Quantum X Labs Inc. (NASDAQ: QXL) announced that its subsidiary, Quantum X Labs Ltd., has filed a patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a technology titled "Structured-Beam Zeeman Slower and Atomic Push-Beam System."

The application covers laser cooling, manipulation, and transport of neutral atoms, with a focus on a Zeeman slowing apparatus that uses optical beams with a non-Gaussian spatial intensity distribution. Zeeman slowing is an established technique that uses laser light and a spatially varying magnetic field to decelerate atoms to velocities suitable for trapping and further manipulation.

The patent application introduces structured optical beams into the atom-slowing process as an alternative to conventional Gaussian beam profiles. The approach is intended to provide additional control over how optical forces interact with an atomic beam during slowing, pushing, guiding, and transport. The application also addresses the use of structured optical fields in atomic push-beam systems, where optical radiation pressure directs cooled atoms between regions of a quantum computing system.

The technology is part of Quantum X Labs' cold-atom quantum computing program, which focuses on the preparation, cooling, transport, and control of atoms as a foundational layer of its computing architecture.

Prof. Nir Sharon, Chief Technology Scientist of Quantum X Labs, said: "A cold-atom quantum computer begins with the ability to control atoms with exceptional precision. Before atoms can be trapped and used for quantum operations, they need to be slowed, cooled, transported and positioned. This patent application reflects our strategy of developing proprietary technology not only at the quantum-processing level, but also across the underlying physical infrastructure required to build and operate cold-atom quantum computing systems."

Quantum X Labs, based in Tel Aviv, Israel, operates across quantum computing, quantum sensing, quantum software, and quantum security, alongside digital advertising and enterprise artificial intelligence solutions.