Patent SG-11201805164W-A (SG)
Title: Programmable universal quantum annealing with co-planar waveguide flux qubits
Inventor: BARZEGAR ALIREZA SHABANI
IPC: G06N99/00
Filed: 2015-12-16
Abstract: 310 310 320 314 320 320 320 310 FIG. 3 W O 20 17 / 105 429 Al (12) INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION PUBLISHED UNDER THE PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (PCT) (19) World Intellectual Property Organization International Bureau (10) International Publication Number (43) International Publication Date WO 2017/105429 Al 22 June 2017 (22.06.2017) WIPO I PCT 111111111111101101111111111101011111011010111111111111101110111111111110111111 (51) International Patent Classification: GOON 99/00 (2010.01) (21) International Application Number: PCT/US2015/065995 (22) International Filing Date: 16 December 2015 (16.12.2015) (25) Filing Language: English (26) Publication Language: English (71) Applicant: GOOGLE INC. [US/US]; 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043 (US). (72) Inventors; and (71) Applicants : BARZEGAR, Alireza Shabani [IR/US]; Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043 (US). ROUSHAN, Pedram [US/US]; Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043 (US). CHEN, Yu [CN/US]; Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043 (US). NEVEN, Hartmut [DE/US]; Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043 (US). (74) Agent: VALENTINO, Joseph; Fish & Richardson P.C., P.O. Box 1022, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440-1022 (US). (81) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of national protection available): AE, AG, AL, AM, AO, AT, AU, AZ, BA, BB, BG, BH, BN, BR, BW, BY, BZ, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CU, CZ, DE, DK, DM, DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, GB, GD, GE, GH, GM, GT, HN, HR, HU, ID, IL, IN, IR, IS, JP, KE, KG, KN, KP, KR, KZ, LA, LC, LK, LR, LS, LU, LY, MA, MD, ME, MG, MK, MN, MW, MX, MY, MZ, NA, NG, NI, NO, NZ, OM, PA, PE, PG, PH, PL, PT, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA, SC, SD, SE, SG, SK, SL, SM, ST, SV, SY, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TZ, UA, UG, US, UZ, VC, VN, ZA, ZM, ZW. (84) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of regional protection available): ARIPO (BW, GH, GM, KE, LR, LS, MW, MZ, NA, RW, SD, SL, ST, SZ, TZ, UG, ZM, ZW), Eurasian (AM, AZ, BY, KG, KZ, RU, TJ, TM), European (AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR), OAPI (BF, BJ, CF, CG, CI, CM, GA, GN, GQ, GW, KM, ML, MR, NE, SN, TD, TG). Published: with international search report (Art. 21(3)) (54) Title: PROGRAMMABLE UNIVERSAL QUANTUM ANNEALING WITH CO-PLANAR WAVEGUIDE FLUX QUBITS (57) : A quantum computing device includes multiple co-planar waveguide flux qubits, at least one coupler element ar- ranged such that each co-planar waveguide flux qubit, of the multiple co-planar waveguide flux qubits, is operatively couplable to each other co-planar waveguide flux qubit, of the multiple co-planar waveguide flux qubits, of the quantum computing device, and a tuning quantum device, in which the tuning quantum device is in electrical contact with a first co-planar waveguide flux qubit of the plurality of co-planar waveguide flux qubits and with a second co-planar waveguide flux qubit of the plurality of co-planar wave- guide flux qubits.