit gate. The reduction of the population of single- and two-excitation Rydberg states and the nonadiabatic holonomic process during the construction of the gates ensure robustness to decoherence and systematic errors, respectively. Numerical results demonstrate the fidelity and robustness of our scheme. The proposed scheme holds promise for future applications in quantum computation and quantum information processing tasks.
Control errors and decoherence are two main obstacles for realization of quantum computation. Nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computation in decoherence-free subspaces can protect quantum gates from both control errors and decoherence, and, therefore, it has received increasing attention. The original protocol of nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computation in decoherence-free subspaces needs two loops in the Grassmann manifold to generate an arbitrary nonadiabatic holonomic one-qubit gate. In this paper, we proposed a protocol of nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computation in decoherence-free subspaces, where an arbitrary one-qubit gate is generated by only a single loop in the Grassmann manifold and an entangling two-qubit gate assisted by two single-qubit gates can be used to construct a two-qubit controlled unitary gate. In addition, the encoding of our protocol for nonadiabatic holonomic gates requires a lower number of physical qubits compared with previous schemes. Our scheme not only maintains the merits of the original protocol but it also avoids the extra work of combining two gates to realize an arbitrary one-qubit gate.
Quantum computation that combines the coherence stabilization virtues of decoherence-free subspaces and the fault tolerance of geometric holonomic control is of great practical importance. Some schemes of adiabatic holonomic quantum computation in decoherence-free subspaces have been proposed in the past few years. However, nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computation in decoherence-free subspaces, which avoids a long run-time requirement but with all the robust advantages, remains an open problem. Here, we demonstrate how to realize nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computation in decoherence-free subspaces. By using only three neighboring physical qubits undergoing collective dephasing to encode one logical qubit, we realize a universal set of quantum gates.
We achieve the robust nonadiabatic holonomic two-qubit controlled gate in one step based on the ground-state blockade mechanism between two Rydberg atoms. By using the Rydberg-blockade effect and the Raman transition mechanism, we can produce the blockade effect of double occupation of the corresponding ground state, i.e., ground-state blockade, to encode the computational subspace into the ground state, thus effectively avoiding the spontaneous emission of the excited Rydberg state. On the other hand, the feature of geometric quantum computation independent of the evolutionary details makes the scheme robust to control errors. In this way, the controlled quantum gate constructed by our scheme not only greatly reduces the gate infidelity caused by spontaneous emission but is also robust to control errors.
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Nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computation has received increasing attention due to its robustness against control errors as well as high-speed realization. Several schemes of its implementation have been put forward based on various physical systems, each of which has some particular merits. In this paper, we put forward an alternative scheme of nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computation, in which a universal set of quantum gates is realized based on Rydberg superatoms. A Rydberg superatom is a mesoscopic atomic ensemble that allows for only a single Rydberg excitation shared by many atoms within a blockade radius and can be used to generate the collective states to encode the qubits. In our scheme, the qubit is encoded into two collective ground states of Rydberg superatoms and the interaction between two long-range Rydberg superatoms is mediated by a microwave cavity with the aid of two additional collective Rydberg states. Different from the previous schemes, which are based on the systems in the microscope scale, the present scheme is based on atomic ensembles in the mesoscopic scale. Besides the common merits of nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computation such as the robustness and the speediness, the Rydberg-superatom-based scheme has the following particular merits: the long coherence time of Rydberg states and the operability of the mesoscopic systems.