Scalable quantum control and non-Abelian anyon creation in the Kitaev honeycomb model

The Kitaev honeycomb model is a system allowing for experimentally realizable quantum computation with topological protection of quantum information. Practical implementation of quantum information processing typically relies on adiabatic, i.e., slow dynamics. Here we show that the restriction to adiabatic dynamics can be overcome with optimal control theory, enabled by an extension of the fermionization of the Kitaev honeycomb model to the time-dependent case. Moreover, we present a quantum control method that is applicable to large lattice models due to subexponential scaling.