Why Spin Qubits Will Win the Quantum Race (Part 2)
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The DiVincenzo criteria

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32:41In 2000, David Devvenenzo, he published um his famous five criteria. The the paper was titled the physical implementation of quantum computation. He was actually at the IBM Watson research center. >> That'll come back in the future. >> That'll come back. So the IBM has a a rich legacy in quantum computation. Um, so he wrote this paper and he wanted to lay down the baseline physics for what you need to build one of these things. Okay. Um, and it was brilliant for its time mostly because it was designed to politely tell the liquid state NMR crowd, the nuclear magnetic resonance crowd, hey, um, let's not pretend that your little physics experiment is

33:23actually a big step towards quantum computation. it was it was mostly like targeted specifically for these guys who were using NMR to say oh we've got like you know that we can use this as a cubit um in particular he was skeptical of approaches of this liquid state NMR quantum computing which in the late '90s 1990s um it had achieved small logic gates but highly mixed not fully pure quantum quantum states [clears throat] um so NMR could perform computation on let's say an ensemble of molecules but it couldn't even initialize ies a zero or a one. >> Mhm. >> Right. So Dvenenzo is writing there um and he explicitly includes the terms scalable

34:04>> Y >> fiducial which means pure initial state >> um and these are warning phrases that were pointed at the NMR crowd. >> Yeah. He's he's basically saying you you don't you don't have the juice. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Uh you can't like handwave your way out of not having the ability to scale and not having pure initial states. Exactly. Yeah. And so over 20 years on, the Dvenenzo criteria is still very relevant, but it's 2026 now. And um almost every modality can demonstrate a cubic cubit in a vacuum. Not everything can can do what Dvenenzo's criteria is doing. But you know, in line of Danchenzo targeting a specific >> um modality,

34:46>> you know, for the negative, >> yeah. >> Um we here at from first principles have created an FFP audit. >> Yes. that is going to also target a specific modality but in the positive. >> Yes. >> Right. Because we can do that. This is the FFP criteria. >> Um this is Dvenenzo 2.0. Um FFP criteria trademark pending >> pending. So don't come at us. We're going to sue you whether we got the legal system at our back. [laughter]

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Part II of our quantum computing deep dive compares the leading hardware architectures, and asks whether silicon’s greatest advantage is not simply making good qubits, but making quantum computers that can actually scale.