US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Sparse simulation of Clifford-dominated quantum circuits" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,517, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Sparse simulation of Clifford-dominated quantum circuits" was invented by Thomas Haener (Zug, Switzerland) and Helmut Gottfried Katzgraber (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum computing service includes a quantum simulator using classical hardware configured to perform a sparse simulation of a Clifford dominated quantum circuit that includes at least some non-Clifford gates. The non-Clifford gates are represented using a Clifford portion and a non-Clifford portion, wherein application of the Clifford portion of the non-Clifford gates inc...