Quantum X Labs Seeks Patent for Structured-Beam Atom Cooling System

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• Quantum X Labs has filed a USPTO patent application for a structured-beam Zeeman slower and atomic push-beam system for its cold-atom quantum computing program.
• The proposed technology uses non-Gaussian optical beam profiles to control how laser forces slow, guide, push, and transport neutral atoms.
• The application targets the physical preparation and control systems needed to cool, position, and manipulate atoms before quantum operations.

PRESS RELEASE — Quantum X Labs Inc. (NASDAQ: QXL) (“Quantum X Labs” or the “Company”) today announced that its subsidiary, Quantum X Labs Ltd., a developer of technologies across quantum computing, quantum sensing, quantum software and quantum security, has filed a patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) titled “Structured-Beam Zeeman Slower and Atomic Push-Beam System”.

The patent application relates to technologies for the laser cooling, manipulation and transport of neutral atoms, with particular focus on a Zeeman slowing apparatus in which at least one optical beam used for slowing, pushing, guiding or otherwise manipulating an atomic beam has a non-Gaussian spatial intensity distribution.

The technology covered by the patent application is being developed as part of Quantum X Labs’ cold-atom quantum computing program, where the preparation, cooling, transport and precise control of atoms represent fundamental elements of the physical architecture required to prepare atoms for subsequent trapping and quantum operations.