Patents by Inventor Khoi Thi Nguyen

Khoi Thi Nguyen 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: 9530873
    Abstract: A quantum computing device that includes a plurality of semiconductor adiabatic qubits is described herein. The qubits are programmed with local biases and coupling terms between qubits that represent a problem of interest. The qubits are initialized by way of a tuneable parameter, a local tunnel coupling within each qubit, such that the qubits remain in a ground energy state, and that initial state is represented by the qubits being in a superposition of |0> and |1> states. The parameter is altered over time adiabatically or such that relaxation mechanisms maintain a large fraction of ground state occupation through decreasing the tunnel coupling barrier within each qubit with the appropriate schedule. The final state when tunnel coupling is effectively zero represents the solution state to the problem represented in the |0> and |1> basis, which can be accurately read at each qubit location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Sandia Corporation
    Inventors: Malcolm S. Carroll, Wayne Witzel, Noah Tobias Jacobson, Anand Ganti, Andrew J. Landahl, Michael Lilly, Khoi Thi Nguyen, Nathaniel Bishop, Stephen M. Carr, Ezra Bussmann, Erik Nielsen, James Ewers Levy, Robin J. Blume-Kohout, Rajib Rahman