Introduction to Grassmann Manifolds and Quantum Computation

Geometrical aspects of quantum computing are reviewed elementarily for non-experts and/or graduate students who are interested in both Geometry and Quantum Computation. In the first half we show how to treat Grassmann manifolds which are very important examples of manifolds in Mathematics and Physics. Some of their applications to Quantum Computation and its efficiency problems are shown in the second half. An interesting current topic of Holonomic Quantum Computation is also covered. In the Appendix some related advanced topics are discussed.Comment: Latex File, 28 pages, corrected considerably in the process of refereeing. to appear in Journal of Applied Mathematic

Geometric Quantum Computation on Solid-State Qubits

An adiabatic cyclic evolution of control parameters of a quantum system ends up with a holonomic operation on the system, determined entirely by the geometry in the parameter space. The operation is given either by a simple phase factor (a Berry phase) or a non-Abelian unitary operator depending on the degeneracy of the eigenspace of the Hamiltonian. Geometric quantum computation is a scheme to use such holonomic operations rather than the conventional dynamic operations to manipulate quantum states for quantum information processing. Here we propose a geometric quantum computation scheme which can be realized with current technology on nanoscale Josephson-junction networks, known as a promising candidate for solid-state quantum computer.Comment: 6 figures; to appear in J. Phys.: Condens. Mat

Geometric Quantum Computation

We describe in detail a general strategy for implementing a conditional geometric phase between two spins. Combined with single-spin operations, this simple operation is a universal gate for quantum computation, in that any unitary transformation can be implemented with arbitrary precision using only single-spin operations and conditional phase shifts. Thus quantum geometrical phases can form the basis of any quantum computation. Moreover, as the induced conditional phase depends only on the geometry of the paths executed by the spins it is resilient to certain types of errors and offers the potential of a naturally fault-tolerant way of performing quantum computation.Comment: 15 pages, LaTeX, uses cite, eepic, epsfig, graphicx and amsfonts. Accepted by J. Mod. Op

Physics of computation and light sheet concept in the measurement of (4+n)-dimensional spacetime geometry

We analyze the limits that quantum mechanics imposes on the accuracy to which $(4+n)$-dimensional spacetime geometry can be measured. Using physics of computation and light sheet concept we derive explicit expressions for quantum fluctuations and explore their cumulative effects for various spacetime foam models.Comment: 5 page