Patents by Inventor Connor Hann

Connor Hann 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).

  • Patent number: 11941483
    Abstract: A fault tolerant quantum computer is implementing using hybrid acoustic-electric qubits. A control circuit includes an asymmetrically threaded superconducting quantum interference devices (ATS) that excites phonons in a mechanical resonator by driving a storage mode of the mechanical resonator and dissipates phonons from the mechanical resonator via an open transmission line coupled to the control circuit, wherein the open transmission line is configured to absorb photons from a dump mode of the control circuit. Filters are included in the control circuit to suppress cross-talk errors. Additionally, frequencies and pump mode detunings for respective multiplexed control circuits are strategically selected to reduce cross-talk errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Connor Hann, Kyungjoo Noh, Patricio Arrangoiz Arriola, Christopher Chamberland, Fernando Brandao
  • Patent number: 11580436
    Abstract: Extra edges are added to a group of edges for use in decoding syndrome measurements of a surface code implemented using hybrid acoustic-electric qubits. The extra edges include two-dimensional cross-edges and three-dimensional space-time correlated edges that identify correlated errors arising from spurious photon dissipation processes of a multiplexed control circuit that leads to cross-talk between storage modes of a set of the mechanical resonators controlled by the given multiplexed control circuit. Additionally, error probabilities used for edge weighting incorporate error probabilities due to the spurious photon dissipation processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Chamberland, Kyungjoo Noh, Connor Hann, Fernando Brandao
  • Patent number: 11436398
    Abstract: A method of simulating quantum gates includes shifting a Fock basis for the simulation such that the simulation can be performed in a smaller (e.g. truncated) Hilbert dimension space. To shift the Fock basis, non-orthonormalized basis states are first defined. The defined basis states are then orthonormalized to construct orthonormalized shifted Fock basis state. Matrix elements are determined for an operator in the orthonormalized shifted Fock basis and the operator is used to simulate the quantum gate in the shifted Fock basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyungjoo Noh, Joseph Kramer Iverson, Connor Hann
  • Publication number: 20220180236
    Abstract: A fault tolerant quantum computer is implementing using hybrid acoustic-electric qubits. A control circuit includes an asymmetrically threaded superconducting quantum interference devices (ATS) that excites phonons in a mechanical resonator by driving a storage mode of the mechanical resonator and dissipates phonons from the mechanical resonator via an open transmission line coupled to the control circuit, wherein the open transmission line is configured to absorb photons from a dump mode of the control circuit. Filters are included in the control circuit to suppress cross-talk errors. Additionally, frequencies and pump mode detunings for respective multiplexed control circuits are strategically selected to reduce cross-talk errors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Connor Hann, Kyungjoo Noh, Patricio Arrangoiz Arriola, Christopher Chamberland, Fernando Brandao
  • Publication number: 20220178995
    Abstract: Extra edges are added to a group of edges for use in decoding syndrome measurements of a surface code implemented using hybrid acoustic-electric qubits. The extra edges include two-dimensional cross-edges and three-dimensional space-time correlated edges that identify correlated errors arising from spurious photon dissipation processes of a multiplexed control circuit that leads to cross-talk between storage modes of a set of the mechanical resonators controlled by the given multiplexed control circuit. Additionally, error probabilities used for edge weighting incorporate error probabilities due to the spurious photon dissipation processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Chamberland, Kyungjoo Noh, Connor Hann, Fernando Brandao
  • Publication number: 20220156621
    Abstract: A fault tolerant quantum computer is implemented using hybrid acoustic-electric qubits. A control circuit includes an asymmetrically threaded superconducting quantum interference devices (ATS) that excites excite phonons in a mechanical resonator by driving a storage mode of the mechanical resonator and dissipates phonons from the mechanical resonator via an open transmission line coupled to the control circuit, wherein the open transmission line is configured to absorb photons from a dump mode of the control circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Patricio Arrangoiz Arriola, Amir Safavi-Naeini, Oskar Jon Painter, Connor Hann, Fernando Brandao, Kyungjoo Noh, Joseph Kramer Iverson, Harald Esko Jakob Putterman, Christopher Chamberland, Earl Campbell
  • Publication number: 20220156444
    Abstract: A method of simulating quantum gates includes shifting a Fock basis for the simulation such that the simulation can be performed in a smaller (e.g. truncated) Hilbert dimension space. To shift the Fock basis, non-orthonormalized basis states are first defined. The defined basis states are then orthonormalized to construct orthonormalized shifted Fock basis state. Matrix elements are determined for an operator in the orthonormalized shifted Fock basis and the operator is used to simulate the quantum gate in the shifted Fock basis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyungjoo Noh, Joseph Kramer Iverson, Connor Hann
  • Publication number: 20220147266
    Abstract: Techniques for implementing a QRAM by routing quantum information through multiple modes of a bosonic system are described. According to some aspects, a single bosonic system may be configured to maintain quantum information in a large number of independent modes at the same time. Suitable operations upon these modes may allow a quantum address value to be routed to modes associated with respective bits such that the only modes altered by the operations are those associated with the addresses being accessed. These modes may be operated upon based on the stored values then extracted to obtain the desired correlated superposition of the stored bit values in the addresses. The bits stored at the address locations may be classical bits, or may be qubits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Yale University
    Inventors: Connor Hann, Changling Zou, Yiwen Chu, Yaxing Zhang, Robert J. Schoelkopf III, Steven M. Girvin, Liang Jiang
  • Patent number: 11321627
    Abstract: A fault tolerant quantum computer is implemented using hybrid acoustic-electric qubits. A control circuit includes an asymmetrically threaded superconducting quantum interference devices (ATS) that excites excite phonons in a mechanical resonator by driving a storage mode of the mechanical resonator and dissipates phonons from the mechanical resonator via an open transmission line coupled to the control circuit, wherein the open transmission line is configured to absorb photons from a dump mode of the control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Patricio Arrangoiz Arriola, Amir Safavi-Naeini, Oskar Jon Painter, Connor Hann, Fernando Brandao, Kyungjoo Noh, Joseph Kramer Iverson, Harald Esko Jakob Putterman, Christopher Chamberland, Earl Campbell