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Topologically protected quantum gates for computation with non-Abelian anyons in the Pfaffian quantum Hall state

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2007-05-23 v3 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We extend the topological quantum computation scheme using the Pfaffian quantum Hall state, which has been recently proposed by Das Sarma et al., in a way that might potentially allow for the topologically protected construction of a universal set of quantum gates. We construct, for the first time, a topologically protected Controlled-NOT gate which is entirely based on quasihole braidings of Pfaffian qubits. All single-qubit gates, except for the pi/8 gate, are also explicitly implemented by quasihole braidings. Instead of the pi/8 gate we try to construct a topologically protected Toffoli gate, in terms of the Controlled-phase gate and CNOT or by a braid-group based Controlled-Controlled-Z precursor. We also give a topologically protected realization of the Bravyi-Kitaev two-qubit gate g_3.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0607125,
  title  = {Topologically protected quantum gates for computation with non-Abelian anyons in the Pfaffian quantum Hall state},
  author = {Lachezar S. Georgiev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0607125},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

6 pages, 7 figures, RevTeX; version 3: introduced section names, new reference added; new comment added about the embedding of the one- and two- qubit gates into a three-qubit system