The method of iterated resolvents is used to obtain an effective Hamiltonian for neighboring qubits in the Kane solid-state quantum computer. In contrast to the adiabatic gate processes inherent in the Kane proposal we show that free evolution of the qubit-qubit system, as generated by this effective Hamiltonian, combined with single-qubit operations, is sufficient to produce a controlled-NOT gate. Thus the usual set of universal gates can be obtained on the Kane quantum computer without the need for adiabatic switching of the controllable parameters as prescribed by Kane [Nature (London) 393, 133 (1998)]. Both the fidelity and the gate time of this nonadiabatic controlled-NOT gate are determined by numerical simulation.

• Received 22 August 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.65.032303