Silicon: quantum computing’s underdog

8:54technologies have been members of like the premier league of quantum tech >> the premier league of quantum >> get in yeah and silicon has been like the underdog like what's the what's the >> championship the champion >> under the premier league the championship >> the champ so what's under championship >> oh uh uh we'll just say third division Yeah. Yeah. I would say Silicon has been like it hasn't even been in the championship. The Premier League, the Championship, and then there's one more and everyone's going to hate me for not remembering this. >> We've been We've been like Rexom, >> you know? You know, the Ryan Reynolds thing. [laughter] Yeah. Yeah. There's been like like it's been like Manchester United, >> uh Arsenal and Chelsea or Chelsea. They

9:34that's been superconducting circuits, trapped ions, and neutral atoms. And then silicon has kind of been like Rexom. >> Okay. No, that's really good. who's who's basically every season Yeah. gone up. >> It's gone up from being in non-league play, which is like below six anyway. >> Yeah. And um to really demonstrate that that world view, let me share a story with you. Okay. So, I'm going to bring you back to March Meeting 2026. We're going to go back to this event a lot, but the American Physical Society, APS, has a March meeting every year. I remember this. And um this 2026 I got to present on some of the work that actually contributed to my um getting on this paper. So I was giving a talk on behalf of HRL.

10:14There I am and I'm actually um wearing the FFP pod. >> Uh that that was I think the first like sweater that we had made to like try out like whether merch would work. And so I had the platonic solids and I was wearing it. I was representing [snorts]