Quantum Willow with John Schanck and Samuel Jacques

Security Cryptography Whatever

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)

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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)