This podcast takes you behind the scenes into the world of quantum computing research: through conversations with researchers, we explore the latest and most exciting ideas in the field. The podcast is aimed at anyone interested in quantum computing. About the hosts: Vincent Russo (https://vprusso.github.io/) has a PhD in computer science. Software engineer by day and quantum engineer by night. William Slofstra (http://elliptic.space) is a mathematician at the University of Waterloo. Henry Y ...
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insideQuantum tells the human stories behind cutting-edge developments in quantum technology, with the aim of highlighting the diverse range of people behind the amazing discoveries powering the quantum revolution. Each episode features a different guest, chosen from a wide variety of backgrounds, jobs and career stages, including guests from both academia and industry. Over the course of a 30-40 minute chat we'll hear all about their story, and how they got to where they are now. What got t ...
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S2E12 - Quantum Thermodynamics with Jake Xuereb
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Send us a Text Message. How is quantum information connected with thermodynamics, and what can it tell us about the inner workings of quantum computers? Take a listen to Season 2, Episode 12 of insideQuantum to find out! This week, Jake Xuereb, a PhD student at the Technical University of Vienna, tells us all about his work in quantum thermodynamic…
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S2E11 - Quantum Cryptography with Dr Mina Doosti
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Send us a Text Message. How can we use quantum mechanics to generate unbreakable encryption? Take a listen to Season 2, Episode 11 of insideQuantum to find out! This week, Dr Mina Doosti, a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, tells us all about her work in quantum cryptography, and what it will take to make the communications system…
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S2E10 - Quantum Communications with Dr Sumeet Khatri
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Send us a Text Message. How could quantum mechanics revolutionalise our communications? Take a listen to Season 2, Episode 10 of insideQuantum to find out! This week, Dr Sumeet Khatri, a postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin, tells us all about the fast-paced research area of quantum communications, and explains to us how science-fict…
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S2E9 - Practical Quantum Computing with Dr Alex Moylett
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Send us a Text Message. What are the obstacles on the path towards finding practical uses for quantum computers? Take a listen to Season 2, Episode 9 of insideQuantum to find out! This week, Dr Alex Moylett, a Senior Quantum Scientist at Riverlane, tells us all about their work in determining what current-generation quantum computers are good for, …
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S2E8 - Quantum Complexity with Dr Henry Yuen
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Send us a Text Message. What can complexity theory tell us about the capabilities of near-future quantum devices? Take a listen to Season 2, Episode 8 of insideQuantum to find out! This week, Dr Henry Yuen, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University tells us all about his work in complexity theory, how concepts from complexit…
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S2E7 - Quantum Machine Learning with Dr Kosuke Mitarai (御手洗光祐)
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Send us a Text Message. What can quantum mechanics bring to machine learning? Take a listen to Season 2, Episode 7 of insideQuantum to find out! This week, Dr Kosuke Mitarai (御手洗光祐) tells us about his experience at the cutting edge of quantum machine learning, the development of quantum circuit learning and being a co-founder of the startup QunaSys…
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S2E6 - Creating the Quantum Community with Junye Huang (黄俊晔)
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Send us a Text Message. How can we create the community of talented people who will build, program, and use the next generation of quantum computers? Take a listen to Season 2, Episode 6 of insideQuantum to find out! This week, Junye Huang (黄俊晔) tells us about his journey from materials science to quantum computer – as well as his experience making…
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S2E5: Superconducting Qubits with Dr Yvonne Gao
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Send us a Text Message. Do superconducting qubits hold the solution to making quantum computing practical? Take a listen to Season 2, Episode 5 of insideQuantum to find out! This week, Dr Yvonne Gao explains one of the key technologies behind the latest developments in quantum computing, and tells us why superconducting qubits have become a widely-…
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S2E4: The Future of Quantum Computing with Dr Oliver Brown
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Send us a Text Message. What can quantum computers really do for us? Take a listen to Season 2, Episode 4 of insideQuantum to find out! This week, Dr Oliver Brown takes us on a journey through the hype surrounding quantum computing and find out just what they can and can’t do - and why they’ll never entirely replace classical computers. Dr Brown ob…
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S2E3: Quantum Materials with Dr Jennifer Fowlie
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Send us a Text Message. What does it take to make the materials that next-generation quantum technologies will be made of? Take a listen to Season 2, Episode 3 of insideQuantum to find out! This week we're featuring Dr Jennifer Fowlie, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University and the Stanford Institute f…
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S2E2: Randomized Benchmarking with Dr Ellen Derbyshire
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Send us a Text Message. How can a completely random process be used to test the accuracy of quantum computers? This week we're featuring Dr Ellen Derbyshire, a postdoctoral researcher at the Dahlem Centre for Complex Quantum Systems, Freie Universität Berlin. Dr Derbyshire obtained her PhD from the University of Edinburgh before taking up her curre…
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S2E1: Dual-Unitary Circuits with Dr Pieter Claeys
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Send us a Text Message. What are exactly solvable quantum systems, and why are they interesting? Take a listen to Season 2, Episode 1 of insideQuantum to find out! This week we're featuring Dr Pieter Claeys, a research group leader in the Dynamics of Quantum Information Group at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden…
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Send us a Text Message. In this special episode of insideQuantum, we look back on our first season and take another listen to highlights of the 12 episodes that made up Season 1. We've come a long way in such a short space of time - thank you so much to everyone who's listened and made our first series such a success. We hope you're looking forward…
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Send us a Text Message. Many machine learning techniques have been developed to run in an efficient way on classical computers, but what could we gain from designing them around biological brains instead, and how might these methods tell us something new about quantum systems? Take a listen to Episode 12 of insideQuantum to find out! This week we’r…
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Send us a Text Message. How can quantum computers be combined with conventional supercomputing facilities, and where will the infrastructure come from to support the future quantum computing ecosystem? Take a listen to Episode 11 of insideQuantum to find out! This week we’re featuring Dr Alba Cervera-Lierta, a Senior Researcher at the Barcelona Sup…
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Send us a Text Message. How can industry learn how to speak the language of quantum physics, and where will businesses of the future find people to work in the rapidly growing number of quantum technology jobs? Take a listen to Episode 10 of insideQuantum to find out! This week we're featuring Dr Araceli Venegas-Gomez, the founder of Quantum Resour…
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Send us a Text Message. How will quantum technologies revolutionise our communications, and what will the quantum internet look like? Take a listen to Episode 9 of insideQuantum to find out! This week we’re featuring Dr Viviana Villafañe, a George Foster Research Fellow at the Walter Schottky Institute and part of the Munich Centre for Quantum Scie…
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Send us a Text Message. How can cutting-edge quantum technologies designed for quantum simulation of materials be used to detect dark matter and gravitational waves? Take a listen to Episode 8 of insideQuantum to find out! This week we're featuring Dr Tiffany Harte, a Senior Research Associate in the Many-Body Quantum Dynamics group at the Departme…
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Send us a Text Message. What will it take to make quantum computing practical, and how can we make the most of different types of hardware for solving different problems? Take a listen to Episode 7 of insideQuantum to find out! This week we’re featuring Ieva Čepaitė, a PhD student at the University of Strathclyde in the Quantum Optics and Quantum M…
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Send us a Text Message. What do black holes have in common with quantum error correction? Take a listen to Episode 6 of insideQuantum to find out! This week we're featuring Dr Monica Kang, a Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Fellow at California Institute of Technology in the Particle Theory Group and Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics. Dr…
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Send us a Text Message. What does game development have in common with quantum physics? Take a listen to Episode 5 of insideQuantum to find out! This week we're featuring Dr Elliot Bentine, who was at the time of recording a senior postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, an experimental researcher working with ultracold atomic gases, a…
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Send us a Text Message. How can quantum computers be used to solve real-world problems in the financial world? Take a listen to Episode 4 of insideQuantum to find out! This week we’re featuring Prof. Román Orús, an Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Donostia International Physics Center in San Sebastián, Spain and Chief Scientific Officer of Mult…
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Send us a Text Message. What does it take to co-found a major new academic journal in quantum physics, while also being a leading researcher in the field? Take a listen to Episode 3 of insideQuantum to find out! This week we’re featuring Dr Lídia del Rio, a a researcher in quantum information at ETH Zurich and co-founder of the academic journal Qua…
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Send us a Text Message. What is quantum error correction, and why is it so vital for future quantum computers? Take a listen to Episode 2 of insideQuantum to find out! This week we’re featuring Dr Philippe Faist, a postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin. Dr Faist did his undergraduate degree and PhD at ETH Zurich, followed by a postdoc…
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Send us a Text Message. How do we understand the process of learning, and what does it have to do with quantum computers? Take a listen to Episode 1 of insideQuantum to find out! This week we’re featuring Dr Yihui Quek, a postdoctoral researcher and Humboldt Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin. Dr Quek did her undergraduate degree at MIT, followed b…
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004: Shallow quantum circuits with David Gosset
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The point of building quantum computers is that we expect them to be capable of things that classical computers aren't. But how can we prove that this is the case? In this episode we talk to David Gosset, a professor at the University of Waterloo, about his research on quantum advantage for shallow circuits. Hosts: Vincent Russo (vprusso.github.io)…
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003: Quantum certified deletion with Anne Broadbent
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Can you ever be sure that someone has deleted your data? Anne Broadbent (University of Ottawa) tells us about a protocol for "quantum certified deletion", where a recipient of your information can prove to you that they've deleted your information. We learn about her paper with Rabib Islam introducing quantum certified deletion and some of its poss…
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002: Quantum channel capacities with Debbie Leung
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Quantum channel capacities are known to exhibit counterintuitive properties (superadditivity and superactivation), which make them hard to calculate. In this episode we talk to Debbie Leung (Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo) about one of her favourite open problems, the capacity of the qubit depolarizing channel, as well as h…
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001: The origin of the Mermin-Peres magic square
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The Mermin-Peres magic square is a simple game which is at the heart of many results in quantum cryptography and quantum complexity theory. In this episode, we trace the origin of the Mermin-Peres square back to two short papers by N. David Mermin and Asher Peres. Mermin's paper: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.3373 Peres' paper: https://doi…
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