QUANTUM COMPUTER USING SWITCHABLE COUPLINGS BETWEEN LOGICAL QUBITS
Granted: May 23, 2024
Application Number:
20240171889
A fault-tolerant quantum computer using topological codes such as surface codes can have an architecture that reduces the amount of idle volume generated. The architecture can include qubit modules that generate surface code patches for different qubits and a network of interconnections between different qubit modules. The interconnections can include “port” connections that selectably enable coupling of boundaries of surface code patches generated in different qubit modules and/or…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION
Granted: May 16, 2024
Application Number:
20240163087
A method for quantum key distribution includes determining a ratio between a target maximum gain and a target operating gain of an optical amplifier; determining an active fiber section length such that the optical signals with a target maximum signal power are amplified with at most the target maximum gain; determining an operating pumping power of a pumping device below the maximum pumping power such that the optical signals are amplified with a target operating gain according to the…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENCODING A DATASET IN A QUANTUM CIRCUIT FOR QUANTUM MACHINE LEARNING
Granted: May 16, 2024
Application Number:
20240160986
A system and method for encoding a dataset in a quantum circuit for quantum machine learning in a system includes providing a dataset comprising a plurality of input features; for each input feature of the plurality of input features, applying the plurality of encoding quantum gates on one quantum bit (qubit) or a plurality of qubits, wherein each of the plurality of encoding quantum gates rotates the one qubit or the plurality of qubits by a rotation angle which is proportional to the…
METHOD FOR SOLVING MACHINE LEARNING PROBLEMS WITH HYBRID CLASSICAL-QUANTUM SOLVERS
Granted: May 16, 2024
Application Number:
20240160981
A method for training a hybrid quantum-classical computation system for approximating a labeling function for an input feature vector, the system comprising a variational quantum circuit, a machine learning model, and a labeling module configured to receive a first output generated by the variational quantum circuit and a second output generated by the machine learning model and to generate an output label, wherein the method comprises an iterative process comprising providing an input…
QUANTUM CIRCUIT COMPILATION METHOD, DEVICE, COMPILATION FRAMEWORK AND QUANTUM OPERATING SYSTEM
Granted: May 16, 2024
Application Number:
20240160977
Disclosed are a quantum circuit compilation methods, devices, compilation frameworks and a quantum operating system. An example method determines a topological structure of a target quantum chip and a supportable logic gate set according to a configuration file in the compilation instruction; invoking the circuit processing module to process a to-be-complied circuit so as to generate a first supportable circuit; invoking the topological mapping module to map the first supportable circuit…
PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS WITH CONTROLLABLE INTERFEROMETERS
Granted: May 16, 2024
Application Number:
20240160972
A method includes receiving a plurality of quantum systems, wherein each quantum system of the plurality of quantum system includes a plurality of quantum sub-systems in an entangled state, and wherein respective quantum systems of the plurality of quantum systems are independent quantum systems that are not entangled with one another. The method further includes performing a plurality of joint measurements on different quantum sub-systems from respective ones of the plurality of quantum…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTICAL SIGNAL AMPLIFICATION
Granted: May 16, 2024
Application Number:
20240160011
A system or a method for optical signal amplification includes determining a target operating gain of an optical amplifier; determining a target maximum gain of the optical amplifier; determining an active fiber section length such that the optical signals are amplified with at most the target maximum gain; determining a core cross-sectional area size of the active fiber section based on a maximum allowable pulse shape distortion and a target maximum energy per pulse such that…
SURFACE MODIFICATION IN THE VAPOR PHASE
Granted: May 16, 2024
Application Number:
20240157395
Aspects of the application provide methods of producing substrates having modified surfaces. In some aspects, methods of surface modification involve treating a surface of a substrate with an organic reagent in vapor phase to form an organic layer over the surface. In some aspects, methods of forming a stable surface coating on an oxidized surface are provided.
NOVEL HUMAN INTERLEUKIN-18 VARIANT AND USE THEREOF
Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number:
20240150421
A novel interleukin-18 (IL-18) variant and a pharmaceutical composition using the same, which relates to a human IL-18 variant including (i) mutations of cysteine at positions 38, 68, 76, and 127 into serine and (ii) mutations of glutamic acid at position 6 and lysine at position 53 into alanine relative to an amino acid sequence of wild-type human IL-18, where the variant further includes (iii) at least one additional mutation, and a pharmaceutical composition containing the human IL-18…
LUMINESCENTLY LABELED OLIGONUCLEOTIDE STRUCTURES AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS
Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number:
20240151729
Provided herein are luminescently labeled oligonucleotide structures, which may be used in systems and methods for polypeptide sequencing and/or nucleic acid sequencing.
OPTICAL NANOSTRUCTURE REJECTER FOR AN INTEGRATED DEVICE AND RELATED METHODS
Granted: May 2, 2024
Application Number:
20240142378
Apparatus and methods relating to photonic bandgap optical nanostructures are described. Such optical nanostructures may exhibit prohibited photonic bandgaps or allowed photonic bands, and may be used to reject (e.g., block or attenuate) radiation at a first wavelength while allowing transmission of radiation at a second wavelength. Examples of photonic bandgap optical nanostructures includes periodic and quasi-periodic structures, with periodicity or quasi-periodicity in one, two, or…
QUANTUM COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEM AND QUANTUM COMPUTER
Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number:
20240134711
Disclosed are a quantum computer operating system and a quantum computer. In the operating system, if the quantity of the free qubits on a certain chip in the quantum chip cluster is not less than the quantity required by the quantum computing task, selecting a first quantum bit whose reading fidelity is within a preset range from the free qubits and obtaining a nearby pair of quantum bits based on the community detection algorithm and the greedy algorithm, and combining them to form a…
CASCADED RESONATORS PHOTON PAIR SOURCE
Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number:
20240134248
A frequency conversion system includes a bus waveguide, a first pump laser coupled to the bus waveguide and characterized by a first frequency, a second pump laser coupled to the bus waveguide and characterized by a second frequency, an input light combining device coupled to the bus waveguide and configured to combine light from the first pump laser and the second pump laser to produce a combined light, and a plurality of optical resonators coupled to the bus waveguide. Each optical…
ACTIVE PHOTONIC DEVICES INCORPORATING HIGH DIELECTRIC CONSTANT MATERIALS
Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number:
20240134243
A waveguide structure includes a substrate and a waveguide core coupled to the substrate and including a first material characterized by a first index of refraction and a first electro-optic coefficient. The waveguide structure also includes a first cladding layer at least partially surrounding the waveguide core and including a second material characterized by a second index of refraction less than the first index of refraction and a second electro-optic coefficient greater than the…
Laser System and Method for Detecting and Processing Information
Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number:
20240130789
A laser system suitable for modification of a calcified blood vessel includes a laser source; a feedback controller configured to regulate a dosimetry of the laser source to produce spatially and/or temporally modulated laser light; a catheter comprising a first optical delivery element, the first optical delivery element configured to guide the modulated laser light to an in-vivo object in the blood vessel; and a detecting element, configured to detect one or more physical, chemical,…
MANAGING COUPLING IN A QUANTUM COMPUTING SYSTEM
Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number:
20240127100
An apparatus comprises: an array of coupled quantum elements in a housing configured to provide a low-temperature environment, where one of the quantum elements comprises: a first fluxonium qubit circuit (FQC), and a qubit coupling circuit configured to couple the first FQC to a second FQC; and a control module configured to apply magnetic flux pulses to quantum elements in the array of coupled quantum elements based at least in part on signals received from a digital signal interface…
RESONATOR COUPLABLE TO ALKALI ATOM FOR QUBIT GENERATION AND ENTANGLEMENT
Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number:
20240127099
A quantum computing system includes a first resonator couplable to a first alkali atom, a second resonator couplable to a second alkali atom, and lasers for trapping, cooling, and manipulating the first alkali atom and the second alkali atom. Detectors detect a presence of the trapped first alkali atom and the trapped second alkali atom, and a processor is configured to receive at least one input signal from at least one of the detectors, the input signal indicating a presence of the…
HIGH INTENSITY LABELED REACTANT COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR SEQUENCING
Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number:
20240124918
Compositions useful for the detection of single molecules in a sample are provided. In some aspects, the disclosure provides a nucleotide connected to a nucleic acid comprising a FRET label comprising at least three luminescent molecules. In some embodiments, the nucleic acids described herein comprise one or more structural features that provide enhanced fluorescence intensity. In some aspects, methods of sequencing using the labeled nucleotides of the disclosure are provided.
METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR PROTEIN FINGERPRINTING
Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number:
20240118280
Aspects of the disclosure relate to methods and compositions for identifying, isolating, and/or sequencing a target protein or peptide from a sample of proteins or peptides.
QUANTUM CHIP, QUANTUM COMPUTER, AND FABRICATION METHOD FOR QUANTUM CHIP
Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number:
20240119335
Disclosed are a quantum chip, a quantum computer, and a fabrication method for a quantum chip. The quantum chip includes a substrate and an adapter plate, at least one qubit is formed on the substrate, signal transmission lines are formed on the adapter plate, and the signal transmission lines are electrically connected to the at least one qubit.
