Patents by Inventor Yicong ZHENG

Yicong ZHENG 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: 11893453
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a quantum noise process analysis method, device, and storage medium, in the field of quantum processing technologies. The method may include performing quantum process tomography (QPT) on a quantum noise process of a target quantum system, to obtain dynamical maps of the quantum noise process, wherein the QPT involves at least one measurement of the target quantum. The method further includes extracting transfer tensor maps (TTMs) of the quantum noise process from the dynamical maps; and analyzing the quantum noise process according to the TTMs. The TTM is used for representing a dynamical evolution of the quantum noise process to reflect the law of evolution of the dynamical maps of the quantum noise process over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Changyu Hsieh, Yuqin Chen, Yicong Zheng, Kaili Ma, Shengyu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11874735
    Abstract: This application discloses a fault tolerant computation method and device for a quantum Clifford circuit with reduced resource requirement. The method includes decomposing a quantum Clifford circuit into s logic Clifford circuits and preparing auxiliary quantum states corresponding to the s logic Clifford circuits. For each logic Clifford circuit, the method further includes teleporting an input quantum state corresponding to the logic Clifford circuit to an auxiliary qubit, processing a quantum state obtained after the teleportation by the logic Clifford circuit to obtain a corresponding output quantum state; measuring a corresponding error symptom based on the input quantum state and the auxiliary quantum state; and performing error correction on the output quantum state according to the error symptom to obtain an error-corrected output quantum state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yicong Zheng, Shengyu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11870462
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses a fault tolerant and error correction decoding method and apparatus for a quantum circuit, and a chip. This disclosure relates to the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum technologies. The method includes: obtaining actual error syndrome information of a quantum circuit by performing a noisy error syndrome measurement on the quantum circuit by using a quantum error correction (QEC) code; decoding the actual error syndrome information to obtain a logic error class and perfect error syndrome information that correspond to the actual error syndrome information; and determining error result information of the quantum circuit based on the logic error class and the perfect error syndrome information, the error result information being indicative of a data qubit in which an error occurs in the quantum circuit and a corresponding error class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Yicong Zheng, Shengyu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11842250
    Abstract: A quantum error correction (QEC) decoding system includes an error correction chip. The error correction chip is configured to: obtain error syndrome information of a quantum circuit; and decode the error syndrome information by running neural network decoders, to obtain error result information, a core operation of the neural network decoders being a multiply accumulate (MA) operation of unsigned fixed-point numbers obtained through numerical quantization. According to the present disclosure, for the system that uses the neural network decoders for QEC decoding, the core operation of the neural network decoders is the MA operation of unsigned fixed-point numbers obtained through numerical quantization, thereby minimizing the data volume and the calculation amount desirable by the neural network decoders, so as to better meet the requirement of real-time error correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yicong Zheng, Guanglei Xi, Mengyu Zhang, Hualiang Zhang, Fuming Liu, Shengyu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230195563
    Abstract: This application discloses a fault tolerant computation method and device for a quantum Clifford circuit with reduced resource requirement. The method includes decomposing a quantum Clifford circuit into s logic Clifford circuits and preparing auxiliary quantum states corresponding to the s logic Clifford circuits. For each logic Clifford circuit, the method further includes teleporting an input quantum state corresponding to the logic Clifford circuit to an auxiliary qubit, processing a quantum state obtained after the teleportation by the logic Clifford circuit to obtain a corresponding output quantum state; measuring a corresponding error symptom based on the input quantum state and the auxiliary quantum state; and performing error correction on the output quantum state according to the error symptom to obtain an error-corrected output quantum state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Yicong ZHENG, Shengyu ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11652497
    Abstract: This application discloses a neural network-based QEC decoding method. The method includes: obtaining error syndrome information of a quantum circuit; performing block feature extraction on the error syndrome information by using a neural network decoder, to obtain feature information; and performing fusion decoding processing on the feature information by using the neural network decoder, to obtain error result information, the error result information being used for determining a data qubit in which an error occurs in the quantum circuit and a corresponding error type. In this application, a block feature extraction manner is used, a quantity of channels of feature information obtained by each feature extraction is reduced, and inputted data of next feature extraction is reduced, which reduces a quantity of feature extraction layers in a neural network decoder. Therefore, a decoding time used by the neural network decoder is reduced, thereby achieving real-time error correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yicong Zheng, Shengyu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11567827
    Abstract: This application discloses a fault tolerant computation method and device for a quantum Clifford circuit with reduced resource requirement. The method includes decomposing a quantum Clifford circuit into s logic Clifford circuits and preparing auxiliary quantum states corresponding to the s logic Clifford circuits. For each logic Clifford circuit, the method further includes teleporting an input quantum state corresponding to the logic Clifford circuit to an auxiliary qubit, processing a quantum state obtained after the teleportation by the logic Clifford circuit to obtain a corresponding output quantum state; measuring a corresponding error symptom based on the input quantum state and the auxiliary quantum state; and performing error correction on the output quantum state according to the error symptom to obtain an error-corrected output quantum state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Yicong Zheng, Shengyu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220335324
    Abstract: This application discloses a clock synchronization system, including a quantum control processor (QCP) and N digital/analog mutual conversion devices, each digital/analog mutual conversion device including a frequency conversion module and a signal synchronization module that includes a D flip-flop (DFF). The QCP generates a global synchronization signal and reference clock signals; and transmits the global synchronization signal and a reference clock signal to the frequency conversion module and transmits the global synchronization signal to the signal synchronization module of each conversion device. The frequency conversion module performs frequency conversion processing on the reference clock signal to obtain a target clock signal, and generates a signal synchronization instruction according to the global synchronization signal; and transmits the signal synchronization instruction and the target clock signal to the signal synchronization module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Hualiang ZHANG, Guanglei XI, Mengyu ZHANG, Fuming LIU, Qiaonian YU, Yicong ZHENG, Shengyu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220327413
    Abstract: This application discloses a quantum control system and an instruction execution method. The quantum control system includes: a scheduler, an instruction memory, a plurality of processing units, and corresponding private instruction caches (PICs). The scheduler is configured to determine k sub-circuits executed in parallel in a quantum circuit, k being an integer greater than 1 and not greater than n; obtain instructions respectively corresponding to the k sub-circuits from the instruction memory, and respectively store the instructions into PICs respectively corresponding to k processing units. A target processing unit of the k processing units is configured to obtain an instruction corresponding to a target sub-circuit of the k sub-circuits from a PIC corresponding to the target processing unit for execution, the k processing units executing respective corresponding instructions in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Mengyu ZHANG, Lei Xie, Yicong Zheng, Shengyu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220253742
    Abstract: A quantum error correction (QEC) decoding system includes an error correction chip. The error correction chip is configured to: obtain error syndrome information of a quantum circuit; and decode the error syndrome information by running neural network decoders, to obtain error result information, a core operation of the neural network decoders being a multiply accumulate (MA) operation of unsigned fixed-point numbers obtained through numerical quantization. According to the present disclosure, for the system that uses the neural network decoders for QEC decoding, the core operation of the neural network decoders is the MA operation of unsigned fixed-point numbers obtained through numerical quantization, thereby minimizing the data volume and the calculation amount desirable by the neural network decoders, so as to better meet the requirement of real-time error correction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Yicong ZHENG, Guanglei XI, Mengyu ZHANG, Hualiang ZHANG, Fuming LIU, Shengyu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220092462
    Abstract: This application discloses methods and devices for a quantum chip, a quantum processor and a quantum computer, and relates to the field of quantum technology. The quantum chip includes a bottom sheet and a top sheet; a qubit array disposed on the top sheet, the qubit array comprising a plurality of qubits distributed in an array structure of M rows by N columns, and M and N being both integers greater than 1; a reading cavity disposed on the bottom sheet, and the reading cavity being configured to acquire status information of a qubit in the qubit array; and the bottom sheet and the top sheet being electrically connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Sainan HUAI, Yu ZHOU, Zhenxing ZHANG, Yarui ZHENG, Wenlong ZHANG, Chuhong YANG, Maochun DAI, Yicong ZHENG, Shengyu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20210399743
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses a fault tolerant and error correction decoding method and apparatus for a quantum circuit, and a chip. This disclosure relates to the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum technologies. The method includes: obtaining actual error syndrome information of a quantum circuit by performing a noisy error syndrome measurement on the quantum circuit by using a quantum error correction (QEC) code; decoding the actual error syndrome information to obtain a logic error class and perfect error syndrome information that correspond to the actual error syndrome information; and determining error result information of the quantum circuit based on the logic error class and the perfect error syndrome information, the error result information being indicative of a data qubit in which an error occurs in the quantum circuit and a corresponding error class.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Yicong ZHENG, Shengyu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20210391873
    Abstract: This application discloses a neural network-based QEC decoding method. The method includes: obtaining error syndrome information of a quantum circuit; performing block feature extraction on the error syndrome information by using a neural network decoder, to obtain feature information; and performing fusion decoding processing on the feature information by using the neural network decoder, to obtain error result information, the error result information being used for determining a data qubit in which an error occurs in the quantum circuit and a corresponding error type. In this application, a block feature extraction manner is used, a quantity of channels of feature information obtained by each feature extraction is reduced, and inputted data of next feature extraction is reduced, which reduces a quantity of feature extraction layers in a neural network decoder. Therefore, a decoding time used by the neural network decoder is reduced, thereby achieving real-time error correction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Yicong ZHENG, Shengyu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20210224150
    Abstract: This application discloses a fault tolerant computation method and device for a quantum Clifford circuit with reduced resource requirement. The method includes decomposing a quantum Clifford circuit into s logic Clifford circuits and preparing auxiliary quantum states corresponding to the s logic Clifford circuits. For each logic Clifford circuit, the method further includes teleporting an input quantum state corresponding to the logic Clifford circuit to an auxiliary qubit, processing a quantum state obtained after the teleportation by the logic Clifford circuit to obtain a corresponding output quantum state; measuring a corresponding error symptom based on the input quantum state and the auxiliary quantum state; and performing error correction on the output quantum state according to the error symptom to obtain an error-corrected output quantum state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Yicong ZHENG, Shengyu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20210166149
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a quantum noise process analysis method, device, and storage medium, in the field of quantum processing technologies. The method may include performing quantum process tomography (QPT) on a quantum noise process of a target quantum system, to obtain dynamical maps of the quantum noise process, wherein the QPT involves at least one measurement of the target quantum. The method further includes extracting transfer tensor maps (TTMs) of the quantum noise process from the dynamical maps; and analyzing the quantum noise process according to the TTMs. The TTM is used for representing a dynamical evolution of the quantum noise process to reflect the law of evolution of the dynamical maps of the quantum noise process over time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Changyu HSIEH, Yuqin CHEN, Yicong ZHENG, Kaili MA, Shengyu ZHANG