Noncyclic geometric quantum computation in a nuclear-magnetic-resonance system

A scheme is proposed to include both cyclic and noncyclic geometric quantum computations in nuclear-magnetic-resonance system by the invariant theory. By controlling magnetic field and arbitrary parameters in the invariant operator, the phases accumulated in the entangling quantum gates for single- and two-qubit systems are pure geometric phases. Thus, fault tolerance may occur in some critical magnetic field parameters for either cyclic or noncyclic evolution by differently choosing for gate time.