Patent ID: 7253654
Filing Date: 2007-08-07
Classification: B82Y,G06N,G11C,H03K

Abstract:
1. A device comprising: a plurality of qubits, wherein each qubit in said plurality of qubits comprises a superconducting loop interrupted by a plurality of Josephson junctions, each Josephson junction in said plurality of Josephson junctions interrupting a different portion of the superconducting loop and each different adjacent pair of Josephson junctions in said plurality of Josephson junctions defining a different superconducting island in a plurality of superconducting islands in said superconducting loop, the plurality of superconducting islands including a first superconducting island and a second superconducting island; a first capacitance; a second capacitance; and a plurality of readout mechanisms, wherein: