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Quantum Information

The episodes where the show explains Quantum Information from the ground up.

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  1. EP 55

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

    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.

    Why Spin Qubits Will Win the Quantum Race (Part 2)
  2. EP 54

    How Quantum Computing Actually Works (Part 1)

    Part I of our quantum computing deep dive traces the field from Bell and Feynman to Deutsch and Shor—and explains what quantum computers actually do differently from classical machines.

    How Quantum Computing Actually Works (Part 1)
Chapters from these episodes28
  1. EP 55 · 32:40The DiVincenzo criteria for a quantum computer
  2. EP 55 · 2:29:52How exchange-only qubits work
  3. EP 55 · 2:55:54Inside HRL’s integrated silicon quantum processor
  4. EP 54 · 4:31Why quantum computing needs a two-part series
  5. EP 54 · 8:42The biggest misconception about quantum computers
  6. EP 54 · 10:46Bell’s theorem and local realism
  7. EP 54 · 19:36Experimental tests of Bell’s inequality
  8. EP 54 · 25:57Landauer: information is physical
  9. EP 54 · 28:27Why quantum logic must be reversible
  10. EP 54 · 32:05Bennett, Toffoli and reversible computation
  11. EP 54 · 34:46Quantum money and the birth of quantum information
  12. EP 54 · 40:19Why simulate physics with a quantum computer?
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  1. EP 54 · 43:41Why classical simulation explodes
  2. EP 54 · 48:24The idea of a quantum bit
  3. EP 54 · 1:06:24David Deutsch and universal quantum computing
  4. EP 54 · 1:12:17Google Willow and the multiverse claim
  5. EP 54 · 1:14:19Deutsch–Jozsa: the first quantum algorithm
  6. EP 54 · 1:20:04Classical vs. quantum solution
  7. EP 54 · 1:22:29Superposition enters the computation
  8. EP 54 · 1:26:15The double-slit experiment as a computer
  9. EP 54 · 1:29:25Feynman’s path-integral intuition
  10. EP 54 · 1:36:15How interference performs a computation
  11. EP 54 · 1:46:58Simon’s algorithm
  12. EP 54 · 1:49:51Peter Shor changes everything
  13. EP 54 · 1:53:14Factoring and cryptography
  14. EP 54 · 1:55:41Quantum computing becomes a national-security problem
  15. EP 54 · 1:58:37Post-quantum cryptography
  16. EP 54 · 2:02:24What quantum computers may actually be good for