title: Geometric manipulation of trapped ions for quantum computation.
abstract: We propose an experimentally feasible scheme to achieve quantum computation based solely on geometric manipulations of a quantum system. The desired geometric operations are obtained by driving the quantum system to undergo appropriate adiabatic cyclic evolutions. Our implementation of the all-geometric quantum computation is based on laser manipulation of a set of trapped ions. An all-geometric approach, apart from its fundamental interest, offers a possible method for robust quantum computation.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria. Luming.Duan@uibk.ac.at
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Duan
authors.forename: J I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Cirac
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zoller