IP Library Granted Patent US 12,299,535
Granted Patent B2
US 12,299,535 · App. 17/630,687 · Granted May 13, 2025

Method and device for addressing qubits, and method for producing the device

Inventors: Jan Berend Meijer (Bochum, DE); Roger John (Leipzig, DE); Robert Staacke (Leipzig, DE)
Assignee: QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES GmbH
G06N10/40G06N10/20
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Patent No.
US 12,299,535
App. No.
17/630,687
Granted
May 13, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method of addressing at least one qubit to be addressed in a set of two or more qubits includes exposing the qubit to be addressed to an electromagnetic field; and at a same time exposing another qubit of the set of two or more qubits to an electromagnetic counter field in such a way that the electromagnetic field has no effect on the other qubit or that the electromagnetic field has a different effect on the other qubit than on the qubit to be addressed. A device for performing the method includes the set of two or more qubits and electromagnetic sources for generating the electromagnetic field and electromagnetic counter field.

Claims (17)

1. A device comprising:

a set of two or more qubits; and electromagnetic sources; wherein: the electromagnetic sources are electrically conductive structures; and the device is configured to carry out a method of addressing at least one qubit to be addressed in the set of two or more qubits, comprising:

exposing the qubit to be addressed to an electromagnetic field; and at a same time exposing another qubit of the set of two or more qubits to an electromagnetic counter field in such a way that the electromagnetic field has no effect on the other qubit or that the electromagnetic field has a different effect on the other qubit than on the qubit to be addressed;

wherein the electrically conductive structures are lines, wires, or metallizations;

wherein the electrically conductive structures generate the electromagnetic field and the electromagnetic counter field;

wherein each qubit is assigned to at least one electromagnetic source;

wherein the electromagnetic sources are arranged in a layer; and

wherein the qubits have a distance perpendicular to the layer from the respectively associated electromagnetic source of at most 30 nm, and/or the qubits projected onto this layer have a distance from the respectively associated electromagnetic source of at most 20 nm.

2. The device according to claim 1 , wherein: the qubits have a distance perpendicular to the layer from the respectively associated electromagnetic source in a range of 0 nm to 10 nm; and/or the qubits projected onto this layer have a distance from the respectively associated electromagnetic source in a range of 0 nm to 5 nm.

3. The device according to claim 1 , wherein at least a first electrically conductive structure of the electrically conductive structures is connected to an electromagnetic excitation element and a photoelectron detection element.

4. The device according to claim 3 , wherein: at least a second electrically conductive structure of the electrically conductive structures forms a ground for reading out the qubits; and the second electrically conductive structure is arranged adjacent to the first electrically conductive structure at a distance in a plane of at most 40 nm.

5. The device according to claim 4 , wherein the first electrically conductive structure and/or the second electrically conductive structure has a cross-section with a longitudinal dimension of less than 50 nm.

6. The device according to claim 1 , wherein:

the qubits are arranged one-, two-or three-dimensions and/or the electrically conductive structures are arranged in one, two or three dimensions;

there are two or more layers in which electrically conductive structures are arranged;

the electrically conductive structures are parallel to one another; and

the electrically conductive structures of different layers are arranged differently to each other; whereby an electrical insulator is arranged between two layers.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 12, 2026
From: QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
To: SAXONQ GMBH
Reel/Frame 073776/0216 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Sep 26, 2022
From: QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES UG (HAFTUNGSBESCHRÄNKT)
To: QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
Reel/Frame 061536/0095 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE CORRESPONDENT ADDRESS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 060097 FRAME: 0223. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT . Recorded Jun 17, 2022
From: MEIJER, JAN BEREND; JOHN, ROGER; STAACKE, ROBERT
To: QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES UG (HAFTUNGSBESCHRÄNKT)
Reel/Frame 060451/0846 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 3, 2022
From: MEIJER, JAN BEREND; JOHN, ROGER; STAACKE, ROBERT
To: QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES UG (HAFTUNGSBESCHRÄNKT)
Reel/Frame 060097/0223 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2019 120 716.9 · Jul 31, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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