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US 11,816,536 B2Granted
Physical realizations of a universal adiabatic quantum computer
Assignee1372934 B.C. Ltd.
InventorsJacob Daniel Biamonte, Andrew J. Berkley, Mohammad H. S. Amin
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Abstract
Devices, methods and articles advantageously allow communications between qubits to provide an architecture for universal adiabatic quantum computation. The architecture includes a first coupled basis A1B1 and a second coupled basis A2B2 that does not commute with the first basis A1B1.
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A method of operation of a quantum processor, the method comprising:
- forming a first coupled basis between a first pair of qubits of the quantum processor;
- forming a second coupled basis between a second pair of qubits of the quantum processor;
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- evolving the quantum processor, the quantum processor comprising the first pair of qubits, the first coupled basis, the second pair of qubits, and the second coupled basis, wherein the second coupled basis is non-commuting with the first coupled basis.
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A method of operation of a quantum processor, the quantum processor comprising a plurality of qubits, the method comprising:
- communicatively coupling a first programming interface to a Z-degree of freedom of a first qubit of the plurality of qubits;
- communicatively coupling a second programming interface to an X-degree of freedom of a second qubit of the plurality of the qubits;
- communicatively coupling, by a first coupling device, information between the Z-degree of freedom of a first pair of qubits of the plurality of qubits;
- communicatively coupling, by a second coupling device, information between the X-degree of freedom of a second pair of qubits of the plurality of qubits;
- programming the first qubit through the first programming interface;
- programming the second qubit through the second programming interface;
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- evolving the quantum processor, wherein the evolving the quantum processor includes causing a first interaction between the first pair of qubits through the Z-degree of freedom and a second interaction between the second pair of qubits through the X-degree of freedom.
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