US Patent Issued to Tsinghua University on May 27 for "Dual-type qubits system, quantum network and construction method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,814, issued on May 27, was assigned to Tsinghua University (Beijing).

"Dual-type qubits system, quantum network and construction method thereof" was invented by Luming Duan (Beijing) and Haoxiang Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual-type qubit system, a quantum network based on the dual-type qubit system and a construction method thereof are provided. The dual-type qubit system includes two types of qubits. The two types of qubits, with different functions, are implemented by the same species of ions. The ion has at least two sets of long-lived energy levels. The two types of qubits, carried by spectrally different set...