US Patent Issued to UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS on March 18 for "System and methods for producing magic states for universal quantum computation using GKP error correction" (Australian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,382, issued on March 18, was assigned to UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"System and methods for producing magic states for universal quantum computation using GKP error correction" was invented by Rafael Alexander (Albuquerque, N.M.), Nick Menicucci (Melbourne, Australia), Ben Baragiola (Melbourne, Australia), Giacomo Pantaleoni (Melbourne, Australia) and Angela Karanjai (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Applying Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) error correction to Gaussian input states, such as vacuum, produces distillable magic states, achieving universality without additional non-Gaussian elements. Gaussian o...