Patents by Inventor Ivano Tavernelli

Ivano Tavernelli 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: 11966813
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for error mitigation in quantum programs. In some embodiments, a system can include a processor that executes computer-executable components stored in memory. The computer-executable components include a compilation component that causes encoding of one or more qubits according to a circular repetition code at a time after operations on the one or more qubits and before readout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Panagiotis Barkoutsos, Jakob Max Guenther, Francesco Tacchino, James Robin Wootton, Ivano Tavernelli
  • Publication number: 20240119325
    Abstract: Techniques for facilitating utilizing a quantum computing circuit in conjunction with a stochastic control problem are provided. In one embodiment, a system is provided that comprises a quantum computing circuit that prepares a quantum state that represents a stochastic control problem. The system can further comprise a classical computing device that determines parameters for the quantum computing circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Stefan WOERNER, Panagiotis BARKOUTSOS, Ivano TAVERNELLI
  • Publication number: 20240119328
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a quantum system of dimension M comprising a transmon device. The transmon device is in an initial state ?ini which is restricted to a state ?S of a N-dimensional quantum system embedded in the quantum system, where N<M. The transmon device is configured to receive a sequence of pulses for transforming the initial state ?ini to a state ?ext of the quantum system. The transmon device is connected to a readout that is configured to perform a projection-valued measure (PVM) of the transmon device in its state ?ext.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Miller, Laurin Elias Fischer, Panagiotis Barkoutsos, Francesco Tacchino, Daniel Josef Egger, Ivano Tavernelli
  • Patent number: 11942192
    Abstract: Techniques facilitating density-functional theory determinations using a quantum computing system are provided. A system can comprise a first computing processor and a second computing processor. The first computing processor can generate a density-functional theory determination. The second computing processor can input a quantum density into the density-functional theory determination. The first computing processor can be operatively coupled to the second computing processor. Further, the first computing processor can be a classical computer and the second computing processor can be a quantum computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ivano Tavernelli, Panagiotis Barkoutsos, Pauline Ollitrault, Max Rossmannek
  • Patent number: 11816594
    Abstract: Techniques for facilitating utilizing a quantum computing circuit in conjunction with a stochastic control problem are provided. In one embodiment, a system is provided that comprises a quantum computing circuit that prepares a quantum state that represents a stochastic control problem. The system can further comprise a classical computing device that determines parameters for the quantum computing circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stefan Woerner, Panagiotis Barkoutsos, Ivano Tavernelli
  • Patent number: 11803611
    Abstract: Techniques of facilitating improved computational efficiency in Variational Quantum Eigensolver calculations by quantum computing devices. In one example, a system can comprise a processor that executes computer executable components stored in memory. The computer executable components can comprise: a distribution component; and a feedback component. The distribution component can set a Pauli-dependent sample budget for a Pauli term of an operator to unevenly distribute a total sample budget for evaluating an expected value of the operator among a plurality of Pauli terms composing the operator. The plurality of Pauli terms can comprise the Pauli term. The feedback component can evaluate compatibility between a prescreening variance for the Pauli term and a production variance of the Pauli term generated using the Pauli-dependent sample budget.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Guglielmo Mazzola, Pauline Ollitrault, Ivano Tavernelli
  • Patent number: 11728011
    Abstract: A method of designing a molecule for an environment of interest using a quantum computer includes providing a linear superposition of a plurality of molecular species, the plurality of molecular species being initially weighted by equal initial coefficients; determining a lowest-energy quantum state for the superposition of the plurality of molecular species in a vacuum environment and in the environment of interest using a quantum optimization process; calculating a difference in lowest energy states between the vacuum environment and the environment of interest for each molecular species to provide a cost of the superposition of the plurality of molecular species; performing a quantum optimization process to determine a minimum cost for the superposition of the plurality of molecular species and to determine updated coefficients weighting the plurality of molecular species; and identifying the molecule for the environment of interest based on a comparison of the updated coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ivano Tavernelli, Panagiotis Barkoutsos, Stefan Woerner, Alessandro Curioni, Fotios Gkritsis
  • Publication number: 20230186133
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate multireference parallelization of variational quantum computing to achieve high accuracy with short circuit depths. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor that executes computer executable components stored in memory. The computer executable components comprise a trial component that prepares a multireference trial state based on a qubit operator, by applying a unitary circuit operator to a sum of selected initial configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Pauline Ollitrault, Guglielmo Mazzola, Ivano Tavernelli
  • Patent number: 11676056
    Abstract: A method for calculating excited state properties of a molecular system using a hybrid classical-quantum computing system includes determining, using a quantum processor and memory, a ground state wavefunction of a combination of quantum logic gates. In an embodiment, the method includes forming a set of excitation operators. In an embodiment, the method includes forming a set of commutators from the set of excitation operators and a Hamiltonian operator. In an embodiment, the method includes mapping the set of commutators onto a set of qubit states, the set of qubit states corresponding to a set of qubits of the quantum processor. In an embodiment, the method includes evaluating, using the quantum processor and memory, the set of commutators. In an embodiment, the method includes causing a quantum readout circuit to measure an excited state energy from the set of computed commutators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Pauline Ollitrault, Panagiotis Barkoutsos, Stefan Woerner, Marco Pistoia, Antonio Mezzacapo, Ivano Tavernelli
  • Patent number: 11551128
    Abstract: Techniques regarding determining a three-dimensional structure of a heteropolymer are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a polymer folding component that can generate a course-grained model to determine a three-dimensional structure of a heteropolymer based on a first qubit registry that encodes a conformation of the heteropolymer on a lattice and a second qubit registry that encodes an interaction distance between monomers comprised within the heteropolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anton Robert, Panagiotis Barkoutsos, Stefan Woerner, Ivano Tavernelli
  • Patent number: 11544611
    Abstract: Techniques regarding quantum computation of molecular excited states are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise an initialization component that can categorize a plurality of excited operators from a mapped qubit Hamiltonian into sectors based on a commutation property of the plurality of excited operators with a symmetry from the mapped qubit Hamiltonian. The computer executable components can also comprise a matrix component that can generate an equation of motion matrix from an excited operator from the plurality of excited operators based on the sectors categorized by the initialization component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard Chen, Antonio Mezzacapo, Marco Pistoia, Pauline Ollitrault, Ivano Tavernelli, Jay M. Gambetta
  • Patent number: 11494532
    Abstract: Techniques and a system to facilitate simulation-based optimization on a quantum computer are provided. In one example, a system includes a quantum processor. The quantum processor performs a quantum amplitude estimation process based on a probabilistic distribution associated with a decision-making problem. Furthermore, the quantum processor includes a simulator that simulates the decision-making problem based on the quantum amplitude estimation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stefan Woerner, Christa Zoufal, Daniel Josef Egger, Panagiotis Barkoutsos, Ivano Tavernelli
  • Publication number: 20220300845
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for error mitigation in quantum programs. In some embodiments, a system can include a processor that executes computer-executable components stored in memory. The computer-executable components include a compilation component that causes encoding of one or more qubits according to a circular repetition code at a time after operations on the one or more qubits and before readout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Panagiotis Barkoutsos, Jakob Max Guenther, Francesco Tacchino, James Robin Wootton, Ivano Tavernelli
  • Patent number: 11392849
    Abstract: Systems and methods that facilitate motion formalism utilizing quantum computing, to compute matrix operators in terms of commutators between qubit operators and measurements on the quantum hardware, wherein the commutators are computed utilizing symbolic calculus. Embodiments reduce computational cost of generalized eigenvalue synthesis relying on symbolic calculus and parallelization. Embodiments disclosed herein can also develop estimators of excited-states properties, considering constants of motion (e.g. spin) and non-constants of motions (e.g. dipoles, density matrices).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignees: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, JSR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mario Motta, Pauline Ollitrault, Stephen Wood, Panagiotis Barkoutsos, Joseph Latone, Ivano Tavernelli, Gavin Jones, Edward Pyzer-Knapp, Yuya Onishi
  • Publication number: 20220179921
    Abstract: Techniques of facilitating improved computational efficiency in Variational Quantum Eigensolver calculations by quantum computing devices. In one example, a system can comprise a processor that executes computer executable components stored in memory. The computer executable components can comprise: a distribution component; and a feedback component. The distribution component can set a Pauli-dependent sample budget for a Pauli term of an operator to unevenly distribute a total sample budget for evaluating an expected value of the operator among a plurality of Pauli terms composing the operator. The plurality of Pauli terms can comprise the Pauli term. The feedback component can evaluate compatibility between a prescreening variance for the Pauli term and a production variance of the Pauli term generated using the Pauli-dependent sample budget.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Guglielmo Mazzola, Pauline Ollitrault, Ivano Tavernelli
  • Publication number: 20220092458
    Abstract: Systems and methods that facilitate motion formalism utilizing quantum computing, to compute matrix operators in terms of commutators between qubit operators and measurements on the quantum hardware, wherein the commutators are computed utilizing symbolic calculus. Embodiments reduce computational cost of generalized eigenvalue synthesis relying on symbolic calculus and parallelization. Embodiments disclosed herein can also develop estimators of excited-states properties, considering constants of motion (e.g. spin) and non-constants of motions (e.g. dipoles, density matrices).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Mario Motta, Pauline Ollitrault, Stephen Wood, Panagiotis Barkoutsos, Joseph Latone, Ivano Tavernelli, Gavin Jones, Edward Pyzer-Knapp, Yuya Onishi
  • Publication number: 20220012382
    Abstract: Techniques facilitating density-functional theory determinations using a quantum computing system are provided. A system can comprise a first computing processor and a second computing processor. The first computing processor can generate a density-functional theory determination. The second computing processor can input a quantum density into the density-functional theory determination. The first computing processor can be operatively coupled to the second computing processor. Further, the first computing processor can be a classical computer and the second computing processor can be a quantum computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Ivano Tavernelli, Panagiotis Barkoutsos, Pauline Ollitrault, Max Rossmannek
  • Publication number: 20210035003
    Abstract: Techniques regarding determining a three-dimensional structure of a heteropolymer are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a polymer folding component that can generate a course-grained model to determine a three-dimensional structure of a heteropolymer based on a first qubit registry that encodes a conformation of the heteropolymer on a lattice and a second qubit registry that encodes an interaction distance between monomers comprised within the heteropolymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Anton Robert, Panagiotis Barkoutsos, Stefan Woerner, Ivano Tavernelli
  • Patent number: 10902085
    Abstract: Solving mixed integer problems using a hybrid classical-quantum computing system includes generating a plurality of decision variables for a function associated with a combinatorial optimization problem by a first processor using an optimizer, and deriving at least one quantum state parameter for a quantum processor based upon one or more of the decision variables. The quantum processor is initiated in a quantum state based upon the at least one quantum state parameter. A plurality of intermediate quantum states of the quantum processor are measured using a plurality of quantum measurements of the quantum state to obtain a plurality of samples. The plurality of samples are evaluated by the first processor to obtain a measure of a quality of the quantum state and of one or more solutions to the combinatorial optimization problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stefan Woerner, Giacomo Nannicini, Panagiotis Barkoutsos, Ivano Tavernelli
  • Publication number: 20200394276
    Abstract: Techniques and a system to facilitate simulation-based optimization on a quantum computer are provided. In one example, a system includes a quantum processor. The quantum processor performs a quantum amplitude estimation process based on a probabilistic distribution associated with a decision-making problem. Furthermore, the quantum processor includes a simulator that simulates the decision-making problem based on the quantum amplitude estimation process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Stefan Woerner, Christa Zoufal, Daniel Josef Egger, Panagiotis Barkoutsos, Ivano Tavernelli