Senior Research Scientist at Quantinuum, Dr. Brian DeSalvo, led a disscussion based on his experence, background, and role at one of the fastest developing quantum computing companies in the United States as of today. We disscussed what it is researchers in the industry are looking for in their workforce, as well as many of the exciting scientific developments that Quantinuum has accomplished and layed out for the future.
Abstract: The holy-grail of quantum technologies will be to build a large-scale universal fault-tolerant quantum computer – one where the quantum states live exponentially longer the larger it is. Reaching this limit and exploiting these new long-lived quantum states are enormous challenges for science and engineering. Despite spectacular progress on this front in the last few years, there remain significant hurdles to overcome in scaling the current small-scale devices to a size that will allow real computational advantage. I will discuss strategies that are being explored to overcome some of these scaling issues, with a focus on technologies that exploit the well-tested fabrication advantages of the semiconductor industry.
Quantinuum has recently unveiled a roadmap for acheiving fully fault-tolerant quantum computing by 2030. You can read more about this announcement here.
We have a newly elected QuTE executive board for the 2024-2025 academic year!