Quantum Computation Using Action Variables

Abstract

Recently, Lloyd and Montangero have made a brief research proposal on universal quantum computation in integrable systems. The main idea is to encode qubits into quantum action variables and build up quantum gates by the method of resonant control. We study this proposal to argue quantum computation using action variables as fault-tolerant quantum computation, whose fault-tolerance is guaranteed by the quantum KAM theorem. Besides, we view the Birkhoff norm form as a mathematical framework of the extended harmonic oscillator quantum computation.