Quantum communication system
Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number:
11985235
A quantum communication system for encrypting communication includes a processor configured to receive an encryption request from a mobile device. The mobile device determines a first encryption key from the mobile device. A quantum random number generator generates a second encryption key using quantum mechanics. The processor transmits the second encryption key to the mobile device. The mobile device implements a digital XOR logic gate configured to perform an XOR operation on the…
Lithium, phosphorus, sulfur, and iodine containing electrolyte and catholyte compositions, electrolyte membranes for electrochemical devices, and annealing methods of making these electrolytes and catholytes
Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number:
11984551
The present disclosure sets forth battery components for secondary and/or traction batteries. Described herein are new solid-state lithium (Li) conducting electrolytes including monolithic, single layer, and bi-layer solid-state sulfide-based lithium ion (Li+) conducting catholytes or electrolytes. These solid-state ion conductors have particular chemical compositions which are arranged and/or bonded through both crystalline and amorphous bonds. Also provided herein are methods of making…
Whispering-gallery mode optical resonator
Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number:
11983607
A quantum computing system, method and computer readable storage medium involve tuning a whispering-gallery mode optical resonator to support a resonance frequency associated with a transition frequency of an atom. Operation of a laser is controlled to cause the atom to be trapped adjacent the optical resonator and within the evanescent field portion. Based on an atom presence signal from an optical atom presence detector, an indication is provided that the atom is trapped adjacent the…
Method and device for constructing quantum circuit of QRAM architecture, and method and device for parsing quantum address data
Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number:
11983606
Disclosed are a method and device for constructing a quantum circuit of a QRAM architecture, the QRAM architecture being configured for accessing data and being a binary tree structure, the method including: partitioning the binary tree structure into basic circuit structures, wherein a basic circuit structure comprises address bits and data bits of one subtree node and data bits of two child nodes in the lower layer of the one subtree node; determining qubits required for a basic…
Alternative approach to the generation of a unique response to a challenge
Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number:
11983262
According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a device for generating a unique response to a challenge, the device comprising: a plurality of structures, each structure being able to change from a first distinct state, to a second distinct state, in response to an appropriate input challenge; the device being arranged to facilitate a challenge of the plurality of structures in combination, by changing an input to the plurality of structures in combination, to cause each…
Radiation position detector
Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number:
11982777
A radiation position detector includes: a photodetector array constituted of unit-sized unit photodetectors; a scintillator array constituted of a plurality of tetragonal scintillator elements optically connected to the photodetector array, wherein scintillator units are each constituted of a pair of unit scintillators whose individual cross-sectional size of plane facing to right receiving surface is ΒΌ of the size of the unit photodetector, where at least part of which is optically…
Quantum printing methods
Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number:
11981994
The invention includes apparatus and methods for instantiating and quantum printing materials, such as elemental metals, in a nanoporous carbon powder.
Neutron ray irradiation target apparatus, mutation induction method, and irradiation target manufacturing method
Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number:
11980148
A neutron ray irradiation target apparatus 100 of the present invention is used to irradiate irradiation targets (seeds, etc.) with a neutron ray generated by a neutron ray irradiation apparatus. The neutron ray irradiation target apparatus 100 has a holding means 70 for holding the irradiation targets. The holding means 70 holds at least one closed container 30 which can accommodate the irradiation targets 20 stacked randomly and three-dimensionally. In the case where the irradiation…
Multiple cavity-coupled emitters for generating a graph state
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977955
A quantum computing system comprises a plurality of photonic cavities, a plurality of coupling locations for quantum emitter positioning, a photon generator configured to supply photons to the plurality of photonic cavities, and a plurality of photon output channels downstream of the plurality of cavities to output a graph state. Each coupling location is associated with a differing one of the plurality of photonic cavities. Quantum emitters associated with each coupling location are…
Superconducting switch
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11980105
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for operating superconducting circuits. In one aspect, an electric circuit includes: (1) a superconductor component having a first terminal at a first end and a second terminal at a second end; (2) a gate component thermally-coupled to the superconductor component at a first location between the first terminal and the second terminal, where the gate component is thermally-coupled via a first section of the…
Method, apparatus and computer program product for determining the component of a magnetic field in a predetermined direction
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977954
The invention relates to a method for determining the component of a magnetic field in a predetermined direction. The method comprises preparing a quantum system in a coherent superposition state (S1), letting the quantum system evolve for a delay time period (S2) and performing a readout operation and a projective measurement on the quantum system (S3). The steps (S1, S2, S3) are iteratively repeated in an iteration loop, wherein the delay time period increases linearly by the same time…
Optical microdisks for integrated devices
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977257
Apparatus and methods for improving optical signal collection in an integrated device are described. A microdisk can be formed in an integrated device and increase collection and/or concentration of radiation incident on the microdisk and re-radiated by the microdisk. An example integrated device that can include a microdisk may be used for analyte detection and/or analysis. Such an integrated device may include a plurality of pixels, each having a reaction chamber for receiving a sample…
Measuring radio frequency electromagnetic waves using circular polarization
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977107
In a general aspect, a radio frequency (RF) measurement device includes first and second mode converters, each configured to convert a mode of the RF electromagnetic wave between a first RF waveguide mode and a second RF waveguide mode. The RF measurement device also includes an internal cavity between the first and second mode converters that contains a vapor or a source of the vapor. The vapor includes Ryberg atoms or molecules. The RF measurement device additionally includes an RF…
Electrically insulated threaded connection
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11976758
An electrical insulated threaded connection includes a conductive box with a plurality of internal threads, a conductive pin with a plurality of external threads, and a double-threaded electrical insulator sleeve disposed between the conductive pin and box. The double-threaded electrical insulator sleeve comprises a plurality of external threads that mate with the plurality of internal threads of the conductive box and a plurality of internal threads that mate with the plurality of…
Connector
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11976685
A connector for attachment of two frame elements in a framing system has a connector body of similar rectangular section to the frame elements. A flat inner engagement face of the connector body engages with a flat end face of a first frame element, and essentially forms an extension of the first frame element. An outer engagement face of the connector body is substantially parallel to the inner engagement face and in use abuts against a flat side wall of a second frame element. The…
Apparatus and methods for gaussian boson sampling
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11972323
An apparatus includes a light source to provide a plurality of input optical modes in a squeezed state. The apparatus also includes a network of interconnected reconfigurable beam splitters (RBSs) configured to perform a unitary transformation of the plurality of input optical modes to generate a plurality of output optical modes. An array of photon counting detectors is in optical communication with the network of interconnected RBSs and configured to measure the number of photons in…
Superconductive memory cells and devices
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11972794
An electronic device includes a substrate and a layer of superconducting material disposed over the substrate. The layer of superconducting material includes a first wire and a loop that is (1) distinct and separate from the first wire and (ii) capacitively coupled to the first wire while the loop and the first wire are in a superconducting state.
Interfaces, systems and apparatuses for constructing 3D AR environment overlays, and methods for making and using same
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11972609
Systems, apparatuses, interfaces, and methods for implementing the systems, apparatuses, and interfaces include capturing an image, displaying the image on a display devise, scanning and identifying objects and/or attributes associated with the image and/or objects therein, generating a 3D AR environment within the display overlaid on the image, generating a ray pointer for improved interaction with the image and the generated 3D AR environment, where the environment includes virtual…
Decision organizer
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11972468
Systems and methods of displaying product information relating to multiple purchase options are provided. A method includes displaying, in a first portion of a user interface, a web browser and displaying, in a second portion of the user interface, a decision organizing tool comprising a candidate icon portion comprising a plurality of candidate icons and an active icon portion. The method also includes receiving instructions to transfer of one of the plurality of candidate icons from…
Entangling gate for entangled graph state generation
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11972324
Generating photonic graph states includes positioning a plurality of quantum emitters at a plurality of coupling sites associated with a plurality of cavities and initializing a state of a quantum emitter qubit associated with each of the plurality of quantum emitters. Photonic qubits are transmitted toward the plurality of the quantum emitters a first instance transmission for generating an entangling gate between the photonic qubits and the quantum emitter qubit in order to entangle…
