US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) on Dec. 16 for "Controlling a quantum computing system using imaginary-time evolution" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,381, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Controlling a quantum computing system using imaginary-time evolution" was invented by Yuqin Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Shengyu Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum computing method includes determining an initial quantum state of a quantum system, and inputting the initial quantum state to a quantum circuit corresponding to the quantum system and obtaining a quantum state outputted by the quantum circuit, wherein the outputted quantum state is a quantum circuit generation state corresponding to the quantum sy...