In Episode 19, Patrick and Ciprian speak with Peter McMahon of Cornell University.

Among other topics,  the team discuss from an academic perspective, the different ways to build a physical Quantum Computer and the qualifying characteristics of Quantum Computers according to the DiVincenzo criteria.

Peter McMahon is an assistant professor in Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University. His lab researches the physics of computation, including quantum computing. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2014, and was a postdoctoral researcher in Applied Physics at Stanford until joining Cornell in 2019. Lab website: http://mcmahon.aep.cornell.edu