Scheme for fault-tolerant holonomic computation on stabilizer codes

Ognyan Oreshkov, Todd A. Brun, and Daniel A. Lidar

Accepted Monday Jun 22, 2009

This paper generalizes and expands upon the work where we introduced a scheme for fault-tolerant holonomic quantum computation (HQC) on stabilizer codes. HQC is an all-geometric strategy based on non-Abelian adiabatic holonomies, which is known to be robust against various types of errors in the control parameters. The scheme we present shows that HQC is a scalable method of computation and opens the possibility for combining the benefits of error correction with the inherent resilience of the holonomic approach. We show that with the Bacon-Shor code the scheme can be implemented using Hamiltonian operators of weight 2 and 3.