US 12,482,644 B2
Quantum computer based on manipulation of ion chains
Jungsang Kim, Chapel Hill, NC (US); Jonathan Albert Mizrahi, Silver Spring, MD (US); Jason Madjdi Amini, Takoma Park, MD (US); Kenneth Wright, Berwyn Heights, MD (US); Neal Pisenti, Laurel, MD (US); Hermann Uys, Annapolis, MD (US); Ming Li, Takoma Park, MD (US); Michael Lurie Goldman, Annapolis, MD (US); Jeremy Matthew Sage, Acton, MA (US); Kai Makoto Hudek, Hyattsville, MD (US); Yunseong Nam, North Bethesda, MD (US); Nikodem Grzesiak, Morges (CH); and Reinhold Blumel, Middletown, CT (US)
Assigned to IonQ, Inc., College Park, MD (US); and Duke University, Durham, NC (US)
Filed by IonQ, Inc., College Park, MD (US); and Duke University, Durham, NC (US)
Filed on Aug. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/890,864.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/260,441, filed on Aug. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0059264 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. H01J 49/42 (2006.01); H01J 49/00 (2006.01)
CPC H01J 49/422 (2013.01) [H01J 49/0018 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A quantum information processing (QIP) system configured to perform quantum operations, the system comprising:
an ion trap; and
a controller configured to:
control a formation of multiple ion chains in the ion trap, and
generate signals to be applied to the ion trap to shuttle the multiple ion chains between zones in the ion trap to form at least one longer ion chain by merging two or more of the multiple ion chains.