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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2017
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventor:
Matthew Hastings, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/19 (2006.01); G06N 10/00 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/19 (2013.01); G06N 10/00 (2019.01);
Abstract
The disclosed technology concerns tools and techniques for implementing error-correction codes in a quantum computing device. In particular embodiments, Majorana fermion stabilizer codes having small numbers of modes and distance are disclosed. Particular embodiments have an upper bound on the number of logical qubits for distance 4 codes, and Majorana fermion codes are constructed that saturate this bound. Other distance 4 and 6 codes are also disclosed.