HPR3455: Podcast Recommendation: IBM and Quantum computing

Summary: Moore's Lobby Ep. 34 | The Latest from the Lab: How IBM Research Is Inventing What's Next https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/podcast/ep-34-the-latest-from-the-lab-how-ibm-research-is-inventing-whats-next Rss feed: https://eetech.libsyn.com/rss Interview with Dr. Jeffrey Welser VP of Exploratory Science at IBM Research IBM Release first 2nm chip this year Engineers vs Scientists and how they drive innovations Goal to replace the transistor when Moore's Law stops scaling Managing thermal loads Finding new structures and materials to control current Neural nets, image recognition and AI Quantum computing Discussion starts at 34:35 into the podcast Richard Feynman, Early 80's http://www.feynman.com qubits superposition state "Spooky action at a distance" Encryption Need millions of qubits to break current encryption Only currently over 100 qubits At least a decade from having enough qubits Currently have classical systems that cannot be broken by quantum computers The math does not map onto a quantum system Currently working with NIST to create quantum safe cryptography https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/Cryptographic-Standards-and-Guidelines Quantum chemistry Quantum chip - cooling and superconducting Dilution refrigerator Low temperature and pressure Top is 4 Kelvin, bottom gets to 15 milli Kelvin https://phys.org/news/2019-06-superconducting-quantum-refrigerator.html https://www.nist.gov/si-redefinition/kelvin-introduction Josephson junction It is the reference Volt as defined by NIST https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/physics-and-astronomy/josephson-junctions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephson_voltage_standard Use an IBM quantum computer online May 2016 the first quantum computer was put on the 'Net https://quantum-computing.ibm.com https://newsroom.ibm.com/2016-05-03-IBM-Makes-Quantum-Computing-Available-on-IBM-Cloud-to-Accelerate-Innovation 300,000 users https://qiskit.org/documentation Qiskit is open-source software for working with quantum computers at the level of circuits, pulses, and algorithms.