Gapped two-body hamiltonian whose unique ground state is universal for one-way quantum computation

Phys Rev Lett. 2009 Jun 5;102(22):220501. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.220501. Epub 2009 Jun 5.

Abstract

Many-body entangled quantum states studied in condensed matter physics can be primary resources for quantum information, allowing any quantum computation to be realized using measurements alone, on the state. Such a universal state would be remarkably valuable, if only it were thermodynamically stable and experimentally accessible, by virtue of being the unique ground state of a physically reasonable Hamiltonian made of two-body, nearest-neighbor interactions. We introduce such a state, composed of six-state particles on a hexagonal lattice, and describe a general method for analyzing its properties based on its projected entangled pair state representation.