Why study geometric phase? It is an interesting phenomenon of Quantum mechanics, which can be observed in many physical systems It has interesting properties that can be exploited to increase the robustness of Quantum Computation Geometric Quantum Computation6 Why study geometric phase? • It is an interesting phenomenon of Quantum mechanics, which can be observed in many physical systems... • It has interesting properties that can be exploited to increase the robustness of Quantum Computation: “Geometric Quantum Computation