Patent Issued for Accelerator-Based Quantum Computing Concept

Professor Thomas Robertazzi	Adjunct Professor Kevin Brown

Thomas Robertazzi, Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stony Brook University, and Kevin Brown, Physicist and Control Systems Head in the Collider-Accelerator Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory (and Adjunct Professor, ECE), have been issued a patent for a method that uses a particle accelerator as a quantum computer-a storage-ring quantum computer (SRQC).

The patent, which the inventors submitted roughly four to five years ago, describes practical implementation details for using accelerator hardware and storage-ring dynamics to realize quantum computation. The core idea was originally developed by Kevin Brown and a retired Brookhaven colleague (who holds an earlier, related patent); the newly issued patent with Professor Robertazzi focuses on practical methods to implement the approach.

About the innovation

The patented technology relates to the use of storage-ring particle accelerators as a platform for quantum information storage and manipulation. By leveraging accelerator physics and control methods, the approach aims to translate theoretical concepts into practical implementation strategies that could enable new architectures for large-scale quantum systems.

Inventors and affiliations

• Thomas Robertazzi, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stony Brook University.

• Kevin Brown, Physicist; Control Systems Head, Collider-Accelerator Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Adjunct Professor, ECE Department, Stony Brook University.