Exact solutions of the isoholonomic problem and the optimal control problem in holonomic quantum computation

Abstract

The isoholonomic problem in a homogeneous bundle is formulated and solved exactly. The problem takes a form of a boundary value problem of a variational equation. The solution is applied to the optimal control problem in holonomic quantum computer. We provide a prescription to construct an optimal controller for an arbitrary unitary gate and apply it to a $k$-dimensional unitary gate which operates on an $N$-dimensional Hilbert space with $N\ge 2k$. Our construction is applied to several important unitary gates such as the Hadamard gate, the CNOT gate, and the two-qubit discrete Fourier transformation gate. Controllers for these gates are explicitly constructed.

19 pages, no figures, LaTeX2e