US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Nov. 3 for "Quantum computer and control method therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,927, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Quantum computer and control method therefor" was invented by Takeru Utsugi (Tokyo), Noriyuki Lee (Tokyo), Ryuta Tsuchiya (Tokyo), Digh Hisamoto (Tokyo) and Toshiyuki Mine (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One preferred aspect of the invention is a quantum computer of a semiconductor, including: a semiconductor crystalline substrate; a gate electrode array structure formed on a surface of the semiconductor crystalline substrate; and a reservoir unit that is a carrier supply unit, in which a classic potential barrier is formed in the semiconductor crystalline substrate b...