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US 12,299,537 · App. 18/388,328 · Granted May 13, 2025

Fault-tolerant scalable modular quantum computer architecture with an enhanced control of multi-mode couplings between trapped ion qubits

Inventors: Christopher Monroe (Ellicott City, MD); Jungsang Kim (Chapel Hill, NC)
Assignees: University of Maryland; Duke University
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Patent No.
US 12,299,537
App. No.
18/388,328
Granted
May 13, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A modular quantum computer architecture is developed with a hierarchy of interactions that can scale to very large numbers of qubits. Local entangling quantum gates between qubit memories within a single modular register are accomplished using natural interactions between the qubits, and entanglement between separate modular registers is completed via a probabilistic photonic interface between qubits in different registers, even over large distances. This architecture is suitable for the implementation of complex quantum circuits utilizing the flexible connectivity provided by a reconfigurable photonic interconnect network. The subject architecture is made fault-tolerant which is a prerequisite for scalability. An optimal quantum control of multimode couplings between qubits is accomplished via individual addressing the qubits with segmented optical pulses to suppress crosstalk in each register, thus enabling high-fidelity gates that can be scaled to larger qubit registers for quantum computation and simulation.

Claims (52)

1. A quantum computer comprising:

a plurality of logic units, the plurality of logic units comprising:

a first logic unit including a first plurality of qubits, the first plurality of qubits including a first ion qubit, and

a second logic unit including a second plurality of qubits, the second plurality of qubits including a second ion qubit;

a laser configured to:

stimulate a state transition T 1 of the first ion qubit, and

stimulate a state transition T 2 of the second ion qubit; and

a photonic interconnect network, operatively coupled to the first logic unit and the second logic unit to connect, via multiplexing, the result of state transition T 1 to the second logic unit by mapping the result of state transition T 1 to a photon propagated through the photonic interconnect network.

2. The quantum computer of claim 1 wherein the photonic interconnect network is further to connect, via multiplexing, the result of state transition T 2 to the first logic unit.

3. The quantum computer of claim 1 wherein the first logic unit is operatively coupled to the photonic interconnect network via a plurality of communication ports, and wherein the multiplexing multiplexes the communication ports.

4. The quantum computer of claim 1 further comprising a second laser configured to initialize the first ion qubit.

5. The quantum computer of claim 4 wherein the first logic unit includes N q ion qubits, the N q ion qubits including the first ion qubit, and wherein the second laser emits a beam having a pulse shape that is evenly partitioned into (2N q +1) segments.

6. The quantum computer of claim 5 further comprising a sub-system operatively coupled to the second laser, the sub-system configured to apply to the beam at least one of an addressing of the N q ion qubits, a spectral phase, or an amplitude.

7. The quantum computer of claim 1 further comprising a second laser configured to participate in ion qubits state measurement.

8. The quantum computer of claim 1 wherein the connecting by the photonic interconnect network is via a fault-tolerant probabilistic connection.

9. The quantum computer of claim 1 wherein at least one of state transition T 1 or state transition T 2 is a Raman state transition.

10. A quantum computer comprising:

a plurality of logic units, the plurality of logic units comprising:

a first logic unit including a first plurality of qubits, the first plurality of qubits including a first ion qubit,

a second logic unit including a second plurality of qubits, the second plurality of qubits including a second ion qubit, and

a third logic unit including a third plurality of qubits, the third plurality of qubits including a third ion qubit;

a laser configured to:

stimulate a state transition T 1 of the first ion qubit,

stimulate a state transition T 2 of the second ion qubit, and

stimulate a state transition T 3 of the third ion qubit and a subsequent state transition T 4 of the third ion qubit; and

a photonic interconnect network, operatively coupled to the plurality of logic units, to connect, via multiplexing, the result of state transition T 3 to the first logic unit and the result of state transition T 4 to the second logic unit by mapping the result of state transition T 3 and the result of state transition T 4 to respective photons propagated through the photonic interconnect network.

11. The quantum computer of claim 10 wherein the plurality of logic units are hierarchical.

12. The quantum computer of claim 10 wherein the first plurality of qubits includes a chain of physical qubits, one or more refrigerator qubits interposed between quantum gates, and one or more communication qubits operatively coupled to the photonic interconnect network.

13. The quantum computer of claim 12 wherein the one or more refrigerator qubits exhibit a different species than the physical qubits.

14. The quantum computer of claim 12 further comprising a mechanism to isolate the one or more communication qubits from the physical qubits.

15. The quantum computer of claim 10 further comprising a processor, operatively coupled to the photonic interconnect network, to control the multiplexing.

16. The quantum computer of claim 10 further comprising a processor, operatively coupled to the photonic interconnect network, to form one or more quantum circuits.

17. The quantum computer of claim 10 further comprising a processor, operatively coupled to the photonic interconnect network, to apply one or more entanglement swapping protocols to coordinate entanglement generation time with one or more communication times.

18. The quantum computer of claim 10 wherein at least one of state transition T 1 , state transition T 2 , state transition T 3 , or state transition T 4 is a Raman state transition.

19. A quantum computer comprising:

a plurality of logic units, the plurality of logic units comprising:

a first logic unit including a first plurality of qubits, the first plurality of qubits including a first ion qubit,

a second logic unit including a second plurality of qubits, the second plurality of qubits including a second ion qubit, and

a third logic unit including a third plurality of qubits, the third plurality of qubits including a third ion qubit and a fourth ion qubit;

a laser configured to:

stimulate a state transition T 1 of the first ion qubit,

stimulate a state transition T 2 of the second ion qubit,

stimulate a state transition T 3 of the third ion qubit, and

stimulate a state transition T 4 of the fourth ion qubit; and

a photonic interconnect network, operatively coupled to the plurality of logic units, to connect, via multiplexing, the result of state transition T 3 to the first logic unit and the result of state transition T 4 to the second logic unit by mapping the result of state transition T 3 and the result of state transition T 4 to respective photons propagated through the photonic interconnect network.

20. The quantum computer of claim 19 further comprising a sub-system to detect one or more coincidence events for photons emitted from qubits of two or more of the plurality of logic units.

21. The quantum computer of claim 20 wherein the sub-system comprises an array of P/2 Bell state detectors, wherein P is the number of logic units in the plurality of logic units.

22. The quantum computer of claim 20 further comprising a plurality of quantum gates operatively coupled to the sub-system via the photonic interconnect network.

23. The quantum computer of claim 19 further comprising a quantum adder circuit configured to compute a sum of two n-bit integers, wherein n is a positive integer.

24. The quantum computer of claim 23 wherein the quantum adder circuit employs 6n logical qubits placed on 1.5n of the plurality of logic units to compute the sum of the two n-bit integers.

25. The quantum computer of claim 23 wherein the sum is computed at a first concatenation level of Steane code encoding.

26. The quantum computer of claim 19 wherein at least one of state transition T 1 , state transition T 2 , state transition T 3 , or state transition T 4 is a Raman state transition.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 9, 2023
From: MONROE, CHRISTOPHER
To: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
Reel/Frame 065510/0227 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 9, 2023
From: KIM, JUNGSANG
To: DUKE UNIVERSITY
Reel/Frame 065533/0366 →
Continuity (5)
Continuation 17384574 · Jul 23, 2021
Continuation 15844357 · Dec 15, 2017
Continuation 14449477 · Aug 1, 2014
Provisional Application 61861455 · Aug 2, 2013
Related Publication 20240362512A1 · Oct 31, 2024
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