Patents by Inventor William Huggins

William Huggins 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: 20260260144
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure are directed to a method for operating a quantum computing system (QCS) to load classical data. The method includes configuring a quantum circuit to implement a target classical function that is defined over a string of input bits. The target classical function is decomposed into a set of parity sub-functions. A set of quantum registers of the QCS is initialized with a superposition of input states corresponding to the string of input bits. A sequence of Quantum Read-Only Memory (QROM) operations is executed on the set of quantum registers to generate a set of outputs. Each QROM operation of the sequence of QROM operations encodes a separate parity sub-function of the set of parity sub-functions. Each output of the set of outputs is routed to a separate output register of a set of output registers of the QCS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2026
    Publication date: September 3, 2026
    Inventors: William Huggins, Tanuj Khattar, Craig Gidney
  • Publication number: 20250265487
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for determining an error-mitigated expectation value of a target observable with respect to a noisy quantum state. In one aspect a method includes obtaining multiple copies of the noisy quantum state; performing measurements on tensor products of M copies of the noisy quantum state to compute an expectation value of the target observable with respect to an entangled quantum state, wherein M?1 and eigenvalues corresponding to non-dominant eigenvectors of the noisy quantum state in the spectral decomposition of the entangled quantum state are suppressed exponentially in M; and using the computed expectation value of the target observable with respect to an entangled quantum state to determine the error-mitigated expectation value of the target observable with respect to the noisy quantum state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2025
    Publication date: August 21, 2025
    Inventors: William Huggins, Jarrod Ryan McClean
  • Publication number: 20250191700
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for measuring the energy of a quantum chemical system. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a Hamiltonian describing the chemical system, where the Hamiltonian is expressed in an orthonormal basis; decomposing the Hamiltonian into a sum of terms where each term comprises a respective operator that effects a respective single particle basis rotation, and one or more particle density operators; repeatedly, for each group comprising terms with a same operator that effects a respective single particle basis rotation, measuring expectation values of the terms included in the group, comprising: performing the respective single particle basis rotation on a qubit system encoding a state of the chemical system; and measuring Jordan-Wigner transformations of the one or more particle density operators in the group to obtain a respective measurement result for the group; and determining the energy of the chemical system using the obtained measurement results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2025
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Inventors: Ryan Babbush, William Huggins, Jarrod Ryan McClean
  • Patent number: 12282827
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for determining an error-mitigated expectation value of a target observable with respect to a noisy quantum state. In one aspect a method includes obtaining multiple copies of the noisy quantum state; performing measurements on tensor products of M copies of the noisy quantum state to compute an expectation value of the target observable with respect to an entangled quantum state, wherein M?1 and eigenvalues corresponding to non-dominant eigenvectors of the noisy quantum state in the spectral decomposition of the entangled quantum state are suppressed exponentially in M; and using the computed expectation value of the target observable with respect to an entangled quantum state to determine the error-mitigated expectation value of the target observable with respect to the noisy quantum state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: William Huggins, Jarrod Ryan McClean
  • Patent number: 12249404
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for measuring the energy of a quantum chemical system. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a Hamiltonian describing the chemical system, where the Hamiltonian is expressed in an orthonormal basis; decomposing the Hamiltonian into a sum of terms where each term comprises a respective operator that effects a respective single particle basis rotation, and one or more particle density operators; repeatedly, for each group comprising terms with a same operator that effects a respective single particle basis rotation, measuring expectation values of the terms included in the group, comprising: performing the respective single particle basis rotation on a qubit system encoding a state of the chemical system; and measuring Jordan-Wigner transformations of the one or more particle density operators in the group to obtain a respective measurement result for the group; and determining the energy of the chemical system using the obtained measurement results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Babbush, William Huggins, Jarrod Ryan McClean
  • Publication number: 20240346360
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for simulating a quantum system. In one aspect, a method includes performing a first quantized quantum algorithm on an initial quantum state to simulate time evolution of a fermionic system and generate a time evolved quantum state; and measuring, by the quantum computer, the time evolved quantum state to obtain one or more reduced density matrices in first quantization, the measuring including performing a classical shadows method that applies separate random Clifford channels to each qubit register of multiple qubit registers that represent respective occupied orbitals in the fermionic system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Ryan Babbush, Joonho Lee, William Huggins
  • Publication number: 20240296362
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for hybrid quantum-classical quantum Monte Carlo.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: William Huggins, Joonho Lee, Ryan Babbush
  • Publication number: 20240013087
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for determining an error-mitigated expectation value of a target observable with respect to a noisy quantum state. In one aspect a method includes obtaining multiple copies of the noisy quantum state; performing measurements on tensor products of M copies of the noisy quantum state to compute an expectation value of the target observable with respect to an entangled quantum state, wherein M?1 and eigenvalues corresponding to non-dominant eigenvectors of the noisy quantum state in the spectral decomposition of the entangled quantum state are suppressed exponentially in M; and using the computed expectation value of the target observable with respect to an entangled quantum state to determine the error-mitigated expectation value of the target observable with respect to the noisy quantum state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: William Huggins, Jarrod Ryan McClean
  • Publication number: 20230385674
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for enhancing classical shadows using matchgate quantum circuits. In one aspect, a method for computing a classical shadow of an n-qubit quantum state includes repeatedly sampling, by a classical computer, a unitary operator from an ensemble of random unitaries, wherein the ensemble of random unitaries comprises a generalized matchgate group; for each sampled unitary operator: applying, by a quantum computer, a quantum circuit to the n-qubit quantum state to obtain an evolved quantum state, wherein the quantum circuit implements the sampled unitary operator, measuring, by the quantum computer, the evolved quantum state to obtain a respective bit string, and storing, by the classical computer, a record of the respective bit string and the sampled unitary operator; and providing the records as a classical shadow of the quantum state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Kianna Wan, William Huggins
  • Publication number: 20220254453
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for measuring the energy of a quantum chemical system. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a Hamiltonian describing the chemical system, where the Hamiltonian is expressed in an orthonormal basis; decomposing the Hamiltonian into a sum of terms where each term comprises a respective operator that effects a respective single particle basis rotation, and one or more particle density operators; repeatedly, for each group comprising terms with a same operator that effects a respective single particle basis rotation, measuring expectation values of the terms included in the group, comprising: performing the respective single particle basis rotation on a qubit system encoding a state of the chemical system; and measuring Jordan-Wigner transformations of the one or more particle density operators in the group to obtain a respective measurement result for the group; and determining the energy of the chemical system using the obtained measurement results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Ryan Babbush, William Huggins, Jarrod Ryan McClean