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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

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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.