Quantum Willow with John Schanck and Samuel Jacques

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THE QUANTUM COMPUTERS ARE COMING...right? We got Samuel Jacques and John Schanck at short notice to answer that question plus a bunch of other about error correcting codes, logical qubits, T-gates, and more about Google's new quantum computer Willow.
Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/12/18/quantum-willow
Links:
- https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantum-chip/
- https://research.google/blog/making-quantum-error-correction-work/
- https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/alphaqubit-quantum-error-correction/
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08449-y
- Sam’s ‘Landscape of Quantum Computing’ chart: https://sam-jaques.appspot.com/quantum\_landscape\_2024
- The above, originally published in 2021: https://sam-jaques.appspot.com/quantum\_landscape
- https://sam-jaques.appspot.com
- https://jmschanck.info/

"Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@davidcadrian)

Chapters

1. Quantum Willow with John Schanck and Samuel Jacques (00:00:00)

2. Advancements in Quantum Error Correction (00:00:12)

3. Classical Decoders in Quantum Computing (00:14:54)

4. Advancements in Quantum Gate Error Correction (00:28:17)

5. Resource States in Quantum Computation (00:36:55)

6. Future Prospects in Quantum Computing (00:43:05)

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