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Alex Keesling & Nate Gemelke (QuEra): Why analog neutral atoms may reach fault tolerance first

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November 10, 2022
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Alex Keesling, CEO, and Nate Gemelke, CTO of QuEra, a company building quantum computers based on neutral atoms with a unique analog quantum computation mode, are interviewed by Yuval Boger. Alex, Nate, and Yuval discuss why QuEra chose a different path toward universal, fault-tolerant quantum computers, the significance of recent qubit shuttling experiments, what they learned from the Amazon Braket integration, and much more.

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Alex Keesling
Nate Gemelke
Co-founder, Chief Technology Strategist, QuEra
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Alex Keesling & Nate Gemelke (QuEra): Why analog neutral atoms may reach fault tolerance first

November 10, 2022
26:34
min
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Overview

Alex Keesling, CEO, and Nate Gemelke, CTO of QuEra, a company building quantum computers based on neutral atoms with a unique analog quantum computation mode, are interviewed by Yuval Boger. Alex, Nate, and Yuval discuss why QuEra chose a different path toward universal, fault-tolerant quantum computers, the significance of recent qubit shuttling experiments, what they learned from the Amazon Braket integration, and much more.

Read the full transcript or listen to the episode here.


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Guests

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Alex Keesling
Nate Gemelke
Co-founder, Chief Technology Strategist, QuEra

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