US Patent Issued to UT-Battelle on June 17 for "Electro-optical circuit for performing topological quantum computation" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,384, issued on June 17, was assigned to UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Electro-optical circuit for performing topological quantum computation" was invented by Matthew J. Brahlek (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Eugene Dumitrescu (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Gabor Halasz (Knoxville, Tenn.), Chengyun Hua (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Benjamin J. Lawrie (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum processing device having a type II superconducting medium is provided. Majorana-carrying vortices may be created at some of the defects in the medium by a magnetic flux source. Once created, one or more vortices may be depinned from its departure locat...