Patents by Inventor Brian Lester

Brian Lester has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250328797
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for performing non-classical computations. The methods and systems generally use a plurality of spatially distinct optical trapping sites to trap a plurality of atoms, one or more electromagnetic delivery units to apply electromagnetic energy to one or more atoms of the plurality to induce the atoms to adopt one or more superposition states of a first atomic state and a second atomic state, one or more entanglement units to quantum mechanically entangle at least a subset of the one or more atoms in the one or more superposition states with at least another atom of the plurality, and one or more readout optical units to perform measurements of the superposition states to obtain the non-classical computation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2024
    Publication date: October 23, 2025
    Inventors: Jonathan KING, Benjamin BLOOM, Krish KOTRU, Brian LESTER, Maxwell PARSONS
  • Publication number: 20250005415
    Abstract: In an aspect, the present disclosure provides methods and systems for forming optical traps. The optical traps may be three-dimensional optical traps. The methods and systems may comprise use of cavity based optical traps. A device for forming an optical trap may comprise a first optical cavity, said first optical cavity configured to form a first standing wave pattern, wherein said first standing wave pattern is one or two dimensional; a second optical cavity, said second optical cavity configured to form a second standing wave pattern; and a chamber configured to hold one or more atoms disposed within a three-dimensional trapping potential formed by at least said first standing wave pattern and said second standing wave pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Albert RYOU, Mark STONE, Matthew NORCIA, Mickey MCDONALD, Brian LESTER, Benjamin BLOOM
  • Publication number: 20240355496
    Abstract: In an aspect, the present disclosure provides a method comprising providing a first optical trap and a second optical trap, trapping an atom in the first optical trap, identifying a presence of the atom in the first optical trap, and transferring the atom from the first optical trap to the second optical trap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Mickey MCDONALD, Benjamin BLOOM, Brian LESTER, Krish KOTRU, Jonathan KING, Albert RYOU
  • Patent number: 12112238
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for performing non-classical computations. The methods and systems generally use a plurality of spatially distinct optical trapping sites to trap a plurality of atoms, one or more electromagnetic delivery units to apply electromagnetic energy to one or more atoms of the plurality to induce the atoms to adopt one or more superposition states of a first atomic state and a second atomic state, one or more entanglement units to quantum mechanically entangle at least a subset of the one or more atoms in the one or more superposition states with at least another atom of the plurality, and one or more readout optical units to perform measurements of the superposition states to obtain the non-classical computation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: ATOM COMPUTING INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan King, Benjamin Bloom, Krish Kotru, Brian Lester, Maxwell Parsons
  • Patent number: 12106183
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for performing non-classical computations. The methods and systems generally use a plurality of spatially distinct optical trapping sites to trap a plurality of atoms, one or more electromagnetic delivery units to apply electromagnetic energy to one or more atoms of the plurality to induce the atoms to adopt one or more superposition states of a first atomic state and a second atomic state, one or more entanglement units to quantum mechanically entangle at least a subset of the one or more atoms in the one or more superposition states with at least another atom of the plurality, and one or more readout optical units to perform measurements of the superposition states to obtain the non-classical computation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Inventors: Jonathan King, Benjamin Bloom, Brian Lester
  • Publication number: 20240193452
    Abstract: In an aspect, the present disclosure provides a method comprising providing a plurality of atoms. At least one atom of the plurality of atoms may have a different state than one or more other atoms of the plurality of atoms. The at least one atom may be excited to an excited state. The exciting may be performed using a non-site selective excitation beam over the plurality of atoms that only interacts with the at least one atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Brian LESTER, Benjamin BLOOM, Krish KOTRU, Jonathan KING, Mickey MCDONALD, Mark STONE
  • Patent number: 11995512
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for performing non-classical computations. The methods and systems generally use a plurality of spatially distinct optical trapping sites to trap a plurality of atoms, one or more electromagnetic delivery units to apply electromagnetic energy to one or more atoms of the plurality to induce the atoms to adopt one or more superposition states of a first atomic state and a second atomic state, one or more entanglement units to quantum mechanically entangle at least a subset of the one or more atoms in the one or more superposition states with at least another atom of the plurality, and one or more readout optical units to perform measurements of the superposition states to obtain the non-classical computation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Atom Computing Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan King, Benjamin Bloom, Krish Kotru, Brian Lester, Maxwell Parsons
  • Publication number: 20240127092
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for performing non-classical computations. The methods and systems generally use a plurality of spatially distinct optical trapping sites to trap a plurality of atoms, one or more electromagnetic delivery units to apply electromagnetic energy to one or more atoms of the plurality to induce the atoms to adopt one or more superposition states of a first atomic state and a second atomic state, one or more entanglement units to quantum mechanically entangle at least a subset of the one or more atoms in the one or more superposition states with at least another atom of the plurality, and one or more readout optical units to perform measurements of the superposition states to obtain the non-classical computation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Jonathan KING, Benjamin BLOOM, Brian LESTER
  • Patent number: 11875227
    Abstract: In an aspect, the present disclosure provides methods and systems for forming optical traps. The optical traps may be three-dimensional optical traps. The methods and systems may comprise use of cavity based optical traps. A device for forming an optical trap may comprise a first optical cavity, said first optical cavity configured to form a first standing wave pattern, wherein said first standing wave pattern is one or two dimensional; a second optical cavity, said second optical cavity configured to form a second standing wave pattern; and a chamber configured to hold one or more atoms disposed within a three-dimensional trapping potential formed by at least said first standing wave pattern and said second standing wave pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Atom Computing Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Ryou, Mark Stone, Matthew Norcia, Mickey Mcdonald, Brian Lester, Benjamin Bloom
  • Publication number: 20230376819
    Abstract: In an aspect, the present disclosure provides methods and systems for forming optical traps. The optical traps may be three-dimensional optical traps. The methods and systems may comprise use of cavity based optical traps. A device for forming an optical trap may comprise a first optical cavity, said first optical cavity configured to form a first standing wave pattern, wherein said first standing wave pattern is one or two dimensional; a second optical cavity, said second optical cavity configured to form a second standing wave pattern; and a chamber configured to hold one or more atoms disposed within a three-dimensional trapping potential formed by at least said first standing wave pattern and said second standing wave pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Albert RYOU, Mark STONE, Matthew NORCIA, Mickey MCDONALD, Brian LESTER, Benjamin BLOOM
  • Patent number: 11797873
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for performing non-classical computations. The methods and systems generally use a plurality of spatially distinct optical trapping sites to trap a plurality of atoms, one or more electromagnetic delivery units to apply electromagnetic energy to one or more atoms of the plurality to induce the atoms to adopt one or more superposition states of a first atomic state and a second atomic state, one or more entanglement units to quantum mechanically entangle at least a subset of the one or more atoms in the one or more superposition states with at least another atom of the plurality, and one or more readout optical units to perform measurements of the superposition states to obtain the non-classical computation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Atom Computing Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan King, Benjamin Bloom, Brian Lester
  • Publication number: 20230237358
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for performing non-classical computations. The methods and systems generally use a plurality of spatially distinct optical trapping sites to trap a plurality of atoms, one or more electromagnetic delivery units to apply electromagnetic energy to one or more atoms of the plurality to induce the atoms to adopt one or more superposition states of a first atomic state and a second atomic state, one or more entanglement units to quantum mechanically entangle at least a subset of the one or more atoms in the one or more superposition states with at least another atom of the plurality, and one or more readout optical units to perform measurements of the superposition states to obtain the non-classical computation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Jonathan KING, Benjamin BLOOM, Krish KOTRU, Brian LESTER, Maxwell PARSONS
  • Patent number: 11586968
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for performing non-classical computations. The methods and systems generally use a plurality of spatially distinct optical trapping sites to trap a plurality of atoms, one or more electromagnetic delivery units to apply electromagnetic energy to one or more atoms of the plurality to induce the atoms to adopt one or more superposition states of a first atomic state and a second atomic state, one or more entanglement units to quantum mechanically entangle at least a subset of the one or more atoms in the one or more superposition states with at least another atom of the plurality, and one or more readout optical units to perform measurements of the superposition states to obtain the non-classical computation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: ATOM COMPUTING INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan King, Benjamin Bloom, Krish Kotru, Brian Lester, Maxwell Parsons
  • Patent number: 11580435
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for performing non-classical computations. The methods and systems generally use a plurality of spatially distinct optical trapping sites to trap a plurality of atoms, one or more electromagnetic delivery units to apply electromagnetic energy to one or more atoms of the plurality to induce the atoms to adopt one or more superposition states of a first atomic state and a second atomic state, one or more entanglement units to quantum mechanically entangle at least a subset of the one or more atoms in the one or more superposition states with at least another atom of the plurality, and one or more readout optical units to perform measurements of the superposition states to obtain the non-classical computation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: ATOM COMPUTING INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan King, Benjamin Bloom, Krish Kotru, Brian Lester, Maxwell Parsons
  • Patent number: 11451231
    Abstract: Techniques for implementing robust quantum logic gates are provided and described. In some aspects, a quantum logic gate between a plurality of cavities comprising a first cavity and a second cavity is implemented by performing a first beam splitter operation between the first cavity and the second cavity using a coupling transmon that is dispersively coupled to both the first cavity and the second cavity, and performing a controlled phase shift operation between the second cavity and an ancilla transmon that is dispersively coupled to the second cavity but not dispersively coupled to the first cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Yale University
    Inventors: Liang Jiang, Steven M. Girvin, Brian Lester, Yvonne Gao, Robert J. Schoelkopf, III
  • Publication number: 20210272006
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for performing non-classical computations. The methods and systems generally use a plurality of spatially distinct optical trapping sites to trap a plurality of atoms, one or more electromagnetic delivery units to apply electromagnetic energy to one or more atoms of the plurality to induce the atoms to adopt one or more superposition states of a first atomic state and a second atomic state, one or more entanglement units to quantum mechanically entangle at least a subset of the one or more atoms in the one or more superposition states with at least another atom of the plurality, and one or more readout optical units to perform measurements of the superposition states to obtain the non-classical computation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Jonathan KING, Benjamin BLOOM, Brian LESTER
  • Publication number: 20210049495
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for performing non-classical computations. The methods and systems generally use a plurality of spatially distinct optical trapping sites to trap a plurality of atoms, one or more electromagnetic delivery units to apply electromagnetic energy to one or more atoms of the plurality to induce the atoms to adopt one or more superposition states of a first atomic state and a second atomic state, one or more entanglement units to quantum mechanically entangle at least a subset of the one or more atoms in the one or more superposition states with at least another atom of the plurality, and one or more readout optical units to perform measurements of the superposition states to obtain the non-classical computation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Jonathan KING, Benjamin BLOOM, Krish KOTRU, Brian LESTER, Maxwell PARSONS
  • Publication number: 20210049494
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for performing non-classical computations. The methods and systems generally use a plurality of spatially distinct optical trapping sites to trap a plurality of atoms, one or more electromagnetic delivery units to apply electromagnetic energy to one or more atoms of the plurality to induce the atoms to adopt one or more superposition states of a first atomic state and a second atomic state, one or more entanglement units to quantum mechanically entangle at least a subset of the one or more atoms in the one or more superposition states with at least another atom of the plurality, and one or more readout optical units to perform measurements of the superposition states to obtain the non-classical computation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Jonathan KING, Benjamin BLOOM, Krish KOTRU, Brian LESTER, Maxwell PARSONS
  • Patent number: 10891556
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for performing non-classical computations. The methods and systems generally use a plurality of spatially distinct optical trapping sites to trap a plurality of atoms, one or more electromagnetic delivery units to apply electromagnetic energy to one or more atoms of the plurality to induce the atoms to adopt one or more superposition states of a first atomic state and a second atomic state, one or more entanglement units to quantum mechanically entangle at least a subset of the one or more atoms in the one or more superposition states with at least another atom of the plurality, and one or more readout optical units to perform measurements of the superposition states to obtain the non-classical computation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: ATOM COMPUTING INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan King, Benjamin Bloom, Krish Kotru, Brian Lester, Maxwell Parsons
  • Publication number: 20200412369
    Abstract: Techniques for implementing robust quantum logic gates are provided and described. In some aspects, a quantum logic gate between a plurality of cavities comprising a first cavity and a second cavity is implemented by performing a first beam splitter operation between the first cavity and the second cavity using a coupling transmon that is dispersively coupled to both the first cavity and the second cavity, and performing a controlled phase shift operation between the second cavity and an ancilla transmon that is dispersively coupled to the second cavity but not dispersively coupled to the first cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: Yale University
    Inventors: Liang Jiang, Steven M. Girvin, Brian Lester, Yvonne Gao, Robert J. Schoelkopf lll