US Patent Issued to IonQ on July 15 for "Methods and apparatuses for mapping state preparation error to subspace leakage error" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,310, issued on July 15, was assigned to IonQ Inc (College Park, Md.).

"Methods and apparatuses for mapping state preparation error to subspace leakage error" was invented by Michael Lurie Goldman (Unviersity Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure may include a method and/or a system for identifying an ion chain having a plurality of trapped ions, selecting at least two non-consecutive trapped ions in the ion chain for implementing a qubit, applying at least a first Raman beam to shuttle at least one neighbor ion of the at least two non-consecutive trapped ions from a ground state to a metastable st...