arXiv:quant-ph/0412095 · International Journal of Quantum Information

UNIVERSAL QUANTUM GATE, YANG–BAXTERIZATION AND HAMILTONIAN

Yong Zhang, Louis Hirsch Kauffman, Mo‐Lin Ge

Published Dec 1, 2005• 91 citations

Abstract

It is fundamental to view unitary braiding operators describing topological entanglements as universal quantum gates for quantum computation. This paper derives a unitary solution of the quantum Yang–Baxter equation via Yang–Baxterization and constructs the Hamiltonian responsible for the time-evolution of the unitary braiding operator.

DOI: 10.1142/s0219749905001547

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