High-fidelity universal quantum gates through group-symmetrized rapid passage

Twisted rapid passage is a type of non-adiabatic rapid passage that generates controllable quantum interference effects that were first observed experimentally in 2003. It is shown that twisted rapid passage sweeps can be used to implement a universal set of quantum gates that operate with high-fidelity. The gate set consists of the Hadamard and NOT gates, together with variants of the phase, pi/8, and controlled-phase gates. For each gate g in the universal set, sweep parameter values are provided which numerical simulations indicate will produce a unitary operation that approximates g with error probability less than 10**(-4). Note that all gates in the universal set are implemented using a single family of control-field, and the error probability for each gate falls below the rough-and-ready estimate for the accuracy threshold of 10**(-4).