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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2022
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Christina Paulsen Knapp, Goleta, CA (US);
Roman Bela Bauer, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Torsten Karzig, Redwood City, CA (US);
Jonne Verneri Koski, The Hague, NL;
Roman Mykolayovych Lutchyn, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Dmitry Pikulin, Vancouver, CA;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Quantum devices formed from a single superconducting wire having a configurable ground connection are described. An example quantum device, configurable to be grounded, comprises a single superconducting wire having at least a first section and a second section, each of which is configurable to be in a topological phase and at least a third section configurable to be in a trivial phase. The quantum device further comprises semiconducting regions formed adjacent to the single superconducting wire, where the single superconducting wire is configurable to store quantum information in at least four Majorana zero modes (MZMs). The semiconducting regions formed adjacent to the single superconducting wire may be used to measure quantum information stored in the at least four MZMs.