US Patent Issued to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE on Jan. 20 for "Performing state reversal on a quantum spin chain" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,606, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Gaitherburg, Md.).

"Performing state reversal on a quantum spin chain" was invented by Alexey Vyacheslavovich Gorshkov (Rockville, Md.), Aniruddha Bapat (College Park, Md.), Eddie Schoute (College Park, Md.) and Andrew Childs (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Performing state reversal on a quantum spin chain includes: providing qubits in a quantum spin chain in an input state, such that the quantum spin chain includes: first and second terminal qubits and one or more intermediate qubits, such th...