quantum computer

“And in particular, what we're going to be doing with quantum computers and, you know, the other quantum technologies that are Becoming increasingly sophisticated in the next couple of decades is we'll be able to control very well, highly entangled, complex qua…”

“RSA, which is one of the ones that's widely used, as typically practiced today, the, to break it, you'd have to do something like factor a number, which is Over 2000 bits long to 20 48. And that's, you know, that's too hard to do now. But that's what quantum c…”

“We think in a couple of years we'll have devices with about 50 qubits to a hundred, and we'll be able to control them pretty well, and that's an interesting range, because even though it's only 50 to a hundred qubits, doesn't sound like that big a deal, but th…”

“We have algorithms that have been proposed, but, which we can't really run currently, because our quantum computers aren't big enough, on the scale that's needed to solve problems really, people really care about.”

“The Ones which will affect everyday life, I think, are better methods for understanding and inventing new materials, new chemical compounds. Things like that can be really important. You know, if you find a better way of capturing carbon by designing a better …”

“I don't think, though I could be wrong, that we're likely to have quantum computers that can break those public key cryptosystems in 10 years. But in 50 years? Seems not unlikely.”

“There's no point, if you think you've got a clever idea for what to use a quantum computer for, and that's going to change the world, if your idea involves much less than 50 qubits, you're wrong. Because, ah, you may have a very nice idea, but what we would do…”

“So, 45 qubits required 0.5. This wasn't my work. This was work elsewhere in the community. It required 0.5 half a petabyte of RAM, basically.”

“And in fact, this network approach is, I think the only one that if you wanted to Manhattan project it, right, or moonshot it, you're one of these big projects that have happened in the past where you have a goal that's extremely challenging and you just decid…”

“What we've worked out on paper is stuff that needs pretty big computers, and we don't know how long it would take to get there. You know, maybe, hopefully not decades, but it could take definitely more than a decade to get to the point where we have millions o…”

“Especially something called the Kataev surface code, which is, at the moment, the go-to solution for how we would build a quantum computer.”

“What changed everything for most of us in the nineties was the discovery of quantum error correction, right? And quantum fault tolerance. The upshot of which was if you want to build a scalable quantum computer, you don't need to get perfect qubits. That are p…”

“Maybe the most important application that we know about is just giving us this new way to simulate nature, simulate physics and chemistry, and maybe discover new drugs, discover new materials, right?”

“The entire hope of getting a speed advantage from a quantum computer is to exploit the way that amplitudes work differently. It's to try to choreograph a pattern of interference Where for each wrong answer to your computational problem, like some of the paths …”