In which I play a select segment from Nonlocal: a quantum computing podcast: https://nonlocal.libsyn.com/ ----- Nonlocal’s show notes: https://nonlocal.libsyn.com/001-the-origin-of-the-mermin-peres-magic-square 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://...
Mar 08, 2021•12 min•Season 2Ep. 20
In which I refresh the list I gave a while back and actually make good on the promise of talking about ALL the frameworks (because I speedrun 2 lists of them at the end of the show) Silq: https://silq.ethz.ch/ Qiskit: https://qiskit.org/ Junye Huang Interview: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Junye-Huang---Episode-12-Interview-edec3o PyQuil: https://github.com/rigetti/pyquil Pennylane: https://pennylane.ai/ Q#: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/overview-what-is-qsharp-...
Mar 01, 2021•42 min•Season 2Ep. 19
In which Matthew Weiss and I talk about quantum spheres and Amir Ebrahimi and I talk about visualizing pulse generation. Spheres on Github: https://github.com/heyredhat/spheres Matt’s website: https://heyredhat.github.io/ Brooklyn Quantum Computing Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/brooklyn_quantum/ IBM Open Science Prize: https://www.ibmquantumawards.com/#/event Qiskit Pulse: https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-quantum-hardware/calibrating-qubits-pulse.html Rigetti Quil-T Waveforms: https://pyquil-docs...
Feb 18, 2021•42 min•Season 2Ep. 18
In which Brandon and I spend a while chatting about his experience with the Quantum Open Source Foundation Mentorship program (which you can apply for now!), and the project he worked on as part of that. Make sure you listen until we start trying to describe code over audio ;) APPLY FOR THE QOSF MENTORSHIP PROGRAM NOW: https://qosf.org/qc_mentorship/ Coding with Qiskit Season 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1NZC5rqQD8&list=PLOFEBzvs-Vvp2xg9-POLJhQwtVktlYGbY SuperPostion: https://www.yout...
Feb 01, 2021•48 min•Season 2Ep. 17
In which Mike and I talk about the reasons trust is so important in bitcoin & blockchain, how quantum computers could erode that trust, and why QRL allows that trust to be maintained, even in the face of a quantum threat. Blog with a little talk about quadratic speedup maybe not being enough: https://www.zapatacomputing.com/q2b-2020-in-8-minutes/ QRL YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/QRLedger QRL Website: https://www.theqrl.org/ QRL Discord: https://discord.gg/jBT6BEp VQA overview: https://...
Dec 28, 2020•51 min•Season 2Ep. 16
In which David Gunnarsson and I talk about Dilution Refrigerators and what Bluefors does. What does Bluefors do? They make Dilution Refrigerators. Bluefors on thequantumdaily.com: https://thequantumdaily.com/?s=bluefors Bluefors website: https://bluefors.com/ Bluefors Twitter: https://twitter.com/bluefors_ltd Bluefors YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCazdtsAB-MFq3uyDEY7Ttdg/videos Dilution Refrigerators on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_refrigerator Bluefors horizonta...
Dec 20, 2020•42 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Amir (VP of R&D at Classiq, a quantum software startup) and I talk about how Quantum Volume is measured and how we in the public should interpret the results that come from it. While the metric does have some flaws, it’s still a good general-purpose single-number way to compare devices. IBM announces 65 qubit machine: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2020/09/hardware-aware-quantum/ IBM Planning on 1000 (physical) qubits by 2023: https://thequantumdaily.com/2020/09/15/ibms-quantum-roadmap-p...
Dec 01, 2020•50 min•Season 2Ep. 14
An excellent talk with an excellent person! Learn all about what IBM’s been up to recently! Link to QCN show type poll: https://surveyjs.io/published?id=559dac01-5ce1-450a-8aea-b639311758cb IBM and Unitary Fund: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/11/ibm-and-the-unitary-fund-unite-for-open-source-projects-for-quantum-computing/ Qiskit quantum optimization module: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2020/07/quantum-optim-module/ Qiskit Metal: https://thequantumdaily.com/2020/10/19/qiskit-metal...
Nov 10, 2020•46 min•Season 2Ep. 13
QED-C survey of life sciences companies: https://quantumconsortium.org/almost-one-third-of-life-science-companies-set-to-begin-quantum-computing-evaluation-this-year/ NSF starting 3 quantum institutes: https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/announcements/072120.jsp QED-C website: https://quantumconsortium.org/ Zapata Computing website: https://www.zapatacomputing.com/ IBM Q Experience: https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/ MIT OpenCourseWare QC course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-4...
Sep 29, 2020•48 min•Season 2Ep. 12
What is the role of higher education in QC?: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.16444.pdf QOSF mentorship program open for applications: https://www.qosf.org/qc_mentorship Optimization on Sycamore processor paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.04197.pdf Reachability Deficits in quantum approximation paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.09148.pdf Michał’s email: michal@qosf.org Michał’s blog: https://www.mustythoughts.com/ Michał’s Github: https://github.com/mstechly Michał’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com...
Sep 05, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Quantum Xchange website: https://quantumxc.com/ Quantum Xchange linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/quantum-xchange/ Quantum Xchange twitter: https://twitter.com/Quantum_Xchange NIST PQC enters selection round: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2020/07/nists-post-quantum-cryptography-program-enters-selection-round China’s Micius satellite sets new record: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-reaches-new-milestone-in-space-based-quantum-communications/ DOE quantum internet ...
Aug 30, 2020•51 min•Season 2Ep. 10
I had a great time talking with Dr. Zlatko Minev in this episode! We got to talk about new quantum physics, error correction, and qiskit community, as well as quantum mechanics for doing the dishes Qiskit community: https://github.com/qiskit-community Zlatko’s twitter: https://twitter.com/zlatko_minev Zlatkos’s website: https://www.zlatko-minev.com/ Open Labs’ website: https://theopenlabs.org/ Computerphile error correction series: https://invidio.us/playlist?list=PLvc8eb5AdU4fPkWSJVLip-g9wcSO6M...
Aug 10, 2020•59 min•Season 2Ep. 9
I had an excellent, thoroughly entertaining, and long chat with Peter Johnson from Zapata Computing. We got to talk a lot about VQE, quantum advantage, and new algorithms that try to squeeze performance out of quantum hardware. Zapata Paper Announcement video (MUST WATCH): https://youtube.com/watch?v=RifDO1zBYjI arXiv link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09350 A Quantum Festschrift for David Poulin: https://www.cifar.ca/cifarnews/2020/06/17/a-quantum-festschrift-for-david-poulin Qiskit blog...
Aug 03, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Ethan talks with Nathan Shammah about unitary fund, open science, and science communication Unitary Fund link: https://unitary.fund/ Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://minds.com/1ethanhansen 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com https://thequantumdaily.com/...
Jul 13, 2020•41 min•Season 2Ep. 7
In this episode I sit down with Johan Vos to talk about his new book Quantum Computing for Developers Manning affiliate link: http://www.manning.com/?a_aid=Quantum-Computing-Now Johan’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/johanvos Affiliate link to book: https://www.manning.com/books/quantum-computing-for-developers?a_aid=Quantum-Computing-Now&a_bid=8d4decc3 Strange on Github: https://github.com/qcjava/strange Quantum Computing for the Very Curious: https://quantum.country/ Paper on higher educatio...
Jul 05, 2020•32 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Ethan and Anisha Musti chat about what’s going on in the world of quantum, and Ethan learns a thing or two about quantum machine learning. Anisha’s Medium: https://medium.com/@anishamusti Anisha’s Website: http://anishamusti.com/ Anisha’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/anishamusti Q-munity website: https://www.qmunity.tech/ Anisha on The Quantum Daily: https://thequantumdaily.com/user/anisham/?profiletab=posts AlphaZero for Quantum: https://phys.org/news/2020-01-alphazero-quantum-world.html Tensor...
Jun 23, 2020•54 min•Season 2Ep. 5
In this episode Ethan relinquishes the reigns to a guest: Quantum Intuition! Quantum Intuition channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-2knDbf4kzT3uzWo7iTJyw My first video on Quantum Intuition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NulBqfeWHPc My takeover video on Quantum Intuition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DF1uAOubPc Daniel on The Quantum Daily: https://thequantumdaily.com/user/dncolomer/?profiletab=posts Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://twitter.com/1ethanhanse...
May 29, 2020•31 min•Season 2Ep. 4
I had the opportunity to sit down (virtually) with Anastasia Marchenkova, a QC researcher/programmer/does-everything-extraordinaire at Bleximo to talk about how quantum computing has progressed, where it's going, and how it can be leveraged in the short term with NISQ devices Anastasia’s website: https://www.amarchenkova.com/ Anastasia’s twitter: https://twitter.com/amarchenkova Bleximo’s website: https://bleximo.com/ Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://twitter.com/1etha...
May 18, 2020•36 min•Season 2Ep. 3
In this episode I sit down with Junye Huang, a Quantum Developer Advocate for Qiskit and IBM. We talked a bit about hackathons, a bit about quantum materials, a bit about topological qubits, really a bit about everything! Junye on twitter: https://twitter.com/HuangJunye Qiskit on Twitter: https://twitter.com/qiskit Join the Qiskit slack and send me a ‘hi’ : https://qiskit.slack.com/ Qiskit YouTube (invidious mirror): https://www.invidio.us/channel/UClBNq7mCMf5xm8baE_VMl3A My TQD article: https:/...
Apr 30, 2020•38 min•Season 2Ep. 2
In this episode I sit down with Abe Asfaw to talk about all things qiskit, quantum computing education, and quantum programming. Oh and I hope you like interviews because I have a lot coming up :) Qiskit Textbook: https://qiskit.org/textbook/preface.html Coding with Qiskit: https://www.invidio.us/playlist?list=PLOFEBzvs-Vvp2xg9-POLJhQwtVktlYGbY Pulse Level Programming with Lauren Capelluto: https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=ZvipHRY-URs Qiskit website: https://qiskit.org/ Abe on Twitter: https://twi...
Apr 17, 2020•34 min•Season 2Ep. 1
The world is ending! I’m quitting podcasting! Quantum computing is still cool! Wait what do you mean we aren’t playing two truths and a lie? Oh and I forgot to mention, my brother did the updated cover art for season 2. Thank you! https://twitter.com/1ethanhansen 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com https://thequantumdaily.com/ Happy April Fools’ Day!...
Apr 02, 2020•3 min
Dancing with Qubits by Robert Sutor: https://www.robertsutor.com/dancing-with-qubits/ Blog post on IBM Q readout: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2020/01/quantum-limited-amplifiers/ AXIOM: The Scientific Computation System https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0387978550/acmorg-20 The Quantum Daily’s review of Dancing with Qubits: https://thequantumdaily.com/2020/01/09/dancing-with-qubits-serves-as-a-guide-for-the-quantum-curious-and-the-quantum-serious/ Follow me on twitter: https://twitte...
Feb 17, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Can you even call it "news" if it's 3 months old? Maybe it should be tagged with [olds] Blanket of light https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6463/369 https://phys.org/news/2019-10-blanket-quantum.html Volkswagen https://www.volkswagen-newsroom.com/en/press-releases/volkswagen-optimizes-traffic-flow-with-quantum-computers-5507 Google’s Paper: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1666-5 https://youtu.be/FklMpRiTeTA IBM’s response: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09534v2 https://www.ibm.com/blogs/r...
Jan 13, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 8
From Qiskit to QuTiP, from Cirq to Ocean SDK, there are a lot of different frameworks to start with quantum computing out there. Which one you should start with can get confusing. In this episode I hope to break down and give an overview of the major players that you’ll hear about in the quantum community. Qiskit https://qiskit.org/ https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-textbook QuTiP http://qutip.org/ https://github.com/qutip Q# https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/quant...
Dec 02, 2019•33 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Qiskit Camp 101 by Amira Abbas: https://medium.com/@amyami187/qiskit-camp-101-b386e9377e4f Follow Amira Abbas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmiraMorphism Supervised Learning with Quantum Computers: https://www.amazon.com/Supervised-Learning-Quantum-Computers-Technology/dp/3319964232 QuantumFight2019 stuff: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/10/on-quantum-supremacy/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1666-5...
Nov 04, 2019•30 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Google Quantum Supremacy: Full paper here: https://www.inverse.com/article/59507-full-quantum-supremacy-paper Fortune report: https://fortune.com/2019/09/20/google-claims-quantum-supremacy/ The Verge report: https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/23/20879485/google-quantum-supremacy-qubits-nasa John Preskill on Quantum Supremacy: https://quantamagazine.org/john-preskill-explains-quantum-supremacy-20191002/ IBM 53 qubit machine https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/18/ibm-will-soon-launch-a-53-qubit-quantum-co...
Oct 21, 2019•34 min•Season 1Ep. 5
• General Info on post-quantum cryptography ◦ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography • Open Quantum Safe ◦ https://openquantumsafe.org/ ◦ https://github.com/open-quantum-safe • Bitcoin ◦ https://medium.com/fintech-kellogg/quantum-computing-is-it-the-end-of-the-blockchain-10fa7e222b0a • How many qubits to run Shor’s Algorithm ◦ https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/87345/how-many-qubits-are-needed-to-factor-2048-bit-rsa-keys-on-a-quantum-computer ◦ https://crypto.stackexch...
Sep 30, 2019•30 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Link to Dr. James Wootton’s Medium page: https://medium.com/@decodoku Link to Qiskit’s Medium page: https://medium.com/qiskit Link to Qiskit textbook: https://community.qiskit.org/textbook/ Produced in partnership with The Quantum Daily https://thequantumdaily.com...
Sep 14, 2019•17 min•Season 1Ep. 3
We've got a lot of news this week, some of which we couldn't get to because of time constraints. However, this episode contains a lot and a lot of it is really interested, so stay tuned! On two qubit speedy gates: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1381-2 https://phys.org/news/2019-07-two-qubit-gate-speediest-quantum.html https://youtu.be/BcsdCMix1ns On Neven's law: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/kocfkckguq On qudits: https://futurism.com/forget-qubits-quantum-scientists-building-qudi...
Aug 05, 2019•24 min•Season 1Ep. 2
What even is a Quantum Computer? What is a qubit? Does Ethan even know what he's talking about? {SPOILER} No one does... Frame of Essence video on how QC works: https://youtu.be/ZoT82NDpcvQ Minutephysics video on Shor’s Algorithm: https://youtu.be/lvTqbM5Dq4Q Hello Quantum from IBM: https://helloquantum.mybluemix.net/ Decodoku - Quantum Error Correction: https://decodoku.itch.io/decodoku Crash Course Computer Science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpIctyqH29Q&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNlUrzyH5r6jN9...
Jul 22, 2019•38 min•Season 1Ep. 1
