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DECODE QUANTUM is a show hosted by Fanny Bouton, Olivier Ezratty. We are hearing from key players in quantum technology in order to better understand the issues and impacts on society.DECODE QUANTUM est une émission animée par Fanny Bouton, Olivier Ezratty. Nous recevons les acteurs clés du quantique afin de mieux en comprendre les enjeux et impacts sur la société.
Olivier Ezratty asks where the light goes; you get quantum hardware without the hand waving.
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A serious return that links photonic quantum architecture with the practical realities of going public.
Decode Quantum returns from a seven-month break with a focused conversation about Christian Whitbrook's route into quantum technology and the architecture behind Xamadu's photonic approach.
A grounded conversation about quantum algorithms, measurement limits, and hard life-science problems.
Quantum computing is measured here against the hard constraints of life science: noisy devices, statistical limits, and research problems where current classical methods can struggle.
A practical look at how laser engineering supports cold-atom quantum systems.
Lasers are often the quiet machinery behind quantum technology, and this episode keeps that machinery in view. Wilhelm Kenders, Toptica's president, CTO, and co-founder, traces the company's path from its 1998 founding to the cold-atom systems its lasers help make possible…
A grounded conversation about controlling trapped-ion qubits and making quantum computing more affordable.
Decode Quantum turns a conversation with Chris Balance into a clear look at trapped-ion quantum computing as a practical engineering challenge.
A grounded look at NV-centered quantum sensors as practical tools for high-resolution magnetic imaging.
Mathieu Munch brings a grounded origin story to a technical subject, tracing his interest in astronomy, astrophysics, and quantum ideas through to the co-founding of QNAMI.
Big physics questions, answered between the puns.
Recorded PhD summer-school lectures from LMU Munich's Arnold Sommerfeld Center on quantum computing.
Theoretical physics, patiently brought to the board.
Curious physics, explained in motion.
["Christian Whitbrook says Xanadu's photonic road map now points to hundreds of logical qubits in three to five tennis-court-sized spaces, with tens of megawatts and a few hundred racks.", "Olivier Esrati and Fanny spend Decode Quantum episode 85 on GKP qubits, measurement-based quantum computing, and the one-megahertz decoder behind Aurora.", "Christian traces the company path from CypherQ's 2014 continuous-variable QKD work to Xanadu in 2016, after investors pushed him toward quantum computing.", "The conversation also covers the 2022 Nature Gaussian boson sampling result, PennyLane, Catalyst, and the software stack for compilation and resource estimation."]
["Sabrina Maniscalco says her quantum path began with astronomy at 15, encyclopedias about the origin of the universe, and a telescope in the Sicilian countryside.", "Decode Quantum's Olivier Zratti, described as the show's \"Sherpa of Quantum,\" and co-host Franigas frame her as Algorithmic's CEO, co-founder, and University of Helsinki professor after posts in Sofia, Durban, Turku, and Edinburgh.", "She traces her PhD to Schrodinger cat states with cavity quantum electrodynamics and trapped ions, then to open quantum systems and non-Markovian dynamics.", "The discussion turns to Algorithmic's digital quantum interface, its Aurora quantum-chemistry pipeline, and her claim that quantum advantage could appear next year."]
Decode Quantum episode 83 features Wilhelm Kaenders of Toptica discussing lasers for quantum technology, astrophysics, and European scaling.
["Chris Ballance uses Decode Quantum episode 82 to argue that trapped-ion quantum computers will scale only if the stack is engineered like a semiconductor program, not a laser lab.", "He is introduced as co-founder and CEO of Oxford A&S, a former Oxford physicist, and the founder with Tom Hardy of a company built around barium ions and CMOS-style control.", "Ballance revisits Oxford results that reached single-qubit errors in the low 10^-5 to high 10^-6 range, tens of seconds of coherence, and two-qubit fidelities around 99.9%.", "The discussion turns to time-to-solution, parallel readout, wafer-scale chips, and his claim that the system must be designed for standard foundries, not for elegant whiteboard drawings."]
["Decode Quantum episode 81 has Olivier Esrati and Fanny interviewing QNAMI CEO and co-founder Mathieu M\u00fcnch about NV-center sensing and the company he launched in Basel.", "M\u00fcnch says a 1996 Science et Vie teleportation article, plus a high-school physics teacher's advice, pulled him from astronomy toward quantum physics.", "He traces the path through Classe Pr\u00e9paratoire, Ecole d'Ing\u00e9nieur, Institut N\u00e9el in Grenoble, CEA, and the University of Basel before QNAMI incorporated in 2017.", "The practical payoff is a room-temperature diamond sensor and desktop microscope that he says can improve magnetic imaging from roughly 100 nanometers to 10-20 nanometers for university labs and semiconductor R&D."]
Interview with Sebastian Weiss, CEO of Universal Quantum, discussing his background and the company's quantum computing technology.
Interview with co-founders of quantum startup SICK about their superconducting control electronics for qubits.
This episode features interviews with three early-career researchers discussing their work in quantum computing and the current maturity of the field.
Interview with Nobel laureate Bill Phillips about his work on laser cooling and trapping of atoms, recorded at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.
Interview with Nobel laureate David Wineland about his work in quantum optics and ion trap quantum computing.