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US 8,642,998 · App. 13/224,765 · Granted Feb 4, 2014

Array of quantum systems in a cavity for quantum computing

Inventors: Jay M. Gambetta (Yorktown Heights, NY); Mark B. Ketchen (Hadley, MA); Chad T. Rigetti (Hopewell Junction, NY); Matthias Steffen (Cortlandt Manor, NY)
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,642,998
App. No.
13/224,765
Granted
Feb 4, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A device includes a volume bounded by electromagnetically conducting walls, an aperture in a bounding wall of the electromagnetically conducting walls, a plurality of quantum systems disposed within the volume and an electromagnetic field source coupled to the volume via the aperture.

Claims (38)

1. A device, comprising:

a volume bounded by electromagnetically conducting walls;

an aperture in a bounding wall of the electromagnetically conducting walls;

a plurality of quantum systems disposed within the volume; and

an electromagnetic field source coupled to the volume via the aperture,

wherein each of the plurality of quantum systems is arranged at a location in the volume, which is relative to an electric field profile of a mode of interest from the electromagnetic filed source, the location determining coupling strength between each of the plurality of quantum systems to the cavity and to other quantum systems.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the volume supports a plurality of electromagnetic resonant modes, each of the plurality of resonant modes characterized by a resonant frequency.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of quantum systems includes a plurality of eignestates.

4. The device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the electromagnetic field source produces an electromagnetic field within the volume.

5. The device as claimed in claim 1 wherein a plurality of the quantum systems disposed within the volume is coupled to the electromagnetic field within the volume.

6. The device as claimed in claim 5 wherein a particular quantum system from among the plurality disposed within the volume interacts with a different particular quantum system from among the plurality disposed within the volume by way of the electromagnetic field within the volume.

7. The device as claimed in claim 2 wherein a particular quantum system from among the plurality disposed within the volume interacts with a different particular quantum system from among the plurality disposed within the volume by way of the electromagnetic resonant modes supported by the bounded volume.

8. The device as claimed in claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of quantum systems is an electronic circuit.

9. The device as claimed in claim 8 wherein each of the plurality of quantum systems includes a Josephson junction.

10. The device as claimed in claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of quantum systems is a qubit.

11. The device as claimed in claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of quantum systems is a composite quantum system.

12. The device as claimed in claim 1 wherein a resonant mode of the cavity and the plurality of quantum systems is a composite quantum system.

13. The device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the electromagnetic field source is configured to induce a measurement of an eigenstate of at least one of one or more of the plurality of quantum systems and the composite quantum system.

14. The device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the electromagnetic field source is configured to induce an electromagnetic field within the cavity.

15. The device as claimed in claim 14 wherein each of the plurality of quantum systems includes a transition frequency.

16. The device as claimed in claim 15 wherein the electromagnetic field source is configured to induce transitions between eigenstates among the plurality of quantum systems.

17. The device as claimed in claim 15 wherein the electromagnetic field source is configured to induce transitions between eigenstates of one or more quantum systems among the plurality of quantum systems.

18. The array as claimed in claim 2 wherein each of the one or more quantum states includes a measurable feature.

19. The array as claimed in claim 1 wherein the housing is a closed section of electromagnetic waveguide.

20. The array as claimed in claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of quantum systems is a transmon-style superconducting qubit.

21. The device as claimed in claim 2 wherein the electromagnetic field source is configured to induce an electromagnetic field within the cavity at one or more of the resonant frequencies associated with the volume.

22. An apparatus, comprising:

a volume bounded by conductive surfaces having an aperture;

an arrangement of quantum systems disposed within the volume; and

an electromagnetic field source coupled to the volume,

wherein individual quantum systems from the arrangement of quantum systems is arranged at a location in the volume, which is relative to an electric field profile of a mode of interest from the electromagnetic filed source, the location determining coupling strength between individual quantum systems to the volume and to other individual quantum systems.

23. The apparatus as claimed in claim 22 wherein an electromagnetic field generated from the electromagnetic field source within the volume is applied through the aperture.

24. An qubit apparatus, comprising:

a housing defining a cavity therein;

a plurality of qubit devices arranged in the cavity; and

an electromagnetic field source coupled to the housing and configured to apply an electromagnetic field within the cavity,

wherein each of the plurality of qubit devices is arranged at a location in the cavity, which is relative to an electric field profile of a mode of interest from the electromagnetic filed source, the location determining coupling strength between each of the plurality of qubit devices to the cavity and to other qubit devices.

25. The array as claimed in claim 24 wherein each of the plurality of qubits includes a resonance frequency and wherein the electromagnetic field is configured to generate one or more quantum states in each of the plurality of qubits, and wherein the plurality of qubits are arranged in the cavity such that modes associated with each of the plurality of qubits couple with one another.

Assignments (8)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded May 12, 2021
From: WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
To: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. INC.
Reel/Frame 056987/0001 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Nov 20, 2020
From: WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
To: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Reel/Frame 054636/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 2, 2020
From: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
To: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. INC.
Reel/Frame 054633/0001 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Nov 29, 2018
From: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
To: WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Reel/Frame 049490/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 5, 2015
From: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. 2 LLC; GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. INC.
To: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
Reel/Frame 036779/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 3, 2015
From: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
To: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. 2 LLC
Reel/Frame 036550/0001 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE APPLICATION SERIAL NUMBER PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 027300 FRAME 0673. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE APPLICATION SERIAL NUMBER LISTED AS 13224768 IS INCORRECT.. Recorded Aug 27, 2012
From: GAMBETTA, JAY M.; KETCHEN, MARK B.; RIGETTI, CHAD T.; STEFFEN, MATTHIAS
To: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 028859/0737 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 30, 2011
From: GAMBETTA, JAY M.; KETCHEN, MARK B.; RIGETTI, CHAD T.; STEFFEN, MATTHIAS
To: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 027300/0673 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61497018 · Jun 14, 2011
Related Publication 20120319085A1 · Dec 20, 2012