IP Library Granted Patent US 11,770,984
Granted Patent B2
US 11,770,984 · App. 17/090,747 · Granted Sep 26, 2023

System and method using multilayer qubit lattice arrays for quantum computing

Inventors: Peter Carl Hendrickson (Reston, VA); Jadon Daniel Erwin (Herndon, VA)
Assignee: KBR WYLE SERVICES, LLC
H10N69/00G06N10/40H10N60/12
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Patent No.
US 11,770,984
App. No.
17/090,747
Granted
Sep 26, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A quantum computing (QC) system that includes a plurality of qubits arranged substantially in a plurality of substantially planar regions that are substantially parallel to one another, at least some of the substantially planar regions including two or more qubits and one or more qubits of each substantially planar region configured to interact with one or more qubits of at least one other substantially planar region.

Claims (27)

1. A quantum computing (QC) system comprising:

a first substrate and a second substrate, the first substrate and the second substrate substantially parallel to one another;

a plurality of qubits arranged substantially in a plurality of substantially planar regions that are substantially parallel to one another, the plurality of qubits arranged as a gate array comprising a plurality of gates with each gate of the plurality of gates comprising a first portion at a surface of the first substrate and a second portion at a surface of the second substrate, each gate of the plurality of gates comprising multiple qubits that are positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate, with the qubits at or near a surface of at least one of the first and second substrates, the first portion of each gate of the gate array is being selected from the group consisting of: a portion comprising one qubit, a portion comprising three qubits, a portion comprising six qubits, and a portion comprising seven qubits and the second portion of each gate of the gate array being selected from the group consisting of: a portion comprising one qubit, a portion comprising three qubits, a portion comprising six qubits, and a portion comprising seven qubits;

a first substantially planar region of the plurality of substantially planar regions comprising at least one qubit; and

a second substantially planar region of the plurality of substantially planar regions comprising multiple qubits,

wherein a first qubit of the at least one qubit is configured to be simultaneously entangled with at least two second qubits of the multiple qubits.

2. A quantum computing (QC) system comprising a plurality of qubit gates comprising ions that are configured to be fully connected and simultaneously entangled with one another, the plurality of qubit gates arranged in a substantially rectangular lattice having a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, the plurality of qubit gates configured to provide simultaneous gate operations of two or more of the qubit gates.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the qubit gates of at least one row of the plurality of rows and/or at least one column of the plurality of columns comprise qubit gates each comprising four ions and qubit gates each comprising thirteen ions, the qubit gates arranged alternatively.

4. The system of claim 2 , wherein the qubit gates of at least one row of the plurality of rows and/or at least one column of the plurality of columns comprise a plurality of qubit gates each comprising ten ions.

5. The system of claim 2 , wherein the qubit gates of at least one row of the plurality of rows and/or at least one column of the plurality of columns comprise a qubit gate comprising four ions, a qubit gate comprising thirteen ions, and/or a plurality of qubit gates each comprising ten ions.

6. The system of claim 2 , wherein the qubit gates comprise one of the following:

equal numbers of qubit gates each comprising four ions and qubit gates each comprising thirteen ions, alternating with one another along each row and each column; and

all of the qubit gates of the lattice comprising qubit gates each comprising ten ions.

7. A quantum computing (QC) system comprising a plurality of three dimensional (3-D) gate cells, each 3-D gate cell comprising at least three qubits configured to be fully connected simultaneously with one another across three dimensions, the plurality of 3-D gate cells configured to perform gate operations of two or more of the 3-D gate cells.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the plurality of 3-D gate cells comprises ion trap arrays that are configured to have coherent connectivity or entanglement directly between qubits without photonic interconnects between the qubits.

9. The system of claim 7 , wherein the 3-D gate cells have a geometrically symmetric arrangement and are configured to operate natively, in a single gate operation, without reliance on concatenations of multiple qubit gates each comprising one qubit or two qubits.

10. The system of claim 7 , wherein the gate cells comprise asymmetric 3-D structures with complementary bases and caps arranged in alternating orientations with interleaving of non-identical neighboring cell bases and caps.

11. The system of claim 7 , wherein the plurality of 3-D gate cells are components of at least one quantum FPGA (QFPGA) and/or ASIC (QASIC) chip.

12. A quantum computing (QC) system comprising an array of three dimensional (3-D) gate cells comprising multiple qubits, the array comprising one or more gates comprising fourteen qubits, thirteen qubits, ten qubits, nine qubits, eight qubits, seven qubits, and/or four qubits.

13. The system of claim 12 , further comprising a first substrate and a second substrate, the first substrate and the second substrate being substantially planar and parallel to one another, wherein the multiple qubits are positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate.

14. The system of claim 12 , wherein the one or more gates are arranged along a surface of a first substrate in a substantially rectangular pattern with at least one row and at least one column or in a substantially hexagonal pattern or a substantially diagonal pattern.

15. The system of claim 14 , wherein the substantially rectangular pattern comprises four rows each having four gates and four columns each having four gates.

16. The system of claim 15 , wherein each row of the four rows comprises two gates each comprising four qubits and two gates each comprising thirteen qubits, the gates of the row arranged alternately and each column of the four columns comprises two gates each comprising four qubits and two gates each comprising thirteen qubits, the gates of the column arranged alternately.

17. The system of claim 7 , wherein the gates of the plurality of 3-D gates cells are arranged in a substantially rectangular pattern with at least one row and at least one column or in a substantially hexagonal pattern or a substantially diagonal pattern.

18. The system of claim 17 , wherein the substantially rectangular pattern comprises four rows each having four gates and four columns each having four gates.

19. The system of claim 18 , wherein each row of the four rows comprises two gates each comprising four qubits and two gates each comprising thirteen qubits, the gates of the row arranged alternately and each column of the four columns comprises two gates each comprising four qubits and two gates each comprising thirteen qubits, the gates of the column arranged alternately.

20. The system of claim 7 , wherein, each qubit of a gate cell is configured to be quantum-mechanically entangled with at least one qubit of another gate cell.

Assignments (2)
MERGER Recorded Jul 12, 2023
From: CENTAURI, LLC
To: KBR WYLE SERVICES, LLC
Reel/Frame 064228/0437 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 5, 2020
From: HENDRICKSON, PETER CARL; ERWIN, JADON DANIEL
To: CENTAURI, LLC
Reel/Frame 054291/0228 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62933148 · Nov 8, 2019
Related Publication 20210142204A1 · May 13, 2021
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