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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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Claim(s) 1,2,3,4,5 and 9 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Dylewysky et al ( NPL, EXACT CALCULATION OF PHONON EFFECTS ON SPIN SQUEEZING, arXiv:1510.05003v1 [cond-mat.quant-gas] 16 Oct 2015)
Re claim 1, 2 and 5:
The reference to Dylewysky et al, from the same field of endeavor, N-body entanglement with displacement and squeezing, see figures and text below, shows how laser pulses with one or more parameters configured to be applied to a plurality of target IONS(trapped) in series:
On page 3, col.1.: after description of equation(4):
Re displacement(motional transitions):
“The position operator along the z-direction for the j th ion, denoted ˆzj , can be expanded in terms of creation and annihilation operators for the normal modes of the crystal as P krelzˆj = Σα ηαb^α j (ˆa † α + ˆaα). Here, b α j is the orthogonal normal mode transformation matrix, and ηα = krel
ħ/(2mωα) (restoring ħ temporarily) parametrizes how small the characteristic ion displacements in the ground state…”
Re qubit state squeezing:
See sec. IV: Spin Squeezing and figures 1, 2 and 3:
As shown below in figure 2, with the inherent parameters, coupling strength(g) and characteristic energy(ω, timing frequency), laser pulses are used on target IONS as shown below: note each pulse inherently has an (intensity)and is tuned to the target resonance of the trapped ION(s).
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The trapped IONS also undergo spin squeezing(see below) as noted for the trapped IONS(shown above),
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The result of this is better entanglement interaction due to enhanced coupling strength as noted in the reference abstract. THE METHOD STEPS BEING INHERENT.
Re claim 3: The target IONS have a spin up/down property that is affected by the laser and thus the quantum state of each respective qubit is driven, accordingly. See figure 2.
Re claim 4: Motion/displacement is discussed above as well as the squeezing, for each qubit and the quantum state property, spin, is affected.
Re claim 9: The displacement operations are qubit state dependent(i.e. ground state) as noted above.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 6, 7 and 8 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Claims 10-20 are allowed.
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ARNOLD M. KINKEAD
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2849
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